Identifier: ourcountrywest00bost (find matches)
Title: Our country: West
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: United States -- Description and travel West (U.S.) -- Description and travel Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Mass., P. Mason
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f the present lake was once the crater of a volcano, orwhether the crater was near by, throwing its jets of lavainto the cooling waters, are problems that are well-nighindeterminate. Doubtless strong testimonies could be pro-duced in favor of either hypothesis. The tallest of the pyramids in the lake are said to be somefive hundred feet high — about as large and as high as thegreat Egyptian Cheops. The smallest appear to be from tento fifteen feet in height. They are seen singly, and in groupsor clusters, irregular in height and irregular in diameter, butall of singular uniformity in shape — like an ordinary Vinverted, the angle acute at top, the apex pointed, andusually very sharp at that. Some of the pyramids are hollow, having aperturesin the sides through which otter and other fish-eatingquadrupeds go in and out. There are thousands of thesefur-bearing animals seen sporting about the pyramids. Theyare careful, however, to make their homes out of reach ofgunshot from the shore.
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PYRAMID I^AKE. 159 The lake abounds in the finest of fish, chiefly of the troutand salmon family. The waters of this and its twin brother,Winnemucca Lake, lie within the bounds of an Indianreservation in Nevada, and the fish are the exclusive propertyof the tribe of peaceable savages living on the shores. Whitemen are not allowed the privilege of fishing in the lakes,except by the grace of the Indian, and that means both littleand much — little of the grace, and much of the consequenceif you happen to be caught! You may catch a few of the fishfor your own personal use, but if you are found makingmerchandise of them, woe to the fisherman ! The provident Indian — for there are a few of them there— spends some of his time during the summer days in takingthe fish and drying them for winter use. The fish are cutopen and hung, or laid, on scaffolds erected on the shore.The hot sunshine over the white sands of the beach soon driesthe fish ready for packing away, the reflection of the h

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