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water's surface was found to be 6,300 feet; and this remarkable lake is but 

 a short distance south of the forty-third degree of latitude. Capt. C. E. 

 Dutton, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has made an examination of the 

 lake and its surroundings, and gave a short sketch of it in the weekly 

 "Science" of New York, February 26, 1886, from which an extract was 

 published in the "Ausland" of Stuttgart, 1887, pp. 174, 175. 



On the west side of Mount Scott and Crater Lake rise tlie headwaters 

 of the North Fork of Rogue River, which run down the western slope, and 

 a narrow trail crosses the ridge south of the elevation. Northeast of it and 

 west of Walker's Range lies a vast level plain strewed with pulverized 

 pumice-stone, and forming the water-shed between the affluents of the 

 Klamath and those of Des Chutes River, a large tributar}^ of the Columbia. 



Upper Klamath Lake, witli its beautiful and varied Alpine scener}^, 

 verdant slopes, blue waters, and winding shores, is one of the most attractive 

 sights upon the reservation. Its principal feeder is Williamson River, a 

 water-course rising about thirty miles northeast of its mouth. After passing 

 through Klamath Marsh it pursues its winding course south through a canon 

 of precipitous hills, six miles in length; then reaches a wide, fertile valley, 

 joins Sprague River coming from Yaneks and the east, and after a course 

 of about sixty miles empties its volume of water into Upper Klamath Lake 

 near its northern end. The elevation of this lake was found to be about 

 eighty feet higher than that of Little Klamath Lake, which is 4,175 feet. 

 Wood River, with its affluent, Crooked River, is another noteworthy feeder 

 of the lake, whose shores are partly marsh}', partly bordered by prairies and 

 mountains. The lake is embellished by a number of pretty little islands, 

 is twenty-five miles long in an air-line, and varies between three and seven 

 miles in width. On the eastern shores the waters are more shallow than on 

 the western. 



The waters of the lake first empty themselves through Link River 

 (I-ulal6na), and after a mile's course fall over a rocky ledge at the town of 

 Linkville. From there onward the stream takes the name of Klamath 

 River. Passing through a marsh, it receives the waters of Little Klamath 

 Lake, then winds its circuitous way towards the Pacific Ocean through a 

 hilly and wooded country, canons, and rapids, innavigable for craft of any 



