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Show Sea Absolutely Without Life. There are no fishes In the Dead sen no life of any kind The percentage of solids In tho water Is enormous nbout 2G per cent Tho principal solid sol-id Ingredients ore the chlorides of sodium, magnesium ami calcium. Tho deepest part of the Dead sea's bed lies 2,600 feet below the level of the Modi terrancan; Its depth there Is 1 310 feet. Oddly onough, It has a cloud system of Its own, for one may frequently fre-quently see cloud banks l.vlng over th Dead sea which are six or smeii liun dred feet below the level of the irean |