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Rh that kind, and with its splendid water-power, backed by a country productive in soil, timber, and mineral deposits, its future seems as well assured as that of any town in Oregon.

Canemah, a mile or more above Oregon City, and ultimately to be a portion of it, was the upper landing when the People's Transportation Company used to transport their freight and passengers around the falls by a horse-railroad. It is rather a more favorable site for building than just about the falls, where a high bench of trap-formation crowds the lower portion of the town quite to the river-bank.

Opposite to Oregon City is another of those abortive attempts at a town for which this country is rather remarkable. Of this one, nothing now remains but one or two decayed buildings, and the name—Linn—after that Missouri Senator who introduced the Oregon Land Bill, of 1843, which occasioned the immigration of that year.

From Oregon City, for a distance of more than fifty miles by the river, there are no towns of any importance; though there are numerous "landings," where freight is put on or off for various places in the interior, indicating that there is a considerable population scattered through the valley. The scenery of the Wallamet is of rather a monotonous character, though pretty—the best portion of it being between Portland and Rock Island, above Oregon City a short distance. After this is passed, we begin to wish away the belt of timber which hides the level country back of it. It is not, however, until about twenty or twenty-five miles have been passed above Portland, that the prairie country commences; the lower portion of the Wallamet Valley toward the Columbia being heavily