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Title: Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Colby, Eleanor Pfeiffer, F. W, ill Berry Brothers
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Publisher: Detroit : Berry Bros.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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We never knew before that ice can flow like water only much more slowly. Thecenter of a glacier moves down the mountain about 16 inches a day. There are tiny little insectsliving in this ice. We saw them through the microscope and they were hopping around as thoughtheir feet were cold. There are wee pink plants growing in the ice in some places and they makethe ice look rose colored. They are so small that you cannot see them without a miscrocope. Rainier Park is one of the famous wild flower gardens of the world. Blooming at the very edgeof the snow fields are miles and miles of wonderful flowers. There are daisies, columbine, larkspur,and many others and they are much taller and finer than those in common gardens. Grown-upstell us boys that if we associate with great people we shall grow to be like them, and perhaps theseflowers grow so big and tall from living so near Mount Rainier and the great cedars and firs. Wedo not wonder that this part of the park is called Paradise Valley.
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Fishing here on the Columbia River is not just a sport. It is a business which brings inmillions of dollars a year. There are single factories where a half a million cans of salmon are putup in one day, and over a hundred million dollars worth of salmon have been taken from theColumbia river since the white man first came here. The large salmon are called chinook, and one of these fish weighing eighty pounds is not anunknown thing, though their average weight is about twenty pounds. There are many small kindsof salmon, so the chinook is called the King of Salmon. The baby fish are hatched way up in the mountain streams and as they grow friskier andlarger, they swim down the stream into the Columbia river and on to the ocean where they stayabout four years till they are quite grown up. Then they get homesick for the scenes of theirchildhood, and, choosing their mates, they start back to a sort of home-coming. It takes a longtime, for the current is strong, but if they are lucky enough

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