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laCithAnother Dead 8ea,A writer in the Union (CaI.) Dctno crat gives a very interesting (iencripiion of Mono Like winch ha* recently on-I grossed public attention. from the fuel of tho discovery of deposits of gold in the neighborhood. Ho suv* : piMono Lake ii more literally a 'dead sea’ lu i Ihnn the sea of Sodum. According to Dr. Us Claik, that »ca iwraims with fishes. and vi I shells abound on its shores*1* Mono ciI Like hat neither. The extreme length oland breadth of tho Dead Sea. according to C Meiiti, are 75 by 15 miles, giving a f-u- at I netticial area of 6j9 iqutrc miles.— ill *j Whereas, Mono Lake contain* 675 square tl I miles. The river Jordon and Arnon, and c i tho brook Kctlron, besides many rivulets, v 1 empty into the Dead Sen. Into Mono p- Lake, McLine’t river fnlU from the north, n- and Crosby's river from the south, nnd fii. three large brooks or creeks full iuto ii vfrom the vre»t, betides numerous rivulets Ii and springs nil around its borders. But I n this hike not only responds to the Greek t , epithet monos as being alone,solitary, t d deserted, forsnken, but *l*o answers to n0 the same adjective as explained in the ti d Spanish as being pretty, nice, neat. | jrThe lake tikes as many shapes as the I e points dift'or from which you view'll.— From the west side, about ten miles from I, its northern limit, it appears like a beautiful crescent, its horn* curving delicately o around you on the right and left. From 8 the mouth it appears to be nearly circular, ri like the full rnoon, the inlands iu its waters llt; strikingly representing the clouded spots j n on that planet. From the cast it appears to. b * have no particular chape, but it »trichcs n n off irregularly among the mountains. a- ! There in little r.r no coho around this v e lake, and indeed it is difficult to under- t d stand a person talking at n little distance.' p\ dreamy, spcll-liko spirit stems to per- ( vado 1 he atmosphere. The smooth glassy I surface of the waters ; the upheaved. dis- r rupted, volcanic inountuiua surrounding I the lake, looking down, as it were, into 5 1! this abyss of their ejection ; the allusion t 'of vision, nnd the whitened shores,thickly f it i columned in many places with vLicuUr c d lava, which look like mountains erected to 1 | the mighty dead all conspire fo im- i pi css the mind with the idea of u fictitious i e scene, portrayed by the pencil of an om-1 nipotcnt band. ti
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The Jeffersonian Democrat
Chardon, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 03, 1860
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