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 rivulets pour over the cliffs, giving a silvery, cascade-like appearance to many places which, later, show dark and somberly grand. A short distance above the mouth of the Willamette river lies Fort Vancouver, a beautiful army post. It is the site of the old Vancouver of the Hudson’s Bay Company of which grand old Dr. McLoughlin was the chief factor, or superintendent, in the days when the Oregon question held the boards in congressional debates. At the mouth of the Columbia, nestled under the lea of Cape Disappointment, lies Fort Canby, another delightful army post, while on the opposite shore is Fort Stevens, and at Chinook Point, across from Astoria, is Fort Columbia. On the lower river Mount Coffin, an old Indian burying-ground below the mouth of the