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Show HtOMONTOBY RANGE- VIEW OF THE LAKE, 101 promontory, the limestones disappeared, and the Surface rock was formed of conglomerate- composed chiefly of the older sedimentary rocks, aild some boulders of serpentine and ^ porphyry. Upon examining severalisolated masses of this, it was found that each stone ( principally rbunded pebbles of quartz) was surrounded by a crystal-, line layer Of satin spaif^ as if it had formed a nucleus arotfnd which the lime h& d crystallised. In about ten miles we reached th6 so^ ith-ern extremity of this high rocky range, where il juts into the Jake, Within this distance we passed fiyg or stt springs, some of them with very* good water, bursting from the foot of the ' mountain.'. Innumerable salt and sulphur springs, bre^ k out of the bank all along, but are sooq lost in the* broad jand and mud flat which " lies between the bfenks and the water. This flat is about; two miles broad, entirely without vegetation, and has, I thihk^ been slightly covered by the lake in the. spring and summer..: Both' yesterday and to- day, considerable quantities of sinafl JWt- Woofi Was aeen lying on the sand^- a fact Which favours this opipion. ' ' The mirage/ along - tjhet lake shore, and above the moist, oozy plains,. tas> been, for the last two . days, very great, giving rise to . optical illusions the most grotesque and fantastic, and rendering all estimate of* the distance'or fojrir of objects vague and uncertain* Two miles farther we reached a small rill of brackish, indifferent water,, upon which' we bivouacked/ fearing io go on, lest we should be left without any. ' ' * The evening; Was mild and bland, and the scene around u$ one of ejcciting interest. At our feet and on each side lay the. Waters of the Great Salt Lake, which we had so long and so* ar-~ dejitly desired to seoV They were clear . arid calm, arid stretched v far to the. south and west. ' Directly before us, and distant only » a few miles, an island rose from eight hundred t< J one thousand feet in* height, ^ rhile in the distance other and larger ones shot up . from the bosom of the waters, their summits appearing to, reach the clouds.. On the west appeared several dark, spots, resembling . other islands, but the. dreamy haze hovering over this still and solitary sea threw its dim,. uncertain veil over the more distant features of the landscape; preventing the eye from discerning any one object with distinctness, While it half revealed the whole, leaving • ample scope for the imagination qf the beholder* The stillness of the grave seemed to pervade both air and water; and, excepting * , here and. there* a. solitary wild- duck floating motionless - on the - bosom of the lake, not a living thing was t? be sOta. The njght |