BATHING IN SALT LAKE 



and Utah railways, this magnificent lake in 

 the heart of the continent has become as acces- 

 sible as any watering-place on either coast; and 

 I am sure that thousands of travelers, sick and 

 well, would throng its shores every simamer 

 were its merits but half known. Lake Point is 

 only an hour or two from the city, and has hotel 

 accommodations and a steamboat for excur- 

 sions; and then, besides the bracing waters, 

 the climate is delightful. The mountains rise 

 into the cool sky furrowed with canons almost 

 yosemitic in grandeur, and filled with a glori- 

 ous profusion of flowers and trees. Lovers of 

 science, lovers of wildness, lovers of pure rest 

 will find here more than they may hope for. 



As for the Mormons one meets, however 

 their doctrines be regarded, they will be found 

 as rich in human kindness as any people in all 

 our broad land, while the dark memories that 

 cloud their earlier history will vanish from the 

 mind as completely as when we bathe in the 

 fountain azure of the Sierra. 



