. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. ilM^. THE GOLDEN TROUT. KEKN KIVEK. Kern River in .some respects one of the most interesting streams in the headwaters are among that group of stupendous mountain peaks from TableMountain (14,000 feet) in the Great Western Divide eastward through Mount(ieiieva, Crag Ericsson, Leland Stanford University Peak (14,103 feet). JunctionPeak (14,000 feet), Moimt Tyndall (14,101 feet), Mount Williamson (14,448 feet).Mounts Barnard, Tunnabora, and Wokorope to Mount Whitney (14,522 feet), thehighest and greatest of them all. (PI. vi, figs. 14 and 1.
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. ilM^. THE GOLDEN TROUT. KEKN KIVEK. Kern River in .some respects one of the most interesting streams in the headwaters are among that group of stupendous mountain peaks from TableMountain (14,000 feet) in the Great Western Divide eastward through Mount(ieiieva, Crag Ericsson, Leland Stanford University Peak (14,103 feet). JunctionPeak (14,000 feet), Moimt Tyndall (14,101 feet), Mount Williamson (14,448 feet).Mounts Barnard, Tunnabora, and Wokorope to Mount Whitney (14,522 feet), thehighest and greatest of them all. (PI. vi, figs. 14 and ) The course of the Kern is remarkable in that it is rectihnear and meridional, itbeing almost exactly due south for a distance of more than 28 miles, without wind-ings or curves of importance thiough the great Kern River Canyon, which forsublimity, as well as })eauty of scenerj-, rivals the Yosemite. The direction of thecanyon was, according to Professor Lawson, determined originally by a straight riftwhich has controlled subsequent eros
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