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Excerpt from Valley, Plain and Peak: Scenes on the Line of the Great Northern Railway
Astern washington is a panorama capa ble of expressing every form of scenic grand eur. There is ceaseless variety and no end to anomalies of nature in the wonderful stretch of country known as the Inland Empire, of which Spokane Falls is the centering gem. The beauty and usefulness of many cataracts ai mingled in the falls of the Spokane, the series having a descent of 157 feet in a half mile. Breaking away as the waters do from the level uplan they leap forward I over the steeps to be separated by projections of chg the suds-white waters boil and rush, the impulse of the near-by mountains still being strong within them as they do everything but tarry in their eagerness to reach the Columbia, and be part and parcel of that mighty river in its majestic sweep to the sea. The, city of Spokane has a population of its growth being a marvel even in the West, so noted for phoenix-like upbuilding of cities. Views of this.
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