Outing . IGHTFIELD CRUISING Al?\ONG THIS SALT SLAK1E [ISLAND: THE Great Salt Lake in traditionbore agrewsome character; aroundit crystallized blood-chilling hor-rors for man and beast: a whirl-pool in some undefined portion was cred-ited with the sucking down of thestanchest boat that entered its dreadmaelstrom ; the water produced a griev-ous eruption of the skin from which noswimmer could hope to escape, and thenoxious vapors were supposed to be in-stant death to birds flying over its sur-face ; mythical sea - serpents writhedin the poisonous, slimy brine which slept forever, no wav
Outing . IGHTFIELD CRUISING Al?\ONG THIS SALT SLAK1E [ISLAND: THE Great Salt Lake in traditionbore agrewsome character; aroundit crystallized blood-chilling hor-rors for man and beast: a whirl-pool in some undefined portion was cred-ited with the sucking down of thestanchest boat that entered its dreadmaelstrom ; the water produced a griev-ous eruption of the skin from which noswimmer could hope to escape, and thenoxious vapors were supposed to be in-stant death to birds flying over its sur-face ; mythical sea - serpents writhedin the poisonous, slimy brine which slept forever, no waves danced overit, no surf-roar broke the stillness aboutit,—lifeless, dull and heavy. These and various other exaggeratedreports were not without weight in pre-venting early navigation of this superbsheet of water, whose twenty-five hun-dred square miles unroll their sparklingsilver to an infinitude of desert andmountain framings of glorious aspect. To spend even days, to say nothing ofweeks, within sight of the Great Sal
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