"Just below the outlet of Flathead Lake there is a series of
rapids and falls, one of which, at the time, was fifteen feet
high. The country to the west of the lake is a high rolling
prairie. Salmon trout, three feet long, are caught in it,...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; White Bear Lake (Minn.)
White Bear Lake, "a beautiful sheet of water, bordered with
timber, about fourteen miles long and two wide, with high
swelling banks running back a mile or so, and rising to the
height of about one hundred and fifty feet." Plate V.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lightning Lake (Mont.)
"Lightning Lake is a very beautiful sheet of water, so called
from the fact that during Captain Pope's expedition, while
encamped here, one of those storms so fearfully violent in this
country occurred, during which one of his party was...
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lake Jessie "The water
of Lake Jessie is considerably saline in its character," "and
the theory for the saline qualities is found in the f