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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
A large feeder, which enters the lake at the southern end, around an islet in its 
mouth, was examined for a distance of 5^ miles. 
It flows in a winding channel, through a gradually rising country, in two general 
directions from the highest point reached, first to the SE. and then to the NNE. At 
a point measured it was 100 feet wide, 9 inches deep, with a strong current. In the 
lower course are numerous wooded islands, and about 4 miles from the mouth is an 
extensive flat, the stream at this point flowing around a low island, nearly one-half 
mile long. The banks here are grassy, with much elder, while in other places they are 
heavily wooded. Except through the flats the stream bed is rocky, with intervals 
of gravel patches. The water has the brownish tinge usual to lake water in South- 
east Alaska, and had a temperature of 40° F. Elevation of highest point reached, 
180 feet. At this point there were no signs of a second lake; later, however, some 
Indians stated that there was a second lake beyond, to which salmon ascended. Inac- 
cessibility would make the second lake unsuitable as a hatchery site, while on the 
first lake difficulty would probably be encountered in securing mature fish and pure 
water for hatchery purposes. 
There is no record available for this stream, but from the best authorities it is 
stated that it will produce 50,000 redfish per season under good conditions. 
BARTLETT BAY, STREAM, AND LAKE. 
Bartlett Bay or Cove is on the eastern side of Glacier Bay, about 4 miles to the 
northward of Point Adolphus, and is formed by the southernmost of the Beardslee 
Islands and a projection from the mainland. The head of the bay receives the main 
body of water flowing from a redfish stream, a portion of which, however, empties into 
Glacier Bay to the northward of the Beardslee Islands. The stream was examined 
by a party in charge of Lieutenant Rodman on June 26. 
The main supply of water in the stream comes from two branches which flow 
from glaciers in the mountain ranges to the eastward, the water received from 
streams having a lake source forming only a small portion. The stream is about 9 
miles long from its mouth to the upper lake, the width varying from 15 yards in the 
upper reaches to 150 yards in the lower, and the depth from a few inches to several 
feet; the general direction of the flow is south. The stream bed is gravel, sand, 
mud, and bowlders. As far as the wooded bluff, which is reached by high-water 
tides, and where the first rapids begin, the stream flows through low grass-covered 
flats with the tree line receding for one-fourth mile. In this section there are numerous 
sand bars, mud flats, islands, and pools. From the bluff to the lake the rapids are 
frequent, but not very strong, and the stream meanders through low flats covered 
with pussy willow and cottonwood, with scattering spruce, hemlock, alders, and elders. 
Over the flats are great areas of strawberries, which are sought by the Indians during 
the latter part of July and August. 
Three-fourths of a mile above the bluff is an island about one-fourth mile long, 
and in the first bend below is a V-shaped runway in which traps were formerly used. 
There is no evidence of barricading, though the stream could easily be closed by nets 
at the head of tide water. 
Immediately above the wooded bluff a small tributary enters from the westward, 
2 feet wide, 4 inches deep, temperature 56° F., which is said to drain a small lake 
about half a mile long. One-half mile above the large island is another tributary, 
