History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

26 ADVENT OF TRAPPERS AND TRAVELLERS.
In Winterbotham's history published in New York
in 1795 is given a map of North America showing an
enormous nameless inland sea above latitude 42° with
small streams running into it, and south of said parallel
and east of the meridian of the inland sea is a
smaller body of water with quite a large stream flowing
in from the west, besides three smaller ones from
the south and north. As both of these bodies of
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water were laid down from the imaginations of white
men, or from vague and traditionary reports of the
natives, it may be that only the one Great Salt Lake
was originally referred to, or it may be that the original
description was applied to two lakes or inland seas.
The native village on one of the southern tributaries,
Taguayo, refers to the habitations of the Timpanogos,
and may have been derived from the Spaniards; but
more probably the information was obtained through