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A Wonderful Lake*Tlie Tiodie (Cal.) Free Prtns publishes liie following description of Mono lake, a remarkable body of water :Not with standing the steady influx of five large fresh water creeks and innumerable small streams, its bitter but pellucid waters continue to give a sedimentary analysis of forty-five parts soda, forty parts salt and fifteen parts borax and lime ; that the lake is twenty-nineby nineteen miles in diameter, and n ore than 200 feet deep in places; that it contains two large and several small tufa islands, the first in magnitude having an area of 2,200 acres and the second 1,500 sores; that upon the second island is the crater of a volcano that was in active eruption as late as 1858, that upon the larger island and out 100 feet 4from it, in seventy feet depth of water, are boiling springs of asphalt, and that no living thing exists in the waters of the luke except the Piute shrimp, a pinkeyed worm which attains a length of about three-fourths of an inch.The valley, commonly called a desert, surrounding the lake is about thirty by fifty miles in diameter, and has at some not remote period of the past been wholly submerged by mineral waters similar to those which now occupy the deep portion of the basin, as the water mark along the western wall is nearly 1,000 feet above the present surface of the lake.
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Pittsboro Chatham Record
Pittsboro, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 01, 1881
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