Show 159 although a good swimmer the sudden immersion caused to take in some mouthfuls of water before rising to The effect was a most violent paroxysm of the surface the man was unfit for duty strangling andtwovomiting and He would inevitably have afterward for a day or been drowned had he not received immediate assistance and him many In light of the fact that later explorers found so snakes and mice in the vicinity of the lake and es- pecially on Fremont Island it is rather interesting to know that Stansbury found almost no wild life except the numerous birds on the islands Concerning snakes he makes the follow 25 statement 1: May ing In wandering among the artemesia today I was struck adder rather more than at by a most villainous-lookin- g two feet in length and was very near being bitten It was the first snake I had seen in the country and I think we only saw one other — a rattle snake —while we were upon the lake Stansbury and his men (some fifteen in all) accomplish ed several important '’firsts’1 They had made the first complete land circuit of the lake as well as the first triangu- lation survey of it having established 24 triangulation stations They were the first to visit many of the islands giving names to most of them: Fremont Egg Carrington Stansbury Hat and Strong’s Knob Stansbury made accurate and complete lake soundings on his various trips The deepest water found was from one location to another Gunnison only thirty six feet 25 the Great Stansbury Salt Lake His map of the lake was the first Exploration and Survey of the Valiev of 174 |