CHAPTER IX.
THE LESSER LAKES OF THE TAHOE REGION AND HOW THEY WERE FORMED This is not to be a description of the scores of Glacial Lakes found in the Tahoe region, but an answer to the questions so often asked about practically all of these lakes, as to their origin and continuance.
Rich as our Sierras are in treasures none are more precious than these.

They give one pleasing surprises, often when least expected.
For while the tree-clusters, the mountain-peaks, and the glowing snow-banks throw themselves into our view by their elevated positions, the retiring lakes, secluded, modest, hide their beauty from us until we happen to climb up to, or above, them.
From the higher summits how wonderfully they appear.

Let the eye follow a fruitful branch of an apple, pear or peach.

How the leaves, the stem, the fruit occur, in sure but irregular order.

It is just so with the glacial lakes of the Sierras.