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ANOTHER DEAL) SEA.A writer in the Union (Cal.) Democrat gives k very interesting description of Mono Lake, w hieh ! has recently engrossed public attention, from the fact of the discovery of deposits of gold iu the neighborhood. He says :Mono Lake is more literally a dea 1 sen” than the sea of Sodoui. According to ]r. Clarke, that “sea 8warms_yvith ffshes, and shells abound on its,shores.” Mono Lake has neither. The • extreme length and breadth of the I)end Sea. according to Meriti, are 75 by 10 miles, giving a i superficial aria of t00 square miles. The river : Jordan and Arnon.and the brook Kedron, besides many rivulets, empty into the Dead Sea.Into Mono Lake McLane's river falls from the North, and Crosby s river from the South, and three large brooks or creeks fall into it from the west, besides numerous rivulets and springs all around its borders. Hut this lake not or:/re-i spends to the Greek epithet nionos, as bring . “ a lone, solitary, deserted, forsaken,” but it !o answers to the same adjective as explaiued iu ‘he t Spanish as being 14 pretty, nice, neat.’’This lake takes, as many shapes as the p-inta i differ from which you view it. From the west . side, about ten miles from its northern limit, it appears like a beautiful crescent, its horiu curving delicately around vou on the right and hut. From the North it appears to be nearly circular, like the full moon, the islands in its waters strikingly representing the clouded spots on li at ; planet. From the East it appears to have no par-] ticular shape,but it stretches off irregularly among the mountains. . i There is a little or rio echo around this lake,1 and indeed it is difficult t understand a p rsoutalking at a little distance. A dreamy, spi ll like spirit seems to pervade the atmosphere. Tha ! smooth, glassy surface of the waters, the upheave 1.! disrupted, volcanic mountains surrounding tlm ! lake, looking down, as it were, into this abyss of | their ejection; the illusion iff vision, and the whitened shores, thickly columned in many pla-i ces with vesicular lava which looks like monuments erected tu the44 mighty dead,” all e«o ! to impress the mind with the idea of a f?etiuous | scene, portrayed by tl*e pencil of jig omnipotent hand.
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Newbern Weekly Progress
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jan 17, 1860
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