The banks are high and rocky, and some of the precipices to which the journal refers are of a vast perpendicular height.

On the Oregon side of the river are five cascades such as those which the journal mentions.

The most famous and beautiful of these is known as Multnomah Falls.

This cataract has a total fall of more than six hundred feet, divided into two sections.

The other cascades are the Bridal Veil, the Horsetail, the Latourelle, and the Oneonta, and all are within a few miles of each other.
On the ninth of April the voyagers reached the point at which they were to leave tidewater, fifty-six miles above the mouth of the Multnomah, or Willamette.