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ANOTHER DEAD SEA.A writsv in the Galon (Cnl.) Democrat ?ivc8 a very interesting description of Mono -akc which has recently engrossed public ni icuiion, from the fact of I lie discovery of deposits of gold ia the neighborhood. Ho sms;Mono Late is more literally a “dead sea/' : , than the sea of Sodom. According lo I)r. ( Ciarke. that ‘‘sc* swarms with fishes, and ^ shells abound on Ms shores.” Mona Lake has neither, the extreme length and. breath of the Dead Sea, according t0 Merit i, arc To by 10 tidies, gi\ ing a superficial area of 000 squire miles. Whereas, Mono Lata contains 075 tqaavo miles. The rm*r Jordan and Arnon, and the bvook Kedi^in, besides many rivulets, empty into the Dead Sea. Into Mono Lake, McL.nic's river falls from iha north, and Crosby’s river from the south, and- three large brooks or creeks fall into it from the west, besides ntimereua rivulets and—springs oil mougd its borders. Lut this lake not only responds to the'Greek epithet “monos” asbeing alone, solitary, deserted, forsaken.“ but ni_o angers to the same adjective a ex-pUii-cd in jho Spanish as being “pretty nice, i',eat.'1 rfThe lake take3 as many shapes as the points differ from which y*u view it. From the west side, about leu miles from its northern limit, Ll appears like a beautiful creseut, its horns carving delicately around you on tne right and left. From the north it appearsto be nearly circular, like a full moon, the is lauds in ity waters strikingly representing the clouded spoLson the planet. From the east it appears to hare no particular shape, but it stretches off irregularly atnouc the mountains. °There is little or no echo around ibis lake, and indeed ii is difficult to ucdersmud a person talking at a JliLtlp distance. A dreamy epell-iike sp.iit seems to pervade the atmos-phore, The smooth, glassv sm-f.icc of the waters; the upbeaved, disrupted, volcanic mountains surrounding the lake, looking down, as it were, into this abyss of iheii* ejection; the illusion of vision, aud the whitened shores, thickly columned in many places wrMi Viaicutar iuva, which looks Lke mountains erected to the “mighty deadfall conspire to impress the mind with the idea of ft ficficiouc scene, portrayed by fho pencil.of an omnipotent hand.ir;aitl:1gccbtwh(thotihhlt;tl:ccit
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Fond Du Lac Democratic Press
Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 25, 1860
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