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Show ! DEAD SEA DRYIHC UP. I The Mead Sea today is a little body of sluggish, dark. greav water, : ; gathered at the bottom of the deep- ' ; est depression on the earth's sur-' sur-' fa;-e a hollow l.nQ feet below . the level of the Mediterranean. A recent scienti lie expedition has J I proved, however, that at one time its surface was on a level with that of the Mediterranean and its area more than 20 limes what it is at present. In what the geologists Call the "Cilacial peri. d," t be Jordan was an arm ol the Dead Sea and was more than l.uoufcet in depth. |