Cent, requires a long time, and the cold weather is over before it is accomplished.

In the shallower portions, the surface of the water may reach the temperature of congelation, but the agitations due to the action of strong winds soon breaks up the thin pellicle of ice, which is quickly melted by the heat generated by the mechanical action of the waves.

Nevertheless, in shallow and detached portions of the Lake, which are sheltered from the action of winds and waves--as in Emerald Bay--ice several inches in thickness is sometimes formed.
[Illustration: Lily Lake] [Illustration: Cave Rock, Lake Tahoe] [Illustration: Pyramid Peak and Lake of the Woods] [Illustration: Clouds Over the Mountain, Lake Tahoe] (4.) _Why Bodies of the Drowned do not Rise_.

A number of persons have been drowned in Lake Tahoe--some fourteen between 1860 and 1874--and it is the uniform testimony of the residents, that in no case, where the accident occurred in deep water, were the bodies ever recovered.

This striking fact has caused wonder-seekers to propound the most extraordinary theories to account for it.