Snake River, chief tributary of the Columbia; rises in Wyoming amid the Rockies; flows S. and NW. through Idaho, forming the Shoshone Falls, rivalling Niagara, which they exceed in height; through Southern Washington it flows W. under the name of the Lewis River or Fork, and discharges into the Columbia after a course of 1050 m.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Smyrna, Gulf of * Snake-stones