. The Contributor A Monthly Magazine. splendidBear Lake, some twenty-five miles inlength and half as wide. The water is asclear as crystal and icy cold. It is sur-rounded by well timbered mountains,with wide stretches of grassy plains be-tween their feet and the shore; and thelake itself is supplied with splendid trout,which furnish the markets of a large dis-trict in each direction. Among the big mountains of the northis Logan Canon, one of the longest inthe territory, and yielding the fineststream that waters the fertile valley ofCache. Near the head of Logan Canonis a series of alpine lakes
. The Contributor A Monthly Magazine. splendidBear Lake, some twenty-five miles inlength and half as wide. The water is asclear as crystal and icy cold. It is sur-rounded by well timbered mountains,with wide stretches of grassy plains be-tween their feet and the shore; and thelake itself is supplied with splendid trout,which furnish the markets of a large dis-trict in each direction. Among the big mountains of the northis Logan Canon, one of the longest inthe territory, and yielding the fineststream that waters the fertile valley ofCache. Near the head of Logan Canonis a series of alpine lakes of great beauty,each being the source of a stream tribu-tary to Logan River. They are separatedby majestic mountains at great altitudes,in whose recesses lie deep beds of snowthrough all the .long summer. One ofthese lakes, probably the most beautiful,is now called Lake Lucy, having beenrecently so named by the veteran photo-grapher, C. R. Savage, after one of hisdaughters. It lies deep in a most roman- 266 MOUNTAIN SCENERY OF Lake Anna. tic hollow between two enormous moun-tain masses, which a prominent citizenof Cache Valley once named Gog andMagog, after the fabled British the want of a better name the presentwriter, in sketching this lake, called itLake Magog, but in deference to , he accepts the better title, be-lieving that one who has done so muchto bring the beauty of our mountainscenery to the knowledge of many bothhere and abroad, may well be accordedmuch greater rights than the christeningof this, the only lake to which he hasever given a name in this country. It isLake Lucy, therefore, which rests sodeep and calm in this hollow of the hills,amidst forests of magnificent pines, andprotected by those two enormous rockypiles which shield it from winds and keepit in shadow nearly all the day. It is thesubject of one of our illustrations. We have scarcely alluded, so far, tothe greatest mountain chain of all thatUtah possesses, the Uintahs. Th
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