A STUDY OF DUCKS ABOVE THE CLOUDS 



By Tom A. Marshall 



The stalking trapper scales the stony height, 

 And daring soldier from the frontier fort 

 Climbs the steep cliff, and creeps from rock to rock. 

 And from some grassy rampart fires the shot. 



— IscMc McLellan. 



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OULDN'T you like to visit Crater Lake, an inland 

 body of water, resting placidly in the interior of 

 an extinct volcano, 6,177 feet above the level of 

 the Pacific Ocean? It nestles in the heart of the Cascade 

 Mountains in southern Oregon, and is accessible by an 

 Sl-mile automobile drive over the most excellent govern- 

 ment highway, through Crater Lake National Park. 



This is the most awe inspiring and remarkable inland 

 body of water in the known world. It is six miles across, 

 with an official depth of 1,996 feet. Its waters are clear 

 with a color shading from a dark midnight to a light ul- 

 tramarine blue^ — a lake in the top of a mountain, occupy- 

 ing the crater of a burnt out, but once active, volcano ! 

 It is of the ducks and their behavior above the clouds 

 that I am about to tell you. Birds in their migratory 



