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Cascades

  1. Mountain chain extending from British Columbia , Canada , south through Washington and Oregon to northern California . It is known for its many volcanoes .


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A riot of leaves walls off a bend in the river, a curtain of vines cascades from impossibly tall mango trees.

In its course, it has several beautiful, but low cascades, and terminates in a placid and delightful stream.

He loves the mountain stream, with its dashing rapids and cascades.

The sketches he painted in the Catskills—the banks, woods, rocks and the Cascades—gained recognition.

And after crossing the well-watered Cascades and Sierra Nevadas we find forest scenery entirely different.

Similar holes are met with in river beds at the foot of cascades, and under some other circumstances.

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