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tation, adds the author, in saying, that the sea which occupies 

 the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adam, Seboim, and Segor, 

 covers the crater of a volcano ; and that, in all probability, 

 heaven made that mode of destruction the instrument of 

 Divine vengeance. A bottle of the water of the Dead Sea, 

 which Mr. Madden brought home with him, was analyzed last 

 winter by Dr. William Gregory, at the London University. The 

 following is his analysis : — 



" Chloride of sodium, with a trace of bromine 9.58 

 Chloride of magnesium . . . 5. 28 



Chloride of calcium .... 3.05 



Sulphate of lime . . . 1 5im< . 1.34 



■ it h i\Kjh J ' / firf 

 19.25. 



" The most extraordinary circumstance perhaps to be remarked 

 is, that there is no visible outlet to the lake, notwithstanding that 

 the Jordan is continually flowing into it. Dr. Shaw calculates that 

 the Jordan daily sends into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety 

 thousand tons of water, and yet there is never any visible increase 

 or diminution in the height of the water, though Chateaubriand 

 erroneously states that it varies at different periods. Its greatest 

 breadth does not exceed ten miles, and its extreme length is about 

 seventy." 



With this we must conclude our extracts from Mr. Mad- 

 den's very interesting volumes. We had marked many other 

 passages for notice, for the author was very observant, and 

 many curious facts of a scientific nature will be found dispersed 

 through his pages. But we have said enough, we think, to 

 attract the reader's attention to the work, and to impress him 

 with a favourable idea of Mr. Madden's talents. One of the 

 great merits of the book is its adaptation to so great a variety 

 of tastes. The physician, the divine, the politician, and the 

 mere lover of adventure, will find in it wherewithal to interest 

 him ; and the sketch of the work now given will, at least, suffice 

 to show, that it is not unworthy the careful perusal of the man 

 of science. 





