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A Wonderful lake.The Bodie Free Press publishes the following description of Mono lake, a remarkable body of water; •Notwithstanding the steady influx offive large fresh water creeks and innu- jmenible small streams, its bitter but j ! j-ipilnnwl Moiara rnnt.lllUe to give a Sedb I..... • tj niciitury analysis of 45 inarU db j.parts salt and if) parts borax and lirne; • that the lake is 20x15) miles in diameter, } and more than 200 feet deep in j places; that it contains two large and j several small tufa islands, the first in | magnitude having an area of 2,200 acres | and the second 1,500 acres; that upon , the second island is the crater of a volcano that was. in active eruption as late i\s 1S5-S, that upon the larger island and nut 100 feet from it, in 70 feet depth of water, are boiling springs of asphalt, and that no living thing exist:.; in the waicra | of the lake except the Piute shrimp, a | pink eyed worm which attains a length j of about three A-imhs of an inch. iThe valley, commonly eaiied a desert, jsurruiir.dirur the. lake Is about 30x50 •miles in dim* elev, and has at some not; remote poiiodof the past been wholly j submerged by mineral waters similar Vo • those which now occupy the deeper por- ; tion of the basin. the water mark I along the wlt; «uvn wall is nearly IdlOO | feet above the present surface of tka ;lake. !
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Owensville Wekly Echo
Owensville, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 07, 1882
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