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flow is quite rapid, ^with no natural obstructions to tlie passage of fisb. The distance 
from the lake to the mouth is about a mile, and the stream flows over a rocky, bowldery 
bed. The banks are densely wooded, and the mountains abut close on either side, 
rendering a passage along them almost impracticable. Eedfish and cohoes formerly 
ran here in large numbers. 
There were no means of exploring the lake, the banks of which were impassable. 
So far as could be judged, it is about 2 miles long and one-fourth of a mile wide. The 
banks are not very high, and there seems to be a shore shelf before tlie rise to the 
higher mountains. It was learned that Mchols Bay Lake has a large inflowing stream 
near its head, and near the mouth of this stream is a smaller oue, conuecting the first 
lake with a second or smaller one. This second lake has an entering stream, the con- 
nection with a third lake, and another stream connecting it (the second lake) with a 
fourth. The fourth lake is shallow, with pond lilies growing over it, and from its head 
there is a iiortage to a mud lake which has an outlet into the salt chuck at Hessa, on 
the western side of the island, about 5 miles to the northward of Point Marsh. Into 
this salt chuck another stream empties, also a lake outlet, which carries salmon and 
which will be referred to later. 
The following table shows the catch from Nichols Bay stream in 1896 and 1897 : 
Species. 
1896. 
1897. j 
Dates. 
Number 
of lisb. 
Dates. 
Number 
of fish. 
Retliisli 
Coliocs 
July 10 to Ang. 31 
Sopt. 1 to Sept. 20 
31, 192 
550 
July 6 to Aug. 31 
Auo- 16 to 3] 
11,218 
1,313 
.54, 772 
Hiiiiipbacks 
J nly 24 to Aug. 20 - 
HESSA INLET. 
Hessa Inlet is about 7 miles southeast from Hunter 
Bay, and is a large landlocked bay or iidet, about 3 miles 
long, approached by an entrance scarcely 100 yards wide, 
through which the tidal current rushes with such velocity 
that it can only be navigated near or at slack water. At 
the northern end of the bay is a fisherman’s shack, and 
near it enters a small stream, the outlet to a shallow lake. 
This outlet is about half a mile long, 25 feet wide, and was 
about 8 inches deep at the time of examination; it rises to 
the lake, about 10 feet above high water. 
The lake is of irregular outliue aud about 1 mile long, 
ramifying in various directions; it is shallow, with a rocky 
bottom partly covered with gravel or mud. This body of 
water is iu many places surrounded by grassy aud marshy 
banks. In the outlet, at the head of tidewater, is a barri- 
cade across the full width of the stream built in the usual 
manner, but with the addition of 2-iuch-mesh wire netting, 
the whole forming such au effectual obstruction that not a 
single fish can pass upstream. A tree jiartly felled and 
ready to fall across the stream is on the right bank. 
The cannery record gives no catch of salmon from Hessa in 1896 except 5,215 
cohoes, taken in August and up to September 20, though the superintendent stated 
