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A Bother Dead Met.i A writer io ihe Union (Or/.) Dtmo-1 era/, givet a very interesting description of Mono Laku, which hat recent!v engrossed public attention, from the fact of the discovery of deposits of gold io the neighborhood. He says :Mono Lake it more literally a ** dead sea' than the sea of Sodom. According to Dr. Clarke, that “ *ea awarins with fishes, and shells abound on iU j ' shores.’’ Mono Lake hat neither. The • extreme length and breadth of the Dead ; Sea, according to Mciitti, are 75 by 10 mi ea, giving a aupcifiial area of 600 square miles ; whereas, Mono Lake contains 075 square miles. The river Jordan and Arnon, and the brook Kedroa,| l»ctitiea many rivulets, empty into the 1 lead Set. Into Mono Lake, McLane'a river falls from the North and Croabya river from the south, and three large; hr. oka or creeks fall into it from the j : welt, beaidca numaroua rirulcta and spring* ail around ita borders. But this j lake not only responds to the Creek epithet mono*, as being ‘ alone, solitary, de-acited, forsaken,” but it also answers to the same adjective as explained in the Spanish aa being “pretty, nice, neat.’’ The lake takea as many shape* as the pointa differ from which you view it.— From the west aide, about ten milca from ita northorn limit, it appear* like a beautiful crescent, ita horns curving delicately around you ou the right and left. From the north it appear* to be nearly circular, like the full moon, the islands in the waters strikingly representing the clouded spots on that planet. From the eaat it appears to have no particular shape hut it stretches off irregularly among the mountains.There is little or no echo around this lake, and indeed it i* difficult to understand a person talking at a little distance. A dreamy, spell like spirit seems to pervade the atmosphere. The smooth, glassy surface of the waters ; the upheaved disrupted volcanic mountains surrounding the lake, looking down, as it were, into tl .heirejection; the illusion of vision, and the whitened ahorca, thick v columned in many places with the vehicular lava which looks like monuments erected to the “mighty dead all conspire to imprest the mind with tho idea of fictitious scene, portrayed by the pencil of an omnipotent hand.
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Daily Democrat And News
Davenport, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 19, 1860
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Dean T.
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