Show YIELDS APPLE OF SODOM Curious Plant Which Grows on tho the i Borders of the Dead Sea Produces Produces Pro Pro- duces This Fruit u The Dead sen sea Is situated In the southeast part of ot Palestine and Is F y called by the Arabs Bahr Loot or 01 Sea of Lot It Is about 47 miles long with 4 4 r an average breadth of nine miles Its V r J depth varies considerably It Is fed by the Jordan from the north and by ti 1 many other streams but has no apparent apparent ap ap- parent outlet Its Us superfluous water beh beh beIng be- be h log lag supposed to be entirely carried ort oft r by by the evaporation The north t shores of ot the sea are marked by the thet and branches of t i t blackened trunks trees which are Incrusted with salt as asIs Is everything that Is exposed to the J spray of ot this sea 1 On the southern shore Is the remarkable remarkable remarkable remark- remark able mass of ot rock called Sodom Sodom Sod Sod- om em It Is a narrow v rugged ridge of hill hili extending five miles northwest and consisting of rock salt To the north of ot and at no great distance dis- dis tance Is the supposed site of the an an- r dent Sod Sodom om T Ar On the borders of the Dead sea a I curious plant grows which yields fruit 1 j called the Apple of Sodom beautiful Pt on the outside but hut bitter to the taste and when mature filled with fiber and Wit dust fr I The mean level of the Dead s sea a Is la 1202 feet teet below the level of ot the Mediterranean Medi The water contains from r r- 24 to 20 26 per cent of salts of which 7 7 t per cent Is common salt A water salt-water fish put Into the Dead sea p perishes at rya once Owing to Its density due to salt the water of the sea Is very buoyant buoy r l ant |