Show 265 the other hand the lake was evidently relatively high in 1826 when James Clyman and his four companions circumnavigated it in bullboats Although little information On has been found concerning made the following that trip of exploration Clyman approached the lake on comment when he Hastings and others from California to Port Bridger over what was to become 1846 while guiding Lansford June 1 W Hastings Cut-oProceeded nearly east to the point of a high mountain Oquirrh that bounds the southern part of the greate sic lake like all the rest of salt lake I observed that this this wide spread sterility has nearly wasted away one half of its surface since 1825 sic when I floated around it in my BullBoate ff: Circumstantial evidence shows that prior to 1845 the lake had not risen much higher than it was then for a relatively long period of time Sagebrush and greasewood had "The rains of grown down to the storm line of that period years and perhaps even of centuries would be needed to cleanse the land abandoned by the lake so that it could How lo w it had bushes sustain the salt-hati- many ng dropped during the century before the advent of the white man is a matter of conjecture That the water level attained in 1873 was the highest James Clyman 6 James Clyman 7 Gilbert Lake Bonneville 221 American Frontiersman 242 |