Chapter IX: Lake Tahoe and Virginia City

Climatic Paradoxes in San Francisco—A Long Ferry-Boat—Snow-Sheds
and Donner Lake—Truckee River—Logging and Fishing—Tahoe
City—Round Trip on a Boat—A Lake amidst Snow Mountains—A
Cinnamon Bear— Butterflies, Snow, and a Blue Sky—Large Trout,
and how to catch them—Sunsets reflected in the Lake—Other
Color Phenomena—The Flume to Carson Valley—A Mountain
Railway—Desolate Nevada Mountains—Mining under a City—Gold
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