File:A glimpse of Great Salt Lake, Utah (1891) (14765534805).jpg

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Title: A glimpse of Great Salt Lake, Utah ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railway company. (from old catalog) Lambourne, Alfred, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: (Chicago, Rand, McNally and co., printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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onspicuous. Some are of a purple black, andothers of a marble whiteness. Beside this beach there is a little alcove, wherethe pebbles are equally well polished, some of a pale, slaty gray, intermingledwith others of a green and deep red hue. While going along the trail, our captain told of a pitiable sight he hadwitnessed on a former visit. This had been about ten years before, when thelake was unusually high. With a single companion, he had crossed over to theisland, and both men were engaged in searching for the spring, when a loud andcontinuous bleating directed their steps to the place. Arriving at the edge ofan overhanging cliff, this sorry sight met their gaze. There on the beach stood,perhaps, a hundred sheep, huddled together, and looking appealingly at thespot where the spring had formerly been. In the agony of thirst they pawedfuriously the shingle, fresh victims continually adding to the number of deadalready lying by the shore. With throats parched and burning, the two men
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(16) A GLIMPSE OF GREAT SALT LAKE. 17 could well sympathize with the tortured animals. Seeing that their own questfor water was fruitless, they hurried away to their boat, and sped to the nearestwater they knew, that of a spring near Promontory.* With the words of this story fresh in our ears, we arrived at the spring, fromwhence we crossed over to the alcove on the opposite shore. Shadows oftwilight hung over the place. Tints of ravishing beauty were on sky and water.Primrose-yellow filled the lower heavens, changing imperceptibly into vaguestgreen, with violet at the zenith. Dim along the horizon, chains of mountainsformed bands of pearly rose, rose gray, and ashes of rose. In the lake deepamber took the place of the primrose, and wherever a breeze ruffled slightlyits otherwise quiet surface, was reflected the violet hue, edged with the palygreen. Well pleased with the events of our third day out, we returned to the cabins.Our host read aloud some passages from Fremonts book, those

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