Show A JLX traders and trappers did not make such observations the writer has found no record to show that they even noticed the peculiar formations Even Fremont although he noticed driftwood several feet higher than the present level of the lake evidently overlooked completely the marks of the prehistoric Q Lake Bonneville Likewise the Mormons who settled in the Salt Lake Valley seem not to have observed the terraces surrounding their city Howard Stansbury was the first to notice the terraces and to suggest that they were shorelines formed by the waves of a great ancient body of water While making his circuit of the Great Salt Lake in 1849 Stansbury first noted a peculiar formation at the north end of the west arm of the lake Under the date of Thursday October 25 1849 he entered in his journal:® This extensive flat appears to have formed at one time the northern portion of the lake for it is now but above its present level Upon the slope of a slightly the plain thirteen distinct sucridge connected withwater-marwere counted which had cessive benches or at one time been washed by the lake and evidently must have been the result of its action continued for The highest of these is now some time at each level If this about two hundred feet above the valley ks John C Fremont The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and to Oregon and North California 1845-4- 4 154 174 9 10 Howard Stansbury Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake 105 |