Show 12 account of it it in the vicinity of Mud Island He found it "to consist almost entirely of the larvae of insects lying upon the bottom and seemed to be impregnated with all the villainous smells which nature’s as lie encountered was capable of producing" 19 Ludlow continues laboratory his description:® the larvae present along a rod of that shore Black Rock represented a host of those midnight assassins mosquitoes enough to have driven all Utah Territory stark mad largesucked and every Saint in it as dry as parchment though its population were as densely packed as that of Ghina This presence of swarms of mosquitoes obnoxious to most lake visitors is a condition very 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 the Great Salt Lake 20 Ludlow Exploration and Survey of the Valley of 164 Heart of the Continent 598 |