Show YIELDS APPLE OF SODOM SODO curious Cur loui plant which grows on tho the borders of the dead sea pros duces this fruit tha dead sea ben Is situated jn in tit alie southeast part ot of palestine and Is 4 ailed bythe bytha araba s bahr loot toot orSea or sea of 41 lot it la Is about 47 miles long with ah an average bread breadth of nine miles its depth adeth varies considerably it to Is led ad byllie by the jordan from the north and by many other streams but has po apparent outlet its superfluous water being supposed to be e entirely carried off of by the evaporation tile the north shores of the sea are marked by the blackened trunks and bihn branches ches of trees frees which are In crusted with salt as la Is everything that Is exposed to the spray of this sea on the southern shore Is the ilie remarkable mass of rock called sodom om it Is a narrow rugged ridge of hill extending five miles northwest and consisting of rock salt to the north of abdat and at no great distance Is the supposed site of the ancient sodom on the borders of the dead sea a curious plant grows grows which yields fruit called the apple of sodom beautiful on the outside but bitter to the taste and when matu mature refilled filled with fiber and dusts the mean level of the ilie dead sea la Is 1202 feet below the level of the mediterranean the water contains from 24 to 26 per cent of stilts salts of which 7 per cent Is common salt A saltwater salt water fish sh put into the dead sea perishes at once nonce owing to its density due t to 10 salt the water of the semis sea Is very buoyant |