Show 10 Antelope Island and Syracuse Point high and about 100 feet in diameter visited it First it was at least 30 feet Interested persons climbing about on it with complete safety sight of the Great Salt Lake as one emerges from any one of various canyons leading into the valley from the Wasatch range has inspired travelers of all types from tourists to mountaineers and trappers to modem remark about its unique beauty After passing through narrow canyon passes for many miles coming out into a broad valley in which lies this large lake dotted with islands the entire unlikeness of the scene if one is struck nothing else by Says George Wharton James Seen from any standpoint the Great the landscape Its pure blue when Salt it is Lake dominates calm and quiet reflects the floating glory of the dazzling clouds of the sky or when the atmosphere is murky its face is leaden and sullen and again when the winds blow waves dance and glitter swell and roll and give it quite a different appearance From any elevation especially from the foothills along white-capp- ed the base of the Wasatch mountains one gets an excellent view of this lake which "is indeed the phenomenon of the whole interior basin" ® On a clear day especially after a storm all the islands are clearly visible as are the mountains on the west shore of the lake basin a hundred miles away 15 George Wharton James Valleys 309 16 Samuel Bowles Utah The Land of Blossoming: Our New West 218 |