Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1867-11-02

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infinite b,auiy and Infinite grandeur.
was on board a very pretty little
steamboat. in beautifully rounded nook
OF the lake no one and nothing stirring
about me-; the sun making in the breath
less blue air network of gold aud silver
upon the breast of the little harbor in
which We lay close up TO shore: a huge
pile opposite me of heavily.wooded granite,
ovcrtopping by a thousand feet and more,
the trees that fringcd the waters; a pro.
found quietudc pervadins the morning
dream and subduing the glory, with
which it was fraught and featured, into
the sofcst radience. Pines, frs, crdars
all of tho handsomcst glowth-camc
down in open order to the waters of the
basin in which the Mary Moody, swan
like, threw her white shadow then again
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cain opposite; while wild goose.brrries,
currents, service. berries, interviewer with
flowers and Towering shrubs, make n
thick underground about them, through
which was heard at times the rusiling of
the grouse, the grounds 1uirrcl, the rab-
bit, and such small deer.
The little harbor is over sixty feet in
depth, cold, clear aud of golden brown.
owing to the the trees so densely crowded
in upon it, and that noble mountoin over
hanging it; but so clear that, close TO the
gravelrd beach, where the water is fully
twenty feet in depth, the smallest trifrs.
from fish head to a broken saucer, are
shining discrrnibly. White fish, specklcd
and salmon trout, suckers, and other de-
lectablc swimmers swarm there, as they
do through the broader waters outside !;
and as the harbor is closely invested, the
Spokane and CGur d'Alene Indians. in
the winter months, surround and drive
the deer and other antlcred game into the
basin, where they slaughter them unmcr-
cifully. From the foot of the mountain
opposite-out from the roots of the lower
most trees that mount and crowd all over
it--a tiny stream. glistening as though it
were full of diamonds, and cold as the
coolest ice. splashcs into the waters Of
golden brown, having leaped to its last
home many hundred feet down from lodges
of broken granite. moss covered and piled
with whitened drift-wood Jutting into
the harbor and closing it up. apparently,
as one approaches the latter from the
lake itse'f .hcre rises beautifully shaped
mound, studded with tall trees, straight
and graceful as any sculptured columns.
but eloquent with light and music which
no metal, wood, or marble, however ex-
quisi,ely fashioned by the chisel is ever
fraught with. On this the pleasant own.
or Of the Mary Woody designs to have a
c.ttnge for his summer residence. and
heartily shall envy him the same.
Looking through the trees across the
neck that connects this mound or hilock
with ib- mainland, the pine-b built walls OF
Pend dOreille city fairly gli,terri in the
sunshin--such jewelry did the magic IF
the day extract from or imrart 10 the
paainest things that delightful morning
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