. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ere are also all along the westernside a considerable number of springs—some fresh,some salt, some warm and fetid—which appear torun continually, and all find their way into itswaters. The lake has no outlet. 3. The de-pression of its surface, and the depth which it at-tains below that surface, combined with the absenceof any outlet, render it one of the most remarkablespots on the globe. According to the observationsof Lieutenant Lynch, the surface of the lake in May, 984 SEA SEA 1S4S, was 1, feet below the level of the Medi-terranean at Jaffa;
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ere are also all along the westernside a considerable number of springs—some fresh,some salt, some warm and fetid—which appear torun continually, and all find their way into itswaters. The lake has no outlet. 3. The de-pression of its surface, and the depth which it at-tains below that surface, combined with the absenceof any outlet, render it one of the most remarkablespots on the globe. According to the observationsof Lieutenant Lynch, the surface of the lake in May, 984 SEA SEA 1S4S, was 1, feet below the level of the Medi-terranean at Jaffa; according to the observations ofthe French Expedition of Due de Luynes in 1864,the surface was 1,286 feet below the upper portion, according to Lieutenant Lynch, is a perfect basin, descending rapidly till it attains, atabout one-third of its length from the N. end, adepth of 1,308 feet. Immediately W. of the upperextremity of the peninsula, however, this depth de-creases suddenly to 336 feet, then to 114, and by the. Map and Longitudinal Section tfro:n N. to S.), of the DEAD SEA, from the Observations, Surveys, and Soundings of Lynch, Robinson, De Snulcy, Vandt Velde, Ac, drawn under the superintendence of Mr. Grove by Trelawney SnundtrB. SUftrmcet.—]. Jericho. S. Ford ot Jordjin. 3. Wady Gximran. 4. Wad; Zerka ilam. 5. Oil tl-Ft>hU,ah. 6. A in Ttrihth. 1. lUt Mtrnd. ; Mi jilj. 9 Ainjidy. 10. Birttl <l-giuhl. 11. SMek. 12. (f ady Zuvcirah from N. W, and Wady tl-Muhauwat from S. W. 13. Um2*1. 14. Kkatkm Uidum. 15. Wady Fikrtk. 16. Wady tl-Jeih. 17. Wad; Tu/ilth. 18. Ohir U-Bitfith. 19. Plain a-Sabkak. SO. Wady ed-D*raak,or Wady Ktrak. 21. The Peninsula. 22. The Lagoon. 23. The Frank Mountain. 24. Bethlehem. 25. Hebron. time the west point of the peninsula is reached, to18 feet. Below this the south -rn portion is a merelagoon of almost even bottom, varying in depth from12 feet in the middle to 3 at the edges. 4. Thelevel of the lake is liable
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