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The Lake of the Sky

CHAPTER XVIII
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[This was written in 1882.] A lady tourist from Massachusetts has, it is believed, the honor of first pointing it out.

Nature cannot forget her Shakspeare.

So we all mused, and, musing, would have forgotten our dinners, had we not been summoned inside the hotel.

The repast was not peculiarly relishable; consequently, we had all the more opportunity to feed spiritually upon the masterpiece on the cliff,--the rock-portrait of Avon's, of England's, of the World's immortal bard.
As the steamer leaves Glenbrook one may gain clear and distinct views of the four prominent peaks of the Nevada side.

Above Lakeside, at the southeast end, is Monument Peak, then, about midway between Lakeside and Glenbrook is a sharp-pointed bare mass of rock known as Genoa Peak.


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