The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-06-01
LOTS wife.


From u narrative of II lAto expedition TO
tho Dead Sea. edited by f. F. MoSrAoUE, a
notice OF which we find in the last Literary
UOrid. we extract the following:
WEDNESDAY,, 2Gth.--Thie morning we arc
examining the hills of llsdom, and seeking
with a good deal OF curiosity tho ever famous
" Pillar of Salt, whcl, marks the Judgment
of God urOn Lots Wlfo. On pulling around
tho shores Of the sea we saw an immense
column, rounded and turret.shapud, facing
towards the southeast. Ths, we are told
by our Arabs. was the Pillar of Salt in
which Lots Wife was encased at the over
throw of Sodom
With some difficulty we landed here, and
our estoomed commander aud DR.. Anderson
obtained specimens Of it. Our boats crew
landed also. and their curiosity was graft
fled by gathering specimens, some from its
summit and others from its basis. II was
moasared and found to be sixty feet in
hight and forty feet in circumf romeo. We
cauuot suppose that Lots wife was q per-
son 80 largo that hor dimensions equaled
those Of this column. Many think that
stature Of Lots wife was equal TO the pillar
oil salt which tho Biblo speaks Of, let that
pillar he where it may. aud whatever be its
size. They will not probably credit this
is tho pillar, their preconceived notions
having much to do with the matter, and
they would have every body think that
she was at once transformed into column
Of vury Gne.grained, beautiful While salt,
about five feet or q few inches more in
hight aud in circumference, that of com
mon sizsd person OF tho nineteenth century.
BE that as il may, no two mindg have, per-
hape, formed exactly the same opinion on
this matter who have not visited this spot.
But here we are, around this immense
column, and we find that it is really of solid
rock salt, one mass Of capitalization. 1t is
in the vicinity which is pointed out in the
Bible in relation to the matter in question
and il appears to bo the only ore OF its kind
here. And the Arabs of the district to
whom this pillar Ia pointed out, declare
it to be that OF Lots wife, the identical
pillar of salt TO which the Bible has refer
onco. The tradition having been handed
down from each succeeding generation to
their Children as tho Americans will hand
down to succeeding generations tho tradi.
tion of Bunker Hill Monument near Boston.
NV own opinion of the matter is, that Lots
wife having fingered behind in disohcdicnce
to the expressed command of God-given
in order TO insure her safety that while so
lingering she became overwhelmed in the
descending fluid an | formed the model or
! foundation of this extraordinary column. It
/ ithad been produced Ivy common, by natural
causes it is but right to suppose that
others might loo found of similar descrip.
| ton Ono is scarcely able to abandon the
! idea that il stands hero lasting memorial
of Gods furnishing most deliberate act of
| dispbcdiencc committed at a time when he
was about to show distinguishing regard
for the very person, We carefully brought
away our specimens, intending to show
them to our friends in America, when we
shall have the good fortune to arrive there
and talk with them on the subject,