Show 12 account of Island He vae of it found it insects lying it in tlie vicinity of Mud "to consist almost entirely of the lar- as lie encountered upon the bottom and seemed to be all the villainous smells which nature’s 19 Ludlow continues was of producing" capable laboratory impregnated with his description:® the larvae present along a rod of that shore Black Rock assassins mosquitoes represented a host of those midnight Utah Territory stark mad large enough to have driven all and sucked every Saint in it as dry as parchment though its population ivere as densely packed as that of China This presence of swarms of mosquitoes is a condition very obnoxious to most lake visitors This brings up a point often misunderstood by most people that of life in the lake Of course no fish can live in the concentrated brine but other life does thrive in it The larvae referred to above develop into a species of small flys or knats so common around the lake In the water itself a tiny brine shrimp is found This is a pinkish orange colored creature with large black eyes and five pairs of flimsy bristle-lik- e legs It often reaches as much as half an inch in length although most specimens are smaller These little animals can often be seen in calm 19 Stansbury Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake 164 20 Ludlow Heart of the Continent 398 |