408 The American Geolo(ji.st. Juue, i897 
the state is explored more earefull3^ Information concerning 
most of these lakes and their outlets was oljtained while the 
writer was engaged in field work for the Geological and Nat- 
ural History Survey of Minnesota. 
Brule lake (1851 feet above the sea) is a sheet of water 
over eight miles (including its narrow eastern part) in length, 
east and west, and averages about a mile in width. It is 
situated in Ts. 63-2 and 63-3 W., Cook county, and is about 
twenty miles north of lake Superior. The fact that this lake 
has two outlets, one at the east and the other at the west end, 
has already been noted by C. P. Berke3^* The two outlets 
form streams of approximately equal volume, and both flow 
over rock beds. The eastern stream is the Brule river which, 
after an east-southeasterly course of some forty miles, enters 
lake Superior in T. 62-3 E. The western stream finds its way 
into the Temperance river whose mouth is forty-three miles 
southwest of tliat of the former stream. The water w^hich 
flows through the second outlet travels over thirty miles before 
reaching lake Superior. 
A small lake on the International boundary stream which 
connects Gunflint and Saganaga lakes, in Cook county, has 
two outlets which have both been figured and one of them de- 
scribed by A. Winchell.f This lake (about 1512 A. T.) is of 
only a few acres extent and is situated (Sec. 19, T. 65-4 W.) 
in one of the most forbidding and desolate spots imaginable, 
the land surface being bare granitic ledges, white and glisten- 
ing, from which the vegetation and the slight covering of soil 
have been removed by fires. The two outlets are less than half 
a mile apart and both fiow westward into Pine lake, about 
half a mile distant. 
The Kawishiwn river, a westward flowing water course in 
the northern part of Lake county, is formed by a series of 
lakes connected by short, rapid streams. At least three of the 
lakes of this series have each tM'o outlets. The largest body 
of water of this nature along this river is a very irregularly 
outlined lake (about 1503 A. T.) which sends its arms and 
bays into fifteen different sections in Ts. 6 2-9, 63-8 and 63-9 W. 
*Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., 22d Ann. Rept., pp. 137-138, 
1891. 
tibid., IGth Ann. Rep., pp. 230-232, 1888. 
