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Show ! . - '. Xlie-Hottet Beglon. , Careful observations and comparisons made by scientific Americans prove that the hottest region on the earth is on the southwestern coast of Persia, where Persia Per-sia borders the gulf of the same name. For forty consecutive days in the months of July and August the thermometer ther-mometer has been known not to fall lower than 100 degs. night or day, and to often run up as high as 128 degs. in the afternoon. : , At Bahrin, in the center of the torrid part of the torrid belt, as though it were nature's intention to make the region as unbearable as" possible, no water can be obtained from digging wells 100, 200 or even 500 feet deep, yet a comparatively comparative-ly numerous population contrive to live there, thanks to copious springs which break forth from the bottom of the gulf, more than a milo from shore. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |