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Giant trees, the underwood, and the ferns and mosses. Shadow, coolness, and moisture here, among the thick-standing, BrightĪs the weather was, and dry as the autumn had been, there was

Places, quite excluded the sun,-almost the light of day. Mountains, and the gorge of a creek, where the thick woods, in The road, however, for some distance, led through the Calapooya The Umpqua Valley, which I could imagine in its June freshness, was now sere w T ith the long drought of a rainless summer. Vain that we looked for its scarlet-flaming thickets fifty milesįarther south, and at a hundred miles it had disappeared from Southern limit of the beautiful vine-maple.

And, as we afterwards ascertained, this is nearly the Had I found them so brilliant as at the head of the Wallamet Radiant, on the Columbia and Lower Wallamet but nowhere Such gorgeousness of color never shone, out of the tropics, as the vine-maple, ash, and white-maple display, along the streams in this part of Oregon. They stood in their own shadow, and let his slant beams bridge the valleys between their royal heights, until they rested on the humbler foot-hills among which we were wending our way, and touched with a golden radiance the yellow leaves of the maples or silvered the ripples in the Wallamet water. The orb of day was not yet high enough to shine on the hither side of the peaks behind which he was mounting. From the most distant mountains, light-gray mists were rising in the middle distance was a purple interval on the nearer hills, rich, yellow sunlight. As the stage rattled out of town in the direction of the Umpqua, I took a last, lingering look at the fair, level valley encircling hills of russet-color, dotted with bits of green, in groups of oaks or pines of Spencer's Butte, with its sharp, dark-tinted cone and of the blue Cascades, now purpling under the morning sunrise. It was a clear, sharp, October morning, when I first left Eugene to go down into Southern Oregon. It covers an area of four thousand square miles. Douglas, and extending from the Cascade Range, in the direction of the Umpqua River, to the ocean, containing an extent of territory greater than any county of its age in the State, notwithstanding its boundaries have several times been altered. Crossing this divide, we enter the Umpqua Valley, or series of valleys, constituting Douglas County, named after Stephen A.

The Southern division of Western Oregon is separated from the Wallamet Valley by a range of low mountains known as the Calapooyas.

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