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Show YIELDS "APPLE OF SODOM" Curious Plant Which Grows on the Borders of the Dead Sea Produces' Pro-duces' This Fruit. The Dead sea Is situated In the southeast part of Palestine, and Is called by the Arabs Bahr Loot, or Sea of Lot. It is about 47 miles long, with an average breadth of nine miles. Its depth Taries considerably. It Is fed 'by the Jordan from the north, and by many other streams, but has no apparent ap-parent outlet, Its superfluous water being be-ing supposed to be entirely carried off by the evaporation. The north shores of the sea are marked by the blackened trunks and branches of trees which are Incrusted with salt, as is everything that Is exposed to the spray of this sea. On the southern shore is the remarkable remark-able mass of rock called TJdsum (Sodom). (Sod-om). It is a narrow, rugged ridge of hill extending five miles northwest, and consisting of rock salt. To the north of Cdsum, and at no great distance, dis-tance, is the supposed site of the ancient an-cient Sodom. On the borders of the Dead sea a curious plant grows which yields fruit called the "Apple of Sodom," beautiful on the outside but bitter to the taste, and, when mature, filled with fiber and dust. The mean level of the Dead sea Is 1,292 feet below the level of the Mediterranean. Medi-terranean. The water contains from 24 to 2G per cent of salts, of which 7 per cent is common salt. A salt-water fish put into the Dead sea perishes at once. Owing to its density due to sa t the water of the sea is very buoyant. |