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others have been established, and large and 

 varied crops raised wherever water is introduced 

 by canals. The banks of the Colorado have been 

 closed to further floods, and the Salton Sea is 

 slowly dissipating in the hot air of the desert and 

 will become a memory to be told to generations 

 to come as a modern flood, just as hundreds of 

 other " Salton seas " have alarmed the natives 

 in other and past centuries, as there are evi- 

 dences that the to us strange phenomenon is no 

 new thing, and that the waters of the Colorado 

 have often broken aw r ay and poured into the 

 great sink of " Salton Sea." 



Anglers need not count on a new field as the 

 salt deposit will doubtless make " salt fish " of 

 all the members of the finny tribe that come in, 

 but the " sinkers " and " salmon " and carp seem 

 to survive in sufficient numbers to start the story 

 of the fishes that hear the whistle and come up 

 to the bridge to be fed. 



Some of these lines were written on the shores 

 of this mysterious sea. I have just been watch- 

 ing the moon setting in the distant mountains 

 beyond it. The blaze of light turned the surface 

 into a great path of silver that illumined the 

 dark waters and gave the sombre lake a strange 

 and, to me, uncanny appearance. Even the 

 waves that beat upon the shore had a vibrant 

 sound unlike that on an ordinary sea beach. 

 Then came the cry of some bird, and the moon 





