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Show Dead Sea and Mediterranean"' The old question of the origin of the extreme saltiness of t lie Dead sea has received a new answer. It has ; been shown, after demonstrating that the soil and rocks can have furnished but a fraction of the quantity of salt that 1ms collected in the Dead sea basin, that the most important source of supply of this salt is atmospheric transportation by winds from tho 1 Mediterranean. This view it Is : thought", Is confirmed by the fact that 1 the ratio of chlorine to bromine ln the : Dead sea Is the same as in the Modi-(Srranean. Modi-(Srranean. Waslfington Star. |