. A dictionary of the Bible .. . .As the most enduring result of the great geologicaloperation which determined the present form of thecountry it may be called without thekey to the physical geography of the Holy is theiefoi-e in every way an object of extremeinterest. The probable conditions of the formationof the lake will be alluded to in the course of thisarticle: we shall now attempt to describe its dimen-sions, appearance, and natural features. 2. Viewed on the map, the lake is of an oblongform, of tolerably regular contour, interrupted onlyby a large and long penin
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . .As the most enduring result of the great geologicaloperation which determined the present form of thecountry it may be called without thekey to the physical geography of the Holy is theiefoi-e in every way an object of extremeinterest. The probable conditions of the formationof the lake will be alluded to in the course of thisarticle: we shall now attempt to describe its dimen-sions, appearance, and natural features. 2. Viewed on the map, the lake is of an oblongform, of tolerably regular contour, interrupted onlyby a large and long peninsula which projects fromthe eastern shore, near its southern end, and vii-tually divides tiie expanse of the water into two tamar, the City of Palm-trees {^loivUiav); or mayarise out of a corruption of Kadmovi into Kanaan, whichin this versiiin is occasionally rendered by only warrant for it in the existing Heb. text is thename Tamar (= a pabn, and rendered ©atyaac koL ;) in ver. 19, 1174 SEA, THE SALT. the Observations. Sui\eys, and Soundings of Lynch,teudence of Jlr. Grove by Trelawuey Saunders, and lUfe Map, and Lonptudiiial Section (from North to South), of the Dead Sea, fnRobinson, De Saulcy, Van de Velde, and others, drawn under the supc:engra,ved by J. D. Cooper. J.—1. Jericho. 2. Ford of Jordan. 3. Wndy Goumran. i. Wadv Zurka Main. 5. Ras el Feshkhah. 6. Ain Terilbeh. 7. Ras8. Wady Mojib. 9. Ain Jidv. 10. Birliet el Khulil. 11. Sebbeh. 12. Wady Zuweiiah. 13. Urn Zofhal. U. KhashmUsdum. 15. Wady Fikreh. Ifi. \\&&y el Jeib. 17. Wadv Tufileh. 18. Ghor es Safleh. 19. Plain es Sabkah. 20. Wady edDraah. 21. The Peninsula. 22. The Lagoon. 23. The Frank Mountain. 2i. Bethlehem. 25. Hebron. The dotted lines crossing and recrossing the Lake show the place of the transverse sections given on the opposite page. portions, connected by a long, narrow, and some-what devious, passage. Its longest axis is situatednearly North and South. It lies between 31^ 6
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