What to see in America . California 485. Bullfrog Lake and West Vidette Mountain the United Statesare in Californiaonly a short dis-tance apart. Afew miles east ofthe mountainthe lowest placeis a spot inDeath Valley,two hundred andseventy-six feetbelow the level ofthe sea. Thisvalley, one hun-dred and fifty miles long with an average breadth of fifteen miles, ac-quired its name from the loss of numerous emigrants whoattempted to pass through it in 1849. It was formerly thebed of a salt lake. Several watercourses enter it but onlycontain water after heavy rains, which are rare. The air is sodry
What to see in America . California 485. Bullfrog Lake and West Vidette Mountain the United Statesare in Californiaonly a short dis-tance apart. Afew miles east ofthe mountainthe lowest placeis a spot inDeath Valley,two hundred andseventy-six feetbelow the level ofthe sea. Thisvalley, one hun-dred and fifty miles long with an average breadth of fifteen miles, ac-quired its name from the loss of numerous emigrants whoattempted to pass through it in 1849. It was formerly thebed of a salt lake. Several watercourses enter it but onlycontain water after heavy rains, which are rare. The air is sodry in this Valley of Burning Silence that dew never storms and dust whirlwinds are common. In summerthe thermometer sometimes records on successive days onehundred and twenty-five degrees in the shade. The valleywas the scene of a borax stampede in 1852, and pros-pectors went crazy from the heat and died on the lonely sands,and there their bleaching bones were found later. Boraxexists in Death Valley in inexhaustible quantities
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