Excerpt from The Mountaineer, Vol. 1: March, 1907 At the present stage of investiga tion, the geological history of our mountains cannot be wholly affirmed. It constitutes one of the most inter esting problems for the scientific stu dents of our state. In general terms it, may be said that the Cascades con sist of a core of granite and meta morphic rocks overlaid in places by enormous outflows of volcanic mat ter. Fire and frost and flood, those great architects, have wrought on a stupendous scale the framework of this somber, mysterious, sublime chain of mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.