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reach from the Great Northern railroad on the north, and the Northern Pacific 

 on the south, is on the regular wagon road, is easily reached by steamboat, and 

 is but a short distance from the mouth of the Flathead river, which has abun- 

 dance of marshes and swamps. This is one of the few places on the lake where 

 suitable accommodations are to be had for board and lodging. 



During the past season a month was spent in the Mission mountains, which 

 extend north and south along the lake and Mission valley for a distance of nearly 

 a hundred miles. The southern end of the range has a number of high peaks, 

 the highest above ten thousand. The range slopes down toward the northern 

 end. This northern end has been ground off by a glacier, which has left undis- 

 putable proof of its work on the tops of the high hills. The range ends at the 

 Swan river, about where the laboratory is situated. 



One of the highest peaks at the southern end is Sin-yale-a-min mountain, the 

 Indian word meaning "surrounded." A ten days camp was made at the small 



FIG. 2. CANVAS BOAT DAPHNIA" WITH COLLECTING OUTFIT. 



lake at the base of this mountain, and called also Sin-yale-a-min lake. The lake 

 lies in the heart of the mountains, with high peaks on all sides except the west, 

 which is dammed up by an old moraine, though it is of recent geological origin. 



A general view of the camp at Sin-yale-a-min lake is given in Fig. 1. The 

 party at this place, all told, numbered twenty-one, and with one or two exceptions 

 all were engaged in some work. This lake is about fifteen miles from the near- 

 est point on the Northern Pacific railroad, and is in the Flathead Indian reserva- 

 tion. It is therefore primitively wild and romantic. 



The work on the lake was accomplished through the use of a fourteen-foot 

 canvas boat, which was taken with some misgivings, but which proved all that 

 was predicted for it by the makers. The boat, ready for use, is shown in Fig. '2. 

 the photograph being taken later at Swan lake when fixed ready for use. The 

 canvas boat carried heavy loads, having at one time four grown people and one 

 child, guns, ammunition, nets, and other material. In the illustration it is shown 



