Lakes With More Tluin One Outlet. — Watson. 269 
of some 50 feet. It was located in one of the fjord valleys, a 
short distance from the sea, and was rather small; averaging, 
about 100 by 40 rods in length and width. Apparently it had 
a fair depth for so small a body of water and was roughly tri- 
angular in outline. The two overflows were of about the same 
dimensions, one of them was a rock enclosed channel, the other 
M^as over a deposit of very large boulders, and both entered the 
sea as separate and distinct streams. 
A very much larger lake was found some six or eight miles 
eastward from Ashe inlet, formed in the intersection of two 
broad and deep valleys, approximately at right angles to each 
other. This basin was more regular in outline and was discharg- 
ing its waters through ./?re separate and distinct outlets, which 
were well marked and defined and were about equally distant 
from each other.* They flowed from the same side of the 
lake and had the same direction seaward. It is possible, and 
perhaps probable, that they united into one large stream before 
reaching the sea. Time was insufficient to confirm this. The 
valley through which the outlet channels drained was filled to 
some extent w^ith drift. It is a possibility and onl}^ so, since 
no evidence could be found favoring it, that during the break- 
ing up of the long winter snows, which must be very heavy, 
the lake reached farther down the valley seaward, and what 
was seen as five distinct outlets, may be united into one com- 
mon but temporary drainage channel to this basin. As I have 
stated this must be considered as only the barest possibility. 
Bellf, Low;J;, and Tyrrell§, have described a number of lakes 
in northern Canada with more than one overflow channel. 
Several of these are very large bodies of water, especially one 
described by Bell as having four separate and well defined 
outlets and draining north, south, east and west, and is some 
thirty miles in length. 
Whether the condition is a permanent one lasting through- 
out the entire life history of the lake is at present quite be- 
yond demonstration, and practicall}'^ would be very difficult 
to prove, if ever. However this may be, it is an assured fact 
*The writer crossed each one of the channels in sectioning the valley 
through which they coursed. 
tBull. Geol. Soc. Am., 1890, vol. i, p. 101. 
JThe Geog. Journ. (London), 1895, vol. v, pp. 519, 532. 
gibid., 1894, vol. iv, p. 438. 
