Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-31

the night, my Beduin guard called me;
we made ready in a few minutes and
started far the Dead Sea. Our object
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much or the neat Oh the thiuuay us for
siblc. The distance from Jericho To
the north shore of the sen is only about
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siN "'N ia" -,
but my guiuc lost ms RECKONING Oh 'h'
desert and took the wrong track WITH
the result that we spent some two
,,,,. ,.,y,,,,,. -, ,,,,,t,,,,,- ~ and down
"Vu's '''"e go -.
the steep Eulches anu rasires' ~ '"e'
I lost patience with the poor fellow,
who WINS almost CRYING In despair, and
.,,,,.a,, a., ,.,,, -, aooa,otor ,oyseif
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KNOWING through common SENSE ,ha'
all the ravlnes which we had been en-
deayoriny to cross in the darkness of
a., ,,,ht ,,,,,,, ,oo,,,,,o,,t, ,.oa eitber
nv "s' ''
10 the Joruhn or the Deau Sea' ieu
down the first one we came to, ana ma
turally enough II brought us out upon
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'"e 'o"ei Pi'''i' "i'Ni' w e''' wv So
and the river; ana Just as the sun ap-
peared from behind the mountains of
| NOAH we stood unon the shore of the
,,t.,a,,, 49,. pti,,.,. .,,.ara ,,,o,,,
his'oiie sea' NUNS e"s' wa" "i'"'
| the beach, we soon reached place
called by the Arabs Rejum Lut, where
| stands a lonely hut and OF which, per-
| hans one hundred yards from the shore,
| a little vessel used during the tourist
! season for sailing on the briny waters
| of the sea. law at anchor. | had a fine
| swim and bnth in the sen, venturing
| out as far MS the anchored vessel.
where my Arab companion though able
| to swim. dared NOT follow. / found the
buoyancy of the waite. vary similar TO
| that of the Great Salt Lake. in Utah.
though tho water of the latter Is said
| 10 contain about ten ner cent less solid
| ,nottar tba, ~, ~ tba Dend SOC ~
must he observed bnwever that NJ.
| sea was o,Iite birh whom I visited II
| and that later IN The vear when II
reaches IT'S lowest wafer marx The
| wate, 10 necessariiy move eoity
| n 10 asserted nv some mat M ON,
was eyer drowned in Tho Deaa sat
si,nb haing the h,,ovancv Of Tho u,ato,.
tbat b,1,,an ho;,,g na,,,,,,, Iii, M.
| historian iose,bns stotas ,hat Nro,,,n
Sd, bad 49,, fhr,,,,,,, 49,, i, .,,,,, -,
hands tied re- tba,,. hac i, ava NJ ,hat un,,a
nf thew we've drau.,ad NV '''a' 'io'e
1,te ~ Gu, ~, " A. he a.
neninsu,a n,o,an ,,,. utoau
at,i,r' wa iioh, WY custe,I
hreadtb az The san an ,,'i,.i,, , ny
Snnth - ,hs ~ ~ VIM wv n',ies'
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,a .nat ~ l,,iusuln .u Wheii, IN cohse-
L. Ell, 81 .'i '.e oous VI the
~ ia'a WE'VE W nrteeh ieet,
~ e,,' =, Inv 70 "a. d iiia,sn, me shores
| s 10, ~. %. - io"e aiu siooiny iune ar
| cliffs rising into ragged snijntered
| points forming an Irregular brea al work
| sometimes recedine n little from The
| waters edge and then again iuttinp
from i 500 to 500 feet Tbe wastsrn
shore presents much the same stern
| and forbidding aspect, but preserves a.
general outline about four hundred feet
| lower
Embedded deep in this awful chasm
| under II burning sun reflected from
| beetllng heights on either side, this sea
| becomes n vast caldron, from which
the evaporation Is so great In summer
| as to render the waters intensely sa-
| line. There is also an infusion of
other ingredients which renders the
| water bitter and nauseous to the taste.
| No living thing inhabits these waters,
and 1t is very rarely navigated by
i man. No deadly miasma, however.
arises from it, as was once supposed.
| The water is of dun green color,
highly transparent. Modern science
has solved all the mystery about this
water. 1t has been satisfactorily ana
| lyzed. and Its specific gravity ascer-
tanned to be 12ll, a degree OF density
unknown In any other, the specific
| gravity Of fresh water being L. 900. The
water of the Dead Sea has been found
to hold in solution the following pro-
portions of salt to one hundred grains
of water:
Muriate of lime 900 grains
Nitrate Of mnynesio 10 Sle s,rains
Mnriote Of soda 10 sG0 srains
SuInhnte Of Iime q 0S4 Srains
80 o
81 5so o-,o,na
M. -, c., a., 200 .
ine ieNei % the peau ga ~ i,-'9 rec.
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