THE SALMON AND SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 
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The bed of the stream is rocky, interspersed with bowlders and coarse and flue 
gravel. The banks are rocky and precipitous and covered with heavy undergrowth. 
Mountains impinge close on tlie banks. From the Indian village the general course 
of the stream is to the southwe.st, and, with its meandeiflngs, it is about 4 miles to 
the lake, the distance in a straight line being about 3 miles. It varies from 100 to 
300 feet in width. About one-fourth of a mile from the month is an Indian shack in 
ruins, and stored inside were a number of Indian traps and large gratings, which, in 
some places, are used for barricading streams. 
and from 1 to 
miles wide, with 
a number of in- 
flowing streams. 
The first lake has 
one stream emerg- 
ing from a valley 
Slietcli of Karta Ray Stroani. 
between two snow-capped mountains near the southern shore of the upper arm, and 
entering the lake from a large, sparsely wooded flat, in a dozen or more streamlets 
having grassy banks and flue gravel and sand bottom. These streamlets cover about 
three-eighths of a mile of the lake shore. The central i)art of the lake seems deep, 
though there are a few shoals, one appearing at the surface; along the shores it is shal- 
low. The banks are mostly grassy, with sand and gravel beaches. The lake is about 
(50 feet above the level of the sea, and the stream falls 30 feet in tlie first half mile. 
