| Show A airier XI inland nd on the african shore near the gulf i of aden and connecting the lake of A assal s1 sa with ith the nain ocean may be found one of the not no t wonderful rivers in the world this natural curiosity i in n the shape of a river does not flow to but from the ocean toward the inland the surface of lake assal asa il is nearly seven Ji hundred undred feet below the sea level and it is fed altogether by this paradoxical river the latter being about twenty two miles in length it is said to be a wonderful fact that this river of immense volume especially at high tide furnishes exactly enough water to counterbalance the extraordinary evaporation of the lake and that in consequence the lakes surface remains at a uniform level year after vear vea |
