Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1860 — A Valuable Bit ef Water. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Bit ef Water.

The Alia Californian, of November 21, gives an account of the discovery of an “inland sea” in lower California, reaching from latitude 26 degrees 41 minutes, to 28 degrees 4 minutes—about one hundred miles by fifty miles, which abounds in whales, guano and salt. That paper says the lake was discovered by Cupt. Scanman, of a whale ship, who entered it three years since and quickly filled his ship w ith oil. It abounds in whales, the/lemales resorting there to calve. He k/pf'the thing secret, returning the second time with equal success. The mate at last let the thing out by writing to a brother, who was in the same business, and eighteen whalers immediately made sail from Honolulu, only a part, however succeeded in getting into, the lake, owing to shallow water and crooked channel. It abounds also in seal. The guano islands have also been foui.d in the lake, on one of which it is estimated there are over two hundred thousand tons of guano. Immense deposits of salt, too, are found along the margin of the lake, which are of it.finite extent.