A dictionary of the . Tue l>ead Sea Horn Jebel Usdum CAiouiitam of Sait) : South end. (Ajter Trutram.) SAL SAL the east, south, and west sides, the mostof which are winter-torrents, completelydry in summer. The principal streams,mostly perennial, are. beginning at thenorth-east and following southward: theZerha Main (the ancient Callirrhoe. andGrove suggests possibly the more ancientEn-eglaim). the Mojib (Anion of the Bi-ble), Kerak, Siddiyeh (brook Zered), Su-fieh, and, on the west, the Ain Jidy (En-gedi). The water has a clearness and purity—in color, at least—unequalled. The tur-

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A dictionary of the . Tue l>ead Sea Horn Jebel Usdum CAiouiitam of Sait) : South end. (Ajter Trutram.) SAL SAL the east, south, and west sides, the mostof which are winter-torrents, completelydry in summer. The principal streams,mostly perennial, are. beginning at thenorth-east and following southward: theZerha Main (the ancient Callirrhoe. andGrove suggests possibly the more ancientEn-eglaim). the Mojib (Anion of the Bi-ble), Kerak, Siddiyeh (brook Zered), Su-fieh, and, on the west, the Ain Jidy (En-gedi). The water has a clearness and purity—in color, at least—unequalled. The tur-bid flood of the Jordan in times of fresh-et can be distinctly traced by its ooffee-bvown color for a mile and a half into thelake. It has been estimated that fi,000,000tons of water fall into the Dead Sea dai-ly, the whole of which enormous quantitymust be carried oft by evaporation, asthe lake has no outlet. Hence the wateris impregnated with mineral substancescontaining on an average twenty-fiveper cent, of solid subst

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