Show 43 called by that name The other Escalante Bay reached about 100 miles into what is now Escalante Desert and formed the extreme south end of the lake This and was valley bay filled the valley of Beaver Creek as far as ilinersville and contained several islands It was one of the shallow- est bays of the lake having a maximum depth of only 90 feet hence one of the first to dry up as the lake level receded® the west of the Sevier body were two smaller bays Yhite and Snake connected with the south end of the main The former occupied the space between body of the lake the Confusion and House Ranges One aim extended so far to To the south that it almost connected with the Breuss Bay almost making the House Range into an island projected south along the parallel Snake Bay boundary to the Utah-Neva- da thirty-nint- h where an arm ran eastward several miles This was also a very shallow bay shorelines of ancient Lake Bonneville are so striking that even the most casual tourist cannot help but observe them No geological training is necessary for such The an observation Rather than obscure markers on the hills these lines form distinct terraces on the mountain sides surrounding the present lake It is phenomenal that the fur 8 Gilbert Lake Bonneville 125 |