. Elementary physical geography . Fig. 171.A Florida swamp. recognized the fact that water formed them. One of theseextinct lakes, the ancestor of Great Salt Lake (called LakeBonneville), had an area of 19,750 square miles, with adepth of 1050 feet. It covered an area now occupied byfully 200,000 people, and its depth near the great Mormontemple was 850 feet. Swamps. — The usual way in which lakes are removed, isby the combination of the two processes of filling and down-cutting; and generally lake-filling is of more importance 304 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. than the down-cutting of the outlet. In th
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. Elementary physical geography . Fig. 171.A Florida swamp. recognized the fact that water formed them. One of theseextinct lakes, the ancestor of Great Salt Lake (called LakeBonneville), had an area of 19, 750 square miles, with adepth of 1050 feet. It covered an area now occupied byfully 200, 000 people, and its depth near the great Mormontemple was 850 feet. Swamps. — The usual way in which lakes are removed, isby the combination of the two processes of filling and down-cutting; and generally lake-filling is of more importance 304 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. than the down-cutting of the outlet. In the glacial belt ofnorthern United States, where lakes of all sizes were formedwhen the ice retreated, we find abundant illustration of everystage in the destruction of lakes. The more shallow of thesehave been transformed to swamps, which are usually a final _ ___ stage in the process of I lake destruction (Fig. rapidity of lake-filling. Ray Brook, Adirondacks. ° At first the plants aresedges and other species characteristic