Pyramid Lake by Sel.

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 36.

Pyramid Lake.

By Sel.

Pyramid Lake, Nevada, which has no outlet, is nearly forty miles long by from fifteen to twenty miles in width. It has an elevation of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is 2,247 feet lower than Lake Tahoe, the principal source of its main feeder. Great Salt Lake, on the eastern side of the Great Basin, is the only larger lake on the whole plateau. It is seventy miles long by about thirty wide. The elevation of the Great Salt Lake is also about 200 feet greater, which shows, as do many other things, that the grand interior plateau has a slight inclination or dip to the westward, and also to the southward toward the Colorado River. Lake Tahoe is smaller than Pyramid Lake. It is only thirty miles long by from eight to fifteen miles in width. Pyramid Lake is larger than the Dead Sea, which, according to the surveys of Lieutenant Lynch, is a trifle over forty miles long, with an average breadth of only eight or nine miles. It is much larger than the Sea of Galilee, which is only sixteen miles long and five or six miles wide.—Sel.