Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. 



97 



858 

 350 



pears to be desirable, to present a short analysis of the pre- 

 sent state of our knowledge upon this interesting subject of 

 physical geography. 



In the third volume of his Travels in the East in 1836 and 

 1837 (Reise in das Morgenland in den Jahren 1836 and 1837. 

 Erlangen 1839), Professor Schubert, among other barometri- 

 cal results, gives the following : — 



Parisian Feat 

 aboTe the Sea. vmder the Sea. 

 Edge of the mountains of the upper valley of 



the Jordan, in a limited sense, 

 Jacob's Bridge on the Jordan, 

 Lake of Tibei;jas or Genezareth, 

 Plain of the Jordan near Jericho, 

 Northern comer of the Dead Sea, 



During the last observation, the mercury ascended beyond 

 the scale of the barometer, which was not suited for so great 

 a rise, and hence its height could only be calculated by the 

 eye. The observations moreover, are only incidental, in Schu- 

 bert's work,* and the data afforded by observation are not 

 given, although a detailed account is promised in the Munich 

 Transactions. 



The observations of M. Bertou are shortly given in the Bul- 

 letin de la Societe de Giographie, Jan. 1839, vol. x. p. 274, &c. 

 The following series of results is extracted from them. 



536 



600 



The numbers here are inches and lines of the old French 

 measurement, as is evident from the column of millimetres. M. 



* The following is the account of the level of the Dead Sea given by Dr 

 Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert in his amusing narrative : — '' We were not a 

 little astonished at Jericho, and still more at the Dead Sea, to see the mer- 

 cury in our barometer (which, as I shall afterwards mention more particu- 

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