Lake Chelan [pp. 195-201]

Oversand Mon Il
VOL. XXXIII
March, I 899
No. I95
Lake Chelan- Near the Mouth
LAKE CHELAN
THE LEMAN OF
BY WV. D. LYMAN
LTHOIUGIJ our Great West became
known in its general features many
years ago, its special scenic attractions have to be rediscovered from time to
time to make them familiar to the country
at large. And it is quite a remarkable fact
that some of the most extraordinary of all
Nature's achievements in our New West
are not generally known to the traveling
public. A few great names, as the Yellowstone, the Columbia River, the Yosemite,
lIount Tacoma, and Alaska, have been re
peated so much that people in the East
think that these exhaust the list.
MAlost notable among these neglected
wonders, is Lake Chelan. "Where is it?"
is the first question. In the central part
of the State of Washington. "What is
it?" is the next. It is a lake of glacial
water, seventy miles long, from one to
three miles wide, and in many places a
thousand or twelve hundred feet deep. It
occupies the center of a basin trenched out
of the very heart of the Cascade Mountains
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