and those grand cathedrals which still remain the glory of Europe, in their pointed roofs, fretted arches, and long colonnades; their deep shadows, and windows of colored glass, staining the light they transmitted to the colors of Nature's choicest hues, were intended to express that solemn and subtile sense of beauty, which, in the presence of great Nature, lifts the heart above and away from mean or trivial considerations.
The Salemites have some other resorts than those already mentioned, in different soda-springs, in their own, and the adjoining county of Linn. In short, if the tourist has not remained in the heart of the Wallamet Valley long enough to find out for himself its resources for pleasure, as well as profit, he has done himself and the country an injustice. Of course all the resorts mentioned are frequented by residents of the adjoining counties on either side, and belong equally to all this portion of the State. It is, indeed, quite the custom for Oregonians, of every section, to make their summer excursions, quite as much as those city-bred pleasure-seekers who people Eastern watering-places every season.
About twenty miles above Salem the Wallamet receives the waters of the Santiam, a considerable stream, having its rise in the snows of Mount Jefferson. Lebanon, on the south fork of the Santiam, is a delightful spot, in the midst of a fine farming country. A few miles above Lebanon, at the falls of the Santiam, is another small town, with flouring and lumber-mills. Both of these places are the centres of a healthy business, dependent on agriculture and manufactures.
