Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — The Dead Sea. [ARTICLE]

The Dead Sea.

There is absolutely no foundation for the statement, sometimes heard in certain quarters, that swimming the Dead sea Is impossible. On the contrary,’ owing to the buoyancy of the water, it is almost impossible not to swim. Equally fabulous is the idea that no animal or vegetation can live near 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 whs| this means may he 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, 86 pounds. The Red sea, the saltiest of all next to the Dead sea, has only 93 pounds.