Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


At Redding they crossed the Sacramento on a cable ferry, and made
a day's scorching traverse through rolling foot-hills and flat
tablelands. The heat grew more insupportable, and the trees and
shrubs were blasted and dead. Then they came again to the
Sacramento, where the great smelters of Kennett explained the
destruction of the vegetation.


They climbed out of the smelting town, where eyrie houses perched
insecurely on a precipitous landscape. It was a broad,
well-engineered road that took them up a grade miles long and
plunged down into the Canyon of the Sacramento. The road,
rock-surfaced and easy-graded, hewn out of the canyon wall, grew
so narrow that Billy worried for fear of meeting opposite-bound
teams. Far below, the river frothed and flowed over pebbly
shallows, or broke tumultuously over boulders and cascades, in
its race for the great valley they had left behind.

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