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Fishes are , of course , unable to live in it , and those which descend through the Jordan , the Weber , and other streams soon perish . The country around the lake was well cultivated , for the Mormons are mostly farmers ; while ranches and pens for domesticated animals , fields of wheat , corn and other cereals , luxuriant prairies , hedges of wild rose , clumps of acacias and milk-wort , would have been seen six months later . Now the ground was covered with a thin powdering of snow . The train reached Ogden at two o'clock , where it rested for six hours . Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City , connected with Ogden by a branch road . They spent two hours in this strikingly American town , built on the pattern of other cities of the Union , like a checker-board , `` with the sombre sadness of right-angles , '' as Victor Hugo expresses it . The founder of the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons .