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Show OF AMERICA. 99 or to the Prophet, are sent to graze. Like the Dead Sea of Palestine, its water is intensely salt, and no living thing is found in it. The quantity of chloride of sodium ( com mon salt) held in solution, is greater than in any body of water in the world. The density of the water of the Dead Sea is a little greater than that of Salt Lake. A compara tive analysis of the solid corstitutents of the two is as fol lows : DEAD SEA. SALT LAKE. Chloride of sodium, 10,390 Chloride of sodium, 20,196 Do. calcium, 3,920 Sulphate of soda, 1* 834 Do. magnesium, 10,246 Do. magnesium, ,252 Sulphate of soda, > 54 22,282 24,580 Thus it appears that, while the Dead Sea has of solid contents a fraction over two per cent, above that of Great Salt Lake, the proportion of common salt in the latter is nearly double that of the former. Like the Dead Sea, Salt Lake has no outlet, and is con stantly supplied with fresh water by several streams. The Jordan, running from Utah Lake, in the early summer months pours into it a body of water almost equal to that carried by its Asiatic namesake from the Sea of Gal ilee to the Dead Sea of Palestine. The Weber and Bear rivers, to which I have before referred, also empty their waters into Salt Lake. This large supply is not more than sufficient to counterbalance the loss by evaporation, except during the spring and early summer months', when the lake sometimes overflows its borders ; nor does the large quan tity of fresh water constantly pouring into it lessen its salt-ness, but, on the contrary, adds to its density. This is explained as follows : all the water of the several streams that empty into the lake have more or less of the solid con tents enumerated in the above analysis, and as only a trace of any of these passes off by evaporation, the percentage or common salt remaining in the lake becomes greater rather |