Location: 30 miles east of Portland, Oregon on our way to this
village we passed several beautifull cascades which fell from a
great hight over the stupendious rocks which cloles the river on
both sides nearly, except a small bottom on the South side in
which our hunters were encamped. the most remarkable of these
casscades falls about 300 feet perpendicularly over a solid rock
into a narrow bottom of the river on the south side. it is a
large creek, situated about 5 miles above our encampment of the
last evening. several small streams fall from a much greater
hight, and in their decent become a perfect mist which
collecting on the rocks below again become visible and decend a
second time in the same manner before they reach the base of the
rocks. — Meriwether Lewis, April 9, 1806 Multnomah Falls, a
magnificent two-tiered waterfall with a total height of 620
feet, is the top tourist attraction in Oregon, so it’s hard to
get a sense of how it must have appeared to Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark as they pas