A NEW SUMMER-KESORT. 



covered in this same formation. Green Lake is situated where the Salina or 

 Onondaga salt-group is much thicker than it is farther west. This being the 

 central and deepest part of the ancient inland sea, the evaporation of whose 

 waters left the deposit of salt, it is but fair to infer that the salt-beds were here 

 at their maximum thickness. In other parts of the world there are beds of salt 

 measuring thousands of feet in thickness. 



A practical conclusion is that the salt-beds should not be searched for where 

 there is evidence of subsidence having taken place, but only in districts where 

 the strata have never been disturbed. 



Whatever explanation Science may ultimately give of the formation of Green 

 Lake, it requires no scientific knowledge to see that it is a very remarkable, in- 

 teresting, and beautiful place in a state of Nature ; and that, with but slight im- 

 provement, it would deserve to rank with the best of American summer-resorts. 

 The property has been lately purchased by James Macfarlane, Esq., of Towanda, 

 Pennsylvania, the geologist, and he will soon cause it to be prepared for visitors 

 in 1879, and such improvements- to be made as the public patronage may war- 

 rant. To the neighboring city of Syracuse, five hundred feet below it, and all 

 Central New York, it will supply what may be called a public want, as there 

 is nothing in the vicinity to be compared with Green Lake. 



September 3, 1878. 



