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Show e. Remarkable Lake. j Thero la a Inko on Klliiln Inland, Pear tho con a I of Kuaslnn Ijiplanil, rhlch Is cumiKiaed of both salt and f-eah water. Tho lalnnd I a palaeo-iilc palaeo-iilc rock, separated from tho granite continent by an arm of tho sea, and upon It In a lake which acorn to be entirely nhut off fiom the aea by a atrip of land; but there niunt beaume aubtorranean communication, for the tldea of the aea are noticed In the lake, though In much diminished effect. ef-fect. The lake contains three different kinds of water. On the surface It la fresh water, corning from a fow brooks and from the rainfall; lower down It la aalt water, and at the bottom bot-tom aea water mixed with aulphur-oua aulphur-oua hydrogen una. Tho lake contain frnah water flah on and near the surface, sur-face, and salt watvr flnh beneath. |