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Poesy by a Native On inside back cover of James Clyman's Diary, 1 844-46 The Firrs their length their Extreme hight As yet remains in doubt But Tradition throws an obscur light That many had grown Quite out of sight Ere Hood Began to Sprout. An Address to Mount Hood On inside front cover Say mighty peak of tremendious hight What brot you forth to etherial light From Earths inmost deepest womb Was central earth so Jamd so pent That thou arose to give it vent Or for some other purpose sent A Monumental Tomb To shew that once in Licqid heat The Earth had flowed a burning sheet Of melted wavering fire That animation Flaming lay A molten Mixed wase rocks and clay When thou a bubble rose to play Above the funeral pyre. The Willamette Valley Notes on Oregon written in 1 845 to Dr. Elijah White. scenery in this I know I shall want Language. In rich ness and variety of Scenery this country cannot be surpassed, assend one of your smoothe Handsomely rounded eminences and you have at one glance all the variety of Scenery that nature ever produced, six or eight Heaven towring peaks