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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 293
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the Dead Sealies at a greater depth below sea-level than anyother lake. Another remarkable characteristic of the DeadSea is that its water, though beautifully clear, isintensely salt and has a bitter, disagreeable taste.It is six times more salt than ordinary sea-water,for salt composes twenty-five… … © Underwood & Underwood THE WILDERNESS SOUTH OF TH1 I9I7-] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 175 Mr. Arthur M. Reeves, an American scholar,gives his experience after bathing in the lake: I lay flat on the water, and without any exertionwhatever, I floated on the surface. Next I lay on myside,…Children's literature
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