. To California and back;. ay double your knees under you and recline uponit, like a cherub on a cloud, with head and shouldersprotruding. With sun-umbrella and book you mayidly float and read at pleasure, or safely take a napupon the bosom of Salt Lake if you can contrive tomaintain a suitable balance meanwhile; for you willfind a marked disposition on the part of this brineto turn you face down, which position is anythingbut a pleasant pickle when unexpectedly assumed,for the membrane of eyes and nose and mouth is noton friendly terms with such saline bitterness. Theshore of the lake is a fe
. To California and back;. ay double your knees under you and recline uponit, like a cherub on a cloud, with head and shouldersprotruding. With sun-umbrella and book you mayidly float and read at pleasure, or safely take a napupon the bosom of Salt Lake if you can contrive tomaintain a suitable balance meanwhile; for you willfind a marked disposition on the part of this brineto turn you face down, which position is anythingbut a pleasant pickle when unexpectedly assumed,for the membrane of eyes and nose and mouth is noton friendly terms with such saline bitterness. Theshore of the lake is a few miles distant from the city,and Garfield Beach, some eighteen miles away, isthe most popular bathing-resort. Here a pavilionand whole streets and avenues of dressing roomshave been provided for the hundreds of batherswho every day in season flock to the lake. Every-body bathes, and the scene, novel and amusing byreason of the remarkable specific gravity of the water,is unlike that of any other watering-place. The nat-122. ural aspect is full of soft beauty, not unlike that of theSouth California shore, lookingoff to the coast islandsof the Pacific, save that the semi-tropical veg-etationis wanting. Sat Lake is a Dead Sea, bare of lish or fowl ex-cept for a minute and not numerous species of theformer. There is said to be a Mormon traditionthat in the time of their grasshopper plague an enor-mous flight of gulls issued from its horizon andcleared the fields of their pest. The spectacle ofthose sea-scavengers waddling through the brownstubble in pursuit of the grasshopper must have beendiverting, at least, and the occurrence was doubtlessmiraculous if true. 123
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