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Coast and Geodetic Survey. יT HE French Canadian trappers of the Hudson Bay Company, following the Columbia river and its tributary streams in pursuit of their calling, were the first white discoverers of the great gorge which they named the Grand Coulee. In the French tongue a coulee is defined as the "mouth of a furnace." Miles west of the Grand Coulee is the Moses Coulee, and nearer the Snake river to the southeast lie the Providence and the Washtucan Coulees. Besides these there may be observed numerous, but similar, insipient, unimportant fractures crossing the country in various directions. All these are less remarkable than the one under consideration. This topo graphical and geological feature of the country, designated as the Big Bend of the Columbia, lies in Douglas county in the eastern half of the state of Washington. It is generally recognized as peculiar to this region. The writer cannot recall any account of similar chasms in any other part of the world. These features are characteristic of great eruptions or overflows of basaltic lavas, and as this overflow was on a more stupendous scale in the Northwest portion of this continent than elsewhere, the coulee formation is found principally in this region. The Grand Coulee extends from the Columbia river for a distance of about one hundred and twentyfive miles in a general north and south direction to the Columbia again near White Bluffs. The course of the Columbia at the northern end of the Coulee is nearly westward, and at the southern end it is nearly south. The whole plateau. region is almost destitute of forest growth except in the few canyons and along the water courses. The country may be described as an elevated prairiea plateau, open and gently undulating. In some portions the soil is fertile, and in favorable seasons will produce large vields of wheat, while in others great areas of barren basaltic rock crop out, presenting a sterile waste. The whole vast region from Spokane westward, with the exception of a few limited areas of uncovered granite, seems to be underlaid with basalt. A traveller, to whom coulees were unknown and unsuspected, in passing over a gently rolling and open prairie country would be wonderstruck to suddenly find across his path a great gorge five hundred to six hundred feet deep and two miles wide, with vertical walls extending from right to left as far as the eye could reach. He would notice the parallel sides of this forbidding fissure in the face of nature, a point on this side corresponding to a bend on the opposite side, with a bottom apparently level. He would see, dotted here and there in the sandy sage-brush bottom, lakes of clear water fringed with green reeds and grasses, or white and alkaline ponds, muddy and shallow, on whose margin |