[The Lake of the Sky by George Wharton James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lake of the Sky CHAPTER XVIII 3/14
The low conical peak, back of McKinney's is about 1400 feet above the Lake and used to be called by McKinney, Napoleon's Hat. The next stop of the steamer is quite close to McKinney's, viz., Moana Villa, and a mile or so further on at Pomin's, the former an old established resort, and the latter an entirely new one.
After passing Sugar Pine Point, Meek's Bay and Grecian Bay are entered.
These two shallow indentations along the shore line are places where the color effects are more beautiful than anywhere else in the Lake, and vie with the attractions of the shore in arresting the keen attention of the traveler.
Meek's Bay is three miles long, and, immediately ahead, tower the five peaks of the Rubicon Range, some 3000 feet above the Lake.
Beyond, a thousand feet higher, is snow-crowned Tallac,--_the_ mountain--as the Washoe Indians called it, the dominating peak of the southwest end of the Lake. Rubicon Point is the extension of the Rubicon Range and it falls off abruptly into the deepest portion of the Lake.
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