. A dictionary of the Bible .. . west, and as preserving a more horizontalline to the south. After passing from the Ghor es-Safieh to thenorth, a salt plain is encountered resembling theSabkah, and like it overflowed by the lake when 1 Mr. Tristram found even at the foot of the saltmountain of Usdum that about 2 feet below the saltsurface there was a splendid alluvial soil; and he hassuggested to the writer that there is an analogy betweenthis plain and certain districts in North Africa, which,though fertile and cultivated in Roman times, are nowbarren and covered with efflorescence of natron.
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . west, and as preserving a more horizontalline to the south. After passing from the Ghor es-Safieh to thenorth, a salt plain is encountered resembling theSabkah, and like it overflowed by the lake when 1 Mr. Tristram found even at the foot of the saltmountain of Usdum that about 2 feet below the saltsurface there was a splendid alluvial soil; and he hassuggested to the writer that there is an analogy betweenthis plain and certain districts in North Africa, which,though fertile and cultivated in Roman times, are nowbarren and covered with efflorescence of natron. Theeases are also to a certain degree parallel, inasmuch asthe African plains (also called Sebkha) have their saltmountain (like the Khashm Usdmn, isolated from themountain range behind, and flanked by small raamelonsbearing stunted herbage), the streams from which supplythem with salt (The Oreat Sahara, 71, &c.). They arealso, like the Sabkah of Syria, overflowed every winter bythe adjoining lake. SEA, THE SALT 1183 ^?r. The Dead Sea.—View from the heights behind Sebheh (Masada), shewing the wide beach on the Western side of the Lake, and thetongue-shaped Peninsula. From a Drawing made on the spot by W. Tipping, Esq. high (Seetzen, ii. 355). With this themountains come down abruptly on the water dur-ing the whole length of the eastern side of thelagoon. In two places only is there a projectingbeach, apparently due to the deltas caused by theWadys en-Nemeirah and Uheimir, 28. We have now arrived at the peninsula whichprojects from the eastern shore and fomrs the northenclosure of the lagoon. It is too remarkable anobject, and too characteristic of the southern portionof the lake, to be passed over without description. It has been visited and described by three ex-plorers—Irby and Mangles in June 1818; in Nov. 1855 ; and the American expeditionin April 1848. Among the Arabs it appears tobear the names Ghor el Mezrdah and Ghor el-Lisan. The latter name—
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