1876.] The Great Salt Lake in Former Times. 675 
= Aninteresting fact in relation to this form of Indian relic is . 
_ that it is quite as characteristic of the Mound-Builders as of the 
Atlantic coast natives. As it is a peculiar form of stone imple- 
ment, and not one that is likely to occur with two widely sepa- 
rated and very different races, it argues a nearer relationship of 
the Mound-Builder and the Indian than is supposed by many to 
_ have existed. 
In the specimen here figured! we see a highly polished and 
nearly symmetrical worked stone, suggestive of no domestic use, 
and valueless as a weapon or hunting implement. Its whole ap- 
pearance indicates that a vast amount of labor has been expended 
upon it ; furthermore, it is quite elaborately ornamented. Again, 
the perforation shows that it was mounted upon a slender handle, 
and thus wielded it becomes intelligible as an indication of the 
superior rank of its possessor — possibly a veritable sceptre in 
the hands of a prehistoric American king. 
THE GREAT SALT LAKE IN FORMER TIMES. 
HE Great Salt Lake of Utah was discovered in 1833 by 
Captain Bonneville, although his account of it was not pub- 
lished until ten years later by Washington Irving in The Ad- 
ventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Moun- 
_ tains and the Far West. It was more fully described afterwards 
by Frémont and Stansbury, though but little light has been 
thrown upon the early history of the lake, until within a few 
a years. ` In his report on the geology of Wyoming and contiguous 
Territories, for 1870, Dr. F. V. Hayden thus describes the lake 
ds and appearance of Great Salt Lake in the Quaternary 
Period ; — 
“If now we pass to what may be called for 
_ Waternary period, or the one that gradually merges into the 
P resent, we shall find that it presents geological features of no 
7 ordinary interest. In descending the Weber Vall 
emerge from the cañon of the Wahsatch range into the open val- 
ley of Salt Lake, we observe on either side thick beds of sand 
~. arenaceous clays, which must have been deposited in the 
Wet waters of a lake. In the valley of Salt Lake, and espe- 
tially in that of the Weber River, these drift deposits possess a 
EE ey Re ae eS. Soe 
convenience the 
ey, after we 
S. Haldeman, in an island in the Susque- 
1 Thi 
4 S speci 
pecimen was found by Prof. S ion of a pen-sketch, in a 
aea River, Pennsylvania. The illustration is a reproduct ' 
Y to the author, referring to Indian relics found in Pennsylvania. 
