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Iour*partuarr 0 usthorperiplar1 us cgroaloihaslhasonkmadiiin1 a 1 hiasftredhTHE GAMF0BH1A WfSDEI.The Austin (Nevada) Rm8U haaj Dthe following; _ ^ hflB 1There are many things in the Qreat trao Basin or along iu rim, that ordte the curc interest of the traveller*, A dorrea- ^ pondent asks us to tell him “whether wjj0 Mono Lake, is actually the “dead sea** ft j8 It is reported to be? t am told that 0jne its bitter water* are iatal to all living j)rotthings. It you carl, ^ ill yon please us 0 say something about that singular \tno body ©t water’” We gather from the “report on the mineral resources of the States and Territories west of the Kooky Mountains, that Mono I-akc lies ton miles roath-west of the dlnd ing line between (California and Neva da, and is about fonrtocn miles wide , and nine long It has never been 1 Kltft , sounded but a trial said to have boon , made with a line 800 feet long failed BOtr, to reach the bottom. By chemical' tanalysis, a gallon of water, weighing j (jor , 8 pounds, was found to contain 1200 cjeJ grains of solid matter, consist mg prin*, cipally of ohlorido of sodium, carbon-| ate of soda, sulphate of soda, boraxand stUca.These substance* rend or the waterj so c Ad a ad nau eating that it is unfitfor drinking or bathing Leather ira*mersed In it t* soon destroyed by it*I oorrosive properties, iml no animal.. not evjeo s fish or t Irog can exist in the water for more than a short I* ^ 'time. The only thing able to live within or upon the waters of tills lake ^ is a species oi lly whu h, springing | from the larvii* bred so its bosom,alter I an ephemeral iitt dies, co1 looting on its *u»farc is tinned trorn tho shore, whore the rwiOaiii* oolieot lu vast4quant it'es, and are ted upon b) tho duoK.a or gathered by the native In dians with whlt;«ra they aro a great , staple article ot tuod Nestling undo the eastern water sued of the Sierra.I -‘Mono Lake reove* several cooaidur ab o f joineries, and. although desti lute of any ouiict, such u the andit) ot the atmosphere that n Lb always . k.|.t at nearly uniform level by the process of evaporation Bo dense andsluggish is the water r endered tbt ough anper-aaturauoc with varioue salts and other foreign matters, that only the strongest winds rtuse tbs ripple onits »n i faceAj* tho Sierra in this neighborhood ^ M1 1 reaches nearly its groatest altitude,the , rc seen try about Mono I*ake is varied- I r?1and majestu some parts of it being at f n the same time marked by a most cheer ** 'ess and de«n!atc aspect The biuer an 1 fatal waters of this lake render it C1 .iterah ideal sea and all its sur1 roundings—wn 1 gh omy and f reWi ( ( *' Ing—are »u^c*tive o{ sterility and1® death The h o«',Tip^si*»g action ol the water is shown by its effects ^ upon tbv bo I cj oi a i onij any ol Indi* ^ * an« twenty or thirty m number, who, ^ [ wr-.i u seeking to escape from their | * white pursue*s took refuge in the j | ake where tbrv were cruelly ihot by ^( it 1 their eneniti-s who left them in th® I * i water In the course of a few weeks r n t a of their bodies wm to be iwn even the bones haring been d©composed by this powerful solvent '' Mineral cnrult;ities abound in the * Beigbborbooil of Mono Lake among ^ which art numberless deposits in theshape of tiny pine treesOi de bew'I' nr 1 cf.l I at iIa rdl tbsew reIvc
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Beardstown Central Illinoian
Beardstown, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1869
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