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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and as it is in some places 1300 feet deep, its bottom is just about as much below sea level as Jerusalem is above it. On both sides it is surrounded by steep mountains. It has no outlet to the ocean; and indeed if any communication with the ocean existed, the water from the ocean would flow into the Dead Sea, and would flood what is now the Valley of the Jordan. Lying so low, and being on all sides surrounded with mountains, the heat is tropical and evaporation is rapid. As in other inland lakes having no outlet to the sea, the water is intensely salt, three pounds of it yielding one pound of solid salts. Much of this salt, however, is derived from the gradual washing down of great hills of rock salt, three hundred feet high, called JcM I'sdum, or the Mountain of Sodom, which lie at the south end of the Dead Sea, and cover an area of seven miles by three. From the bitumen which is still found on the shores and occasionally floating on the surface, the Dead Sea was sometimes called Lake Asphaltites. A large mine of bitumen exists at llashbeva, at the head of the Jordan. There was a time, long before the earliest records of historv, when the Dead Sea was 1400 feet higher than it is now. The whole Jordan Valley was then one great fresh-water lake, and was probably connected with a chain of lakes in eastern Africa. The process by which its level has been changed has left marks which are easily read and understood by the geologist. The fourth and last section of the Holy Land is the mountain range and plateau lying beyond Jordan and spreading out to the eastward. It is a prolongation of the Anti-Lebanon range. From Hermon to the river Jabbock lies Bashan, including the Hauran, afterward Dead Sea. called Auranitis, bevond which lay Bozra or Bostra. Joining Bashan, and extendin...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458895622 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458895629 |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $23.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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