Item Detail
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English
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The Great Salt Lake : Present and Past
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Deseret News
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116
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"The record of fact and tradition concerning the Great Salt Lake, as written by the hand of man, dates back a little more than two centuries; but a history of times far more remote may be read from Nature's manuscript, inscribed on the stony pages of ancient shores and in the sediment which formed the floor of the lake of by-gone days.
Though generally designated by the adjective 'Great,' the Salt Lake, as we shall presently see, is but a shrunken remnant of a vastly larger water body, which once existed as a veritable inland sea, completely filling the valley in the lowest portion of which the modern lake rests, and extending beyond the northern and western boundaries of the present State of Utah. To this ancient sea the name 'Lake Bonneville' has been applied." [From the text]