The massive lake was roughly round with a panhandle on the side nearest the fortress.
She couldn't see the far end of the lake from her viewpoint, but she was able to see across the narrow panhandle.
The orographic features of the Pacific Mountain system trend parallel to the coast-line of the Gulf of Alaska, changing with this at the great bend beyond the N., and of the Panhandle from S.E.
The Coast Range of the Panhandle attains a width of loo m., but has no well-defined crest line.
The coast region above the Panhandle shows on a smaller and diminishing scale the same characteristic features, gradually running into those of the Aleutians.