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California’s Dead SeaThe 8u Francisco Ohromole, in a recent issue, says: The propeller llockefc, which will be placed on Mono lake, will Lave no trouble about boating, as the density of the water is re* markable, being juufc the reverse oi that of Lake Tahoe, in which the body of a drowned person never returns to the surface. An exchange says that for bitterness and promiscuous mean ness the waters of Mono lake surpass those of the Dead yea.—They contain eo much alkali that on a windy day the lake is a “regular tub of soap suds. The writer has seen a wall of lather five feet high along the whole of that shore, against which the waves were beating Occasionally the wind would take up a bunch of lather as big as a bushel basket and carry it several hundred feet inland, fcio bony ant are the waters of the lake that quite a party of men may navigate them on a raft made of four or five dry oottonwood poles. Oat in the lake are islands of rook (lava like concretions) through w hich streams of water boil up. The wator cf these • springs is like that of the lake, but in oie place is a large spring of fresh water. This is new the northtteat corner of the lake and at a point where rLore is eight or ten feet of water. It F ^ sort oi fountain. A column of tre^li water, some three feet in diameter, m projected upward with such force that it rises to a height of at least two feet above the general level of tie lake in the form of a mound or knoll, aud makes a rippling noise that oan be heard a considerable distance. Bat for the fact that this fountain has a depth of eight or ten feet of water to ooutend against it would probably rise to a considerable height in the air.
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New Market, Virginia, US
Fri, Sep 03, 1880
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