CRATER LAKE, OREGON 



4.] 



SOUTHERN SHORE OF CRATER LAKE, AS SEEN FROM KERR NOTCH. DUTTON CLIFF ON 

 THE LEFT; EAGLE CRAGS AND CASTLE CREST BEYOND THE PHANTOM SHIP 



From a photograph by J. S. Diller 



to the period wlien tlie tojiographic conditions in tliat region 

 were quite unlike those of today. They were carved out by 

 streams of ice and water descending from a point over the hike, 

 and their presence, ending as they do in the air thousands of 

 feet above the present water level, affords strong evidence in favor 

 of the former reality of Mount INIazama. 



The Phantom Ship is a cragg}^ little islet near the hortler of 

 the lake under Dutton cliff. Its rugged hull, with rocks tower- 

 ing like the masts of a ship, suggests the name, and, phantom- 

 like, it disappears when viewed in certain lights from the western 

 rim. Standing in line with an arete that descends from an angle 

 of the cliff, it possibly marks a continuation of the sharp spur 

 beneath the water, or ])orhaps, but much less liUely, it is a block 

 slid down from the cliff. Wliatever its history, it attracts every- 

 one by its l)eauty and winsomeness. 



At times of volcanic eruption the lava rises within the volcano 

 until it either overtlows the crater at the toj) or, by the great 

 pressure of the column, bursts open the sides of the volcano and 

 escapes tbrough the fissure to the surface. In the latter case, as 



