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IaAI0TIK1 BEAD SEA*A wiiTot iu the Union (Cal.j Democrat | ( gives a Very ihterteting description of Lake Mono, winch has recently engrossed public 31 attention, fronrthc ct of the discovery of deposits of gold ihv the neighborhood. He says:“Mono Lake is more literally a 44 dead sea ” than the seaof Sodom.3 According :to Dr. Clark, that 41 sea 3 s warms with fishes, and shells abound 3 on its shores.” Mono Lake has t neither. The - extreme length and breadth, of the Dead Sea, according to'rMeriti are Tffby 16 miles, givinga superficial area of 600 square* miles whereas* Mono Lake contains. * * *1 675 square miles,. The rivers Jordan and Arpon, and the brook Ke-dron. 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 falliE1r;nv1 into it from the West, besides nu-uhpnbntlPaoUkaherbus rivulets and springs allaround its borders. But this lake* . . • . , -not only responds to the Greek epithet, monos, as being “alone, soli*11 tary, deserted, forsaken,” but it also answers to the same adjective as explained in the Spanish as being “pretty, nice, neat.”** The lake takes as many shapes as. the points differ from which you view it. From the West side, about ten miles from its Northern limit, it appears like a beautiful crescent, its horns curved delicately around youright and left. From the North it appears to be nearly circular, like the full moon, the islands in its waters strikingly representing the clouded spots on that planet. From the East it appears to have no particular shape, but it stretches off irregularly among the mountains. 4 44 There is little or no echo around this lake, and indeed it is difficult to understand a person talking at a little distance. A dreamy, spell-like spirit seems to pervade the atmosphere. The smooth, glassy surface jof the waters ; the upheaved, disrupted, volcanic mountains surrounding thelake.lookingdown.as it were, into this abyss of their ejection ; the illusion of vision, and the whitened shores, thickly columned m maoy places with vesicular lava, which look like monuments erected to the “ mighty deadall conspire to impress the mind with the idea of . a fictitious scene portrayed by the pencil of an Omnipotent hand.” \hwitlt;na
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Aurora Western Commercial
Aurora, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 19, 1860
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