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Show Persia Has Salt Lmkft Larger Than Dead Sea Five thousand feet above sea level In Persia U to be found a huge, salty Inland lake. It is known na Urmia end Is 250 miles around, covering aa area of 1,000 square miles, and boasta of some DO Islands. It Is among the highest bodies of salt water on the globe. Ninety miles long by some thirty wide, It completely dwarfs tho Dead sen, something like a mile and a quarter lower In level, and contains a greater percentage of salts in solution. solu-tion. Urmia Is fed by a number of small streams und Is the catch basin for a considerable area, but as it has uo nutlet whatever except evaporation the salt that comes in stays in. Constant Con-stant leaching by the streams brings lu n continuous supply of salt, and given enough, this results In a salt lake, for while the evaporation takes care of the water It must leave the salt behind. And this Is what has happened to Urmia, For years and years It has been becoming saltier and saltier, probably exceeded In this respect only by Karabugas, the salt water annex of the Caspian sea. No fish live in it |