Bathing In The Dead Sea

Tho Qead sea, cir more properly the Salt sea, is also calied in Scripture the fioaof rbeArabnb; i.-j tho Apocrypa, the Sodoniitish r-en;in tho Talmudical books, sea of Salt and sea of Sodoni. The name Deart Sfva seens to have boen first nsed in Greck, aiid the Arabio name ia Bar Lnt, or the een of Lot. It has a length varying from 4o to 46 milos and is only about threo miles across at it broadost part. From the analysis of the United States expedition it appears that each gallon of the water, weighing 12JL pounds, contains nearly 3J ponnds (8.819) of niatter in solution, an immense quantity m view of the faot that sea water, weighing 10J- pounds per gallon, contains less than one-half pound. Of this 33 ponnds nearly a pound is common salt (ohloride of scnlinm), . abont two ponnds chloride of magnesium and less than ouehalf pound ohloride of calcium (mnriate of lime). There does not appoar to be anything about it iuimical to life, and the story of a recent tourist oonfirms this. He says: "As for tho Dead se1, it will, in contradiction of the name, forever preserve a groen and living moniory in my mind. No fish can survive in it, we all know, but for a place for a sw im, or, above all, for a float, commend me to itbeyondall the Wiunepesaukees in tbeworld. How it bears you np in armsl How it annihilates the tiresome ponderosity aud digoity of the laws of gravitation! How it introduces you into tho inner oonsoiousness of dainty ariel and thistledom and all otherairy, f airy creatures ! The more ou weigh the less you weigh. There i.s he real hydrostatio paradox. An eleihant in the Dead sea would feel himelf a gazelle. Then what a mirror its :eely surface was that morning, and iow beautif ui its reflections of the mounains of Palestino on the one hand and