| Benson and Highway Bridges. Unquestionably the queen of all American cataracts. The stream rises out of Larch Mountain, the famous viewpoint of the Cascades, to which a trail is built. It has many falls along its picturesque course and the climax of its dashing is the smashing leap it makes for union which the Columbia. There are in fact two falls. The first has s perpendicular of 600 feet and the waters pound into a circular basin with cannon like reverberations course swiftly under a slenderly arched bridge only to drop again almost 70 feet nearly to the level of the Columbia. |
