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The Dead Sea of the West.The famous “Dead Sea of the West/’ Mono Lake, situated in Mono county, Cul ,is thus described. Its water is so strongly impregnated with alkalies that the hand held for a few minutes in it will crack open and the skin be eaten off. No living thing exists in it, though it is said that often, after strong winds have blown across its surface there is a layer of worms several feet wide on its leeward shore It cleanses clothes dipped in it almost instantly, and if they are not speedily removed, does worse. Its shores are barren, bleak and lonely in the extreme, bordenng on a soil that will grow nothing but the scrubbiest kind of sagebrush The length of the lake is thirty miles and its greatest width about eighteen miles Seen from this magnificent point, surrounded by the great walls of Bloody Canon, it is one of the noblest views on earth, but at tlje same time it only prorves to one who has been about its shores and toiled across the deserted and sandy interval to welcome the foot of theSierra, with even no better way across than the Bloody?Canon, that truly “distance lends enchantment to the view.”
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Unionville Weekly Republican
Unionville, Missouri, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1885
Page 4
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