Wood County Reporter

too small for its ready escape at the ebb. Some of these salt water cataracts are as much as twelve feet high. There is a miniature example of the gorge near this city.

On the Yukon River the upper waters are rendered quite clear by the deposit of all their silt in a chain of lakes, but lower down a stream called White River enters from the south so charged with glacier mud that the Yukon thence to the sea is too dirty for even the bottom of a cupful to be distinguished. Graylings rise rapidly to the fly above; no fishing without nets is possible below. Moreover, where the great river crosses the arctic circle the tributaries from the tundra lands are like rivers of tea, so deep is the strain of vegetable matter from the moss swamps of the far north.