Identifier: glimpseofgreatsa00uni (find matches)
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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ur cruise ended that night, still it would have been worth more thana year of every-day life. How like a dream it was to be out there on the faceof that mysterious sea ! How like a dream to be moving in the deep midnighttoward the shadows of its unknown shores! Every sight and every sound hadin it something of wonder or beauty. There hung Venus, our beneficent star.All of the islands had long disappeared, though the small lonely rock, the homeof the heron, was visible again for a moment, as, fiery and big, the moon arose likea midnight sun from the waters. A glorious, never-to-be-forgotten night; allthe world and its troubles seeming as far away as though we had voyaged toanother planet across the waves of a nebulous sea! Midnights sun, all blood-red bright.Far-off isles oer-bended ;It was not day, it was not night,Between them twas suspended. From the edge of Strongs Knob, where we landed next morning, can beseen a most characteristic view of the western shore. The sketch was made as
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(27) 28 A OLIMPSE OF GREAT SALT LAKfi. we skirted along the beach of a Httle bay, on the way to climb the highest emi-nence of the island. It is looking diagonally across the Davis Strait towardthe mouth of the American Desert. Desolation brooded over the originalscene, and yet there was mingled with its peculiarities a weird sort of witch-like beauty, strange to behold. The fantastic rocks jutting out from the landmay be duplicated on many a sea-shore, but not the blended pallor and purityof color which marked the place. Not the slightest humidity arose from thewater, only that wavy heat-haze that made the distance float in a dream)^mirage. From the top of the peak, a view, oppressive from its very immensity, greetedthe sight. Very little wind was moving, so in the shallows the lake lay quiet,among the numerous sand-bars of the strait, more like green, translucent ice,than water. From the cro-nest, erected by Stansbury, the outlook was wild.Far, and away to the west, stretched the wh

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