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Another Dead Sea*A writer in tha Union [Cal.] Democrat1 gives n very interesting description of Mo.J no Lake which has recently engrossed pub-1 -he attention, from the fact of the discovery of deposits of gvid in the neighborhood. He ftitys:Mono Lake h more literally n “dead sea tlmn l!»e sea of Sodom. According to Dr. Clarke, th.tt “sen swastu with iidw, and shells nhouud on its shores. Mono Lake has neither. Tho extreme length and breadth of tire Dead Sea, accordiug to Mer-ili, are 75 by 15 miles, givingn superficial area of 609 square miles. W here®, Mono Lake contains 675 square miles. The river Jordon and Arnon, and the brook Ked-rou, besides many rivulets, empty iulo tha Dead Sea. Into ^Mono Lake, McLaoea river falU from tho north, and Crosby’s river from the south, and three large brooks or creeks fall into it from the west, besides numerous rivulets and spriqgs all around its borders. But this lake not only responds to the Greek epithet “monos” as being “alone solitary, deserted, forsaken, but also answers to the same adjective os explained in the Spanish as being “pretty, nice, neat.”The lake takes as many shapes as the points differ from which you view iu— From the west side, about ten miles from its northern limit, it appears like a beautiful crescent, its horns curving delicately around you on the right and left. From the north it appears to be nearly circular, like the full moon, the islands in its waters strikingly repesecting the clouded spots on ihat planet. From tho east it appears to have no particular shape, but it stretch® off irregularly among the mountains.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 tho atmosphere. The smooth, gbissy surface of the waters; the upheavcu, disrupted, volcanic mountains surrounding tho lake, looking down, fts it wore, into thia abyss of their ejection; the allusion of vision, and the whitened shores, thickly columned in many places with viscular kva, which looks like mountains erected lo the “mighty deadall conspire to impress the mind with the idea of a fictitious scene, as portiyed by ihe pencil of an omnipotent band.
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Holmes County Republican
Millersburg, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1860
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