JOHN LE CONTE'S PHYSICAL STUDIES OF LAKE TAHOE In certain numbers (November and December 1883 and January 1884) of the _Overland Monthly_, Professor John Le Conte, of the State University, Berkeley, California, presented the results of his physical studies of Lake Tahoe in three elaborate chapters.

From these the following quotations of general interest are taken: Hundreds of Alpine lakes of various sizes, with their clear, deep, cold, emerald or azure waters, are embosomed among the crags of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The most extensive, as well as the most celebrated, of these bodies of fresh water is Lake Tahoe.
This Lake, ...

occupies an elevated valley at a point where the Sierra Nevada divides into two ranges.

It is, as it were, ingulfed between two lofty and nearly parallel ridges, one lying to the east and the other to the west.