Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Navigation of the Dead Sea. [ARTICLE]

Navigation of the Dead Sea.

At length tho Dead Soa is to be navigated, and two sailing boats, one rather largo and hoavy, for cargo, and tho othor smaller and neater for passengers, have just beon convoyed from Jaffa to Jerusalem by rail, and thence to tho Dead Soa by-road. The boats belong to tho Sultan, as does also the Dead Sea, which forms part of the crown property, and it is Abdul-Ha-m'id’s intention to turn to good account the salt, bitumen and sulphur that abound in Its wators and on its shore.