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and a trifling feat of daring performed to get a view of a beautiful reflection under this overhanging stone parapet.

The approach to the lake is from the west or northwest. To the right of the approach is a small grove of spruce-trees of a good height, in a sort of sink with piled-up rocks behind it, and on the south, inside the rim, are trees growing among the rocks for some distance, as also on Wizard Island, which has a belt of trees around its base ; but for the most part there is no vegetation shown in this locality.

Crater Lake lies on a plane made by cutting off the top of a cone, its west side embedded in the range, and its east and south sides rising clear from the plain eight thousand feet below. A quarter of a mile from the lake one may stand on the edge of the plane before mentioned and look over the Klamath Yalley, seeing distinctly the settlements fifty miles away. Korth of the lake is only a jumble of mountains, with Mount Scott and Diamond Peak rising more prominent than their neighbors.

Congress, in January, 1886, set aside Crater Lake and a body of land thirty miles long by twelve miles wide for a national park, Oregon agreeing to j)reserve and keep it for the pleasure of the people for all time. The boat used by Captain Dutton in his survey still remains at the lake, and as tourists multiply other means of viewing it in its whole extent will be furnished.

The railway tourist would most naturally leave the train at Medford, taking the old road to Fort Klamath and returning the same way. Pogue Piver rises in the range near Crater Lake, flowing for some distance through a deep canon along the edge of which the road runs.

Even here are evidences of the forces which have rent the rocks asunder, as well as of the lapse of time which has assisted the elements to mould and carve them into fantastic shapes. Some distance off the road, we were told, is a locality where blocks of pumice as “ big as a meeting-house” may be seen, which must have been produced in the furnace of the great dead volcano to the east. In one place Pogue Piver has a foamy passage through a narrow gorge called The Dalles, below which it widens out in a series of rapids, after which it gathers its w T aters for a plunge over a sheer precipice one hundred and eighty-six feet perpendicular. The mountains, too, are