Snake

Snake, or LEWIS, RIVER, rises in the Rocky Mountains, on the borders of Wyoming and Idaho, U.S.A., and, after a semicircular bend to the S.W., turns due N. and, forming the boundary between Idaho and Oregon, joins the Columbia. It has a length of 900 miles, and is broken in its upper course by many falls. The Owyhee, Big Wood, Salmon, and Kooskoosky are among its affiuents.