. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ast there by somemighty upheavel of the mountains; leaping in wild, mad fury fromrock to rock, dashing its white foam against the walls, awakening theechoes with its unceasing song of intermingled merry laughter of rip-pling waves, and the roar of a dirge as solemn and profound as thatover a martyrs grave, as it plunges onward over rock and boulder, amass of seething, boiling waters to the quiet
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ast there by somemighty upheavel of the mountains; leaping in wild, mad fury fromrock to rock, dashing its white foam against the walls, awakening theechoes with its unceasing song of intermingled merry laughter of rip-pling waves, and the roar of a dirge as solemn and profound as thatover a martyrs grave, as it plunges onward over rock and boulder, amass of seething, boiling waters to the quiet stream that henceforth ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 259 flows peacefully on to the saline depths of the Great Dead Sea of theWest, The first allusion to this remarkable body of salt water, surroundedby streams and springs of fresh water is to be found in Baron La Hon-tans account of his American Travels in 1G89. As hitherto men-tioned in this volume, John C. Fremont first explored and described it,after traversing both its northern and southern boundaries in it was surveyed by Captain Stansbury, of the UnitedStates army, and still later by Captain R. F. Burton, an African. DEVILS GATE-WEBER CANON. explorer. It lies in a great valley of the Rocky Mountains, and meas-ures nearly one hundred miles in length by a little less than fifty milesin breadth. Near its center lie a group of islands, upon some of whichare found springs of pure fresh water, although the waters of the lakeare of such saline character that from seven quarts of the same boileddown there is extracted one quart of pure salt. It is untenanted byany living thing. Yet into this great saline lake pour continually fromthe south through the channel of the Jordan the fresh waters of UtahLake, and from the north the fresh, pure waters of Bear River, a swiftmountain stream. While there is at present no visible outlet and itssuperfluity declared to be evaporated, many there are who believe inthe exist
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