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Show Scientific men in all ages hayo been puzzled to assiga plausible reasons rea-sons for tlio Bullish u eas of sea-water. ' Two-thirds of the globe may ba said lo he covered hy tho eon; and, there-fore, there-fore, Inking an average depth at 3,000 yards, and that this body nf water contains 3i per centum of salt, wo have consequently existing in tho soa no less limn 00,000.000,000,000 tons ofoalt. Were all this water to be dried up, then we should have a deposit of dry salt over the entire bottom bot-tom of the softs equal to 150 yardB in thickness. Were it all taken from the sea and Bprcad equally over the whole surfaco of the dry loud, it would make a covering 900 feet in depth. |