. The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada; its history, Indians, discovery by Fremont, legendary lore, various namings, physical characteristics, glacial phenomena, geology, single outlet, automobile routes, historic towns, early mining excitements, steamer ride, mineral springs, mountain and lake resorts, trail and camping out trips, summer residences, fishing, hunting, flowers, birds, animals, trees and chapparal, with a full account of the Tahoe National Forest, the public use of the water of Lake Tahoe and much other interesting matter . higher, and th
. The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada; its history, Indians, discovery by Fremont, legendary lore, various namings, physical characteristics, glacial phenomena, geology, single outlet, automobile routes, historic towns, early mining excitements, steamer ride, mineral springs, mountain and lake resorts, trail and camping out trips, summer residences, fishing, hunting, flowers, birds, animals, trees and chapparal, with a full account of the Tahoe National Forest, the public use of the water of Lake Tahoe and much other interesting matter . higher, and the nextwould be successively filled, and the lowest would be thelast to vanish. But this simplicity as to duration is brokenin upon in various ways, chiefly through the action of side-streams that enter the lower lakes direct. For, notwith-standing many of these side tributaries are quite short, and,during late summer, feeble, they all become powerful tor-rents in spring-time when the snow is melting, and carry notonly sand and pine-needles, but large trunks and bowlderstons in weight, sweeping them down their steeply in-clined channels and into the lake basins with astoundingenergy. Many of these side affluents also have the advan-tage of access to the main lateral moraines of the vanishedglacier that occupied the canyon, and upon these they drawfor lake-filling material, while the main trunk stream flowsmostly over clean glacier pavements, where but little mo-raine matter is ever left for them to carry. Thus a smallrapid stream with abundance of loose transportable ma-. TAMARACK AND ECHO LAKES
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