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The article describes Great Salt Lake, Utah. It is now a shallow body of water, occupying an enclosed basin and subject to whatever fluctuations are dependent upon changes in the rainfall or in the rapidity of evaporation. The area of the present lake is but 2,170 square miles, with an extreme depth of 49 feet and a mean depth of 13 feet. For many years it has been a question of great interest whether or not the former enlargement at this lake was sufficient to make it pour over its rim at any point. The lake did rise till dramatic features accompanied it found an outlet and the discharge rarely, if ever, repeated elsewhere.