A Salt Lake.
■ ■■ » The saltest place of water upon earth is, according to Consul-Gene* ral Stewart, the lake of Urumia, in Persia, situated more than four * thousand feet above the sea level. It is much salter than the Dead Sea, the water being found on analysis to contain nearly 22 per cent of salt. J The lake is eighty-four miles long and twenty-four broad, and its north- i em coasts are encrusted with a ( border of salt glittering white in the i sun. It is said that no living thing can survive in it, except a very small i species of jelly fish. :
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 February 1891, Page 3
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103A Salt Lake. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 February 1891, Page 3
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