Show the next hottest the hottest region on the earth is on the eoute coast of persia where persia borders the gulf of the same name for forty consecutive days in the months of july and august the thermometer has been known not to fall lower than dega night or day and to often run up as high as begs in the afternoon at bahlin in the center of the torrid part of the torrid belt ae though it were natures intention to make the region as unbearable as possible no water can be obtained from digging wella or even feet deep yet a comparatively numerous population contrive to live there thanks to copious springs which break forth from the bottom of the gulf more than a mile from shore the water from these ia ob tanned by divers who dive to the bottom and fill goatskin bags with th cooling liquid and beell it for a living the source of these submarine fountains is thought to be in the green hill of some or miles away |