Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — The Dead Sea. [ARTICLE]

The Dead Sea.

• There is absolutely no foundation for the statement, sometimes heard in certain quarters, that swimming the Dig'd sea Is impossible. On the contr. ry, owing to the buoyancy of the 'water, it is almost impossible not to s.-im. Equally fabulous is the idea that no animal or vegetation can live hear its shores. As to the saltness of the waters of this famous lake, it may be said that in every ton of its water there are 187 pounds of salt. Some idea of what this means may be gathered from the fact that in a ton of water from the Caspian sea there are 11 pounds of salt; in the Baltic, 18 pounds; in the Black sea, 26 pounds; in the Atlantic, 31 pounds; in the English channel, 72 pounds, and In the Mediterranean, 85 pounds. The Red sea, the sa,ltiest of all next to the Dead sea, has only 93 pounds.