Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

WESTERN OatEGON.
Sergeant Stearns clambered around the lake foel a
short distance, and ascended to the sunmmit by a d(ifterent route frotn the one we descended-yet he does
not think he could go down where he came up. Tile
water in the lIke is as clear as a crystal, and is about
the samtue temperature as the well water iii Rogue
River Valley.
"We saw no fish of any kind, nor even insects in
the water. The only thing we saw that indicated
that there are fish in the lake was a kitigfi,her. In
ascending, I measured the distance as well as I c(,ud,
from point to point, by the eye, and conclude that it
is from seven to eight hundred feet perpendicular,
from the water to the summitof the bltiff. Tile l,ke
seems to be very nearly circular, and is from sevenr
to eighlt miles in diameter; and, except at two or
three points, the bluff is about the same altitut(le.
Near the western shore of the lake is an island about
oie-half mile in diameter, upo)in which theie is considerable timber growing.'he island is not maore
than a quarter of a mile from the western slioi'e of
the lake, and its shape is a frustrum of a cone; the
top seems to be depressed, and I think there is a
small crater in the center of the island. I think a
path could be made from the summit to the water's
edge, at the western edge of the lake, for the formation seems to be entirely pomice stone at that poili)t,
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