. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . he pleasanttown of Hope, on the strand of Lake Pend d^Oreille, isreached. Lake Pend dOreille.—This beautiful lake may be lik-ened to a broad and winding valley among the mountains,filled to th
. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . he pleasanttown of Hope, on the strand of Lake Pend d^Oreille, isreached. Lake Pend dOreille.—This beautiful lake may be lik-ened to a broad and winding valley among the mountains,filled to the brim with gathered waters. Reaching the lake,the railroad crosses the mouth of Pack river on a trestleone mile and a half in length, and skirts the northern shorefor upward of twenty miles. The shores are mountains,but, wherever there is a bit of beach, it is covered withdense forest. The view of the lake from the car windows,with its beautiful islands and its arms reaching into thesurrounding ranges, is superb. The waters stretch outsouth, and fill a mountain cove to the southwest beforethose of the Clarks Fork meet them. From this pointthe river makes the lake its channel, and passes out at the Across the Pan-Handle of Idaho, 209 western end on its flow northward to meet the Columbia,just over the boundary line in British Columbia. Thewhole length of the lake, following its curves and wind-. Skirting the Clarks Fork. ings, must be nearly sixty miles. In places it is fifteenmiles wide, and in others narrows to three miles. The circuit of the lake shore is full of surprises. Themountains are grouped with fine effect, and never become
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