Through the heart of Patagonia . of water that is precipitated into it by a numberof rivers and mountain torrents. Besides the Rivers Leona andKatarina, there are two or three streams of considerable sizeand countless snow-fed cascades fallino- from the cliffs. On theother hand, the only large outlet is the River Santa Cruz, andthough that river carries off an important amount of water tothe Atlantic, the quantity is not sufficient to account for the factthat the great lake is surely if slowly shrinking in size. TheNorth and South Fjords with their adjoining reaches of waterat one time formed
Through the heart of Patagonia . of water that is precipitated into it by a numberof rivers and mountain torrents. Besides the Rivers Leona andKatarina, there are two or three streams of considerable sizeand countless snow-fed cascades fallino- from the cliffs. On theother hand, the only large outlet is the River Santa Cruz, andthough that river carries off an important amount of water tothe Atlantic, the quantity is not sufficient to account for the factthat the great lake is surely if slowly shrinking in size. TheNorth and South Fjords with their adjoining reaches of waterat one time formed part of a wide-spreading lake, whose waterswashed completely round the bases of the mountains—suchas Mount Ikienos Aires—and of hills that now stand upon out-jutting points of land or actually upon the present lines of theshores. The reason for this shrinkage of the lake, when appear-ances would seem to point rather to increase of size, is difficultto discover. The features of the canadoii of the Katarina changed but little. < A
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