CHAPTER XXIV 



HEAD WATERS OF FAMOUS TROUT STREAMS 



IN 1613 one John Dennys wrote a clever little 

 book entitled The Secrets of Angling. The 

 author was inclined to drop into poetry and 

 some of his lines have a decided charm. 



You nymphs that in the springs and waters sweet 

 You dwelling have, of every Hill and Dale 

 And oft amidst the meadows greene doe meet 



was a part of his invocation, and his advice on 

 angling, and how to angle, can be read with 

 profit even on Tahoe, a mile above the sea, where 

 a great tourmaline seems to rest in a huge crater, 

 a gem of the High Sierras. 



Tahoe, it is said, is one of the highest and 

 deepest lakes in the world, and one cannot escape 

 from the belief that this lake, thirteen miles wide, 

 twenty-three miles long, and half a mile deep, 

 is a vast crater that ages ago spread devastation 

 around the surrounding country. To-day, Tahoe 

 is one of the most beautiful regions in the Sierra 

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