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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 294

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is sea 6,500,000 tons ofwater every day. But, although receiving thishuge amount of water, the sea has no outlet, noriver to carry away this great mass of water tothe ocean. Formerly people thought that there was an outlet through underground channels, butthis is impossible, because it lies so far… … (Q Underwood & Underwood ON THE NORTH SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA, LOOKING SOUTHWEST produce an excessively sultry, stifling, tropica!heat in this deep pit half of the year, and thewater evaporates very rapidly, while any heaviersubstance which the water held in solution re-mains behind. This, going…

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