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Show 102 KBOWMK0AXCK; AHPUND QKSAT BALI LAKE. proved perfectly serene,' and a young mo6n shed its tremulous light upon a sea of profounds unbroken silence, I waa surprised to find, although so near a body of the saltest water,. none of that feeling - of invigorating freshness which" is always experienced wken in the - vicinity of . the ocean.. v The bleak and naked, shores, without a sin* . . £ le. t* ee . to relieve $ he eye, presented a pcene so different from what v X had pictured in my imagination of the beauiie^ of this far- famed - Sp0t, that my disappointment was extreme:/ *••>•'." ** . Tuhday, Ottyber- ZS.^ flofiT. at dayHght|. 3t°; . Morning clear and, calm} the lake and . mountains to the eastward yet wrapped in mist. The west side of the extremity of the promontory is composed of porphyry, interspersed with yearns < jf white quarts, ' which veined i t in the jnort beautiful manner. % The quarts veins in some instances, we^ e several feet thick: these rocks, . evidently in place, .. Jose toldly, forming escarpments looking to the south- west, with a " dip,\ apparently to the north, , of, about 50°, Decomposed lime- • ' stone, containing organic remains,* afcd also trap, rock, were here - observed* ^ he ground, neat our encampment was covered with a speeiesW AMtragalvSj ike seed- pods of which wqre covered by a " substance resembling cotton^ and presented the appearance of pyal - whitfl balls, afyout t h e s i s of . a robin's egg* . I afterward Jbund this plant upon most of the islands of the lake... Bounding the ^ pointo^ the promontory, t^ e shore of the lake trends off to the northward, forming several picturesque little bays . with" bold rocky headlands. / After, travelling about nine tni^ es, we capae to seyeral springs of goo<£ and moat welcome water, and we " ~£ to. ppe'd to refresh our aniinals ant} to noon. The finding of this water was entirely unexpected, as, from* the representations of an' 1 old Shosbbnee, Indian, made to us before leaving Bear River, I did tot look for any for two day*; and had in cbnsequebce dismounted . - one of the men to enable ufe to carry the more vessels, all of . which had been filled before leaving our camp in the morning. I went down to the shore of the lake , to taste of tlje water: it was as salt as very strong trine, and clear and transparent Aa diamond, , A large • flocb of gulls wa^ syrimmingaboijt toear the shore, ^. fterfleastiifgour . animals upon tht grass that grew among the tall rushes and* canes ' erounri the spring, we continued along the shojeof the Jake for about nine miles farther, and succeeded in discovering three springs Within that distance, at the last > of which we halfed for' the nights . \ After doubling the southern etid of the promontory^ the Voa<* flats, which had characterised the . shore at its eastern base, en-* |