never overflows its Banks. p 



to my Calculation) as falls into it not only from the Rher Jor- 

 dan, hut from the Arnon to the Eaft. 



But, in the firft Place, why iliould this Calculation be at all The Quan- 

 queftioned, 'till fuchTime as we know the Swiftnefs, together coiurbuted 

 with the Capacity o^ t\\Q yirnon} For, I have proved, {Trav.«o» &c. noc 

 ut fupra ) that the River Jordan alone, is not fufficicnt to 

 fupply above two third Parts of the daily Expence in Vapour. 

 Other Rivers confequently muft be called in, to keep up the 

 Equilibrium. The Brook Cedron, as it is, for the moft part 

 of the Year, dry, can be of little Affiftance. Neither is it known, 

 (inafmuch as we are ignorant of their refpedlive Momenta,) 

 what Qiiantity of Water may be thrown in by the Arnon \ 

 or by other Rivers and Torrents that may poflibly fall from 

 the Mountains of Moah, into the 'Dead Sea. 



It is probable likewife, that the Dimenfions of the 2)5^/^TheDimen- 

 Sea ' may be larger; and that the Depth of the Jordan may be oeadsea^nd 

 fmaller, at fomeSeafoiis of the Year, than what I have made "ot fuffid- 

 them. However, notwithftanding fome Part or other of the 

 Calculation, which I have given, may be faulty or erroneous ; 

 notwithftanding likewife that great Allowances are to be fome- 

 times made, for uncommon Inundations ; yet ftill the Matter 

 of Fadl, I prefume, will hold good, and ftand the Teft of future 

 Difcoveries and Obfervations: viz. that The Dead Sea, one 

 Tear with anothsr, receives no ynore IVater hy the Rivers, which 

 e?npt/ tbe?nfelves into it, than it lofes hy the Vapours, that are 

 exhaled from it hy the Sun. 



But I am not fo much furprized at the Oppofition I meet The fame 

 with from this Author, upon this Subjed; as that the Matter g"'keprup 

 of Fa6l itfelf, (as far as I can inform myfelf,) lliould not, longQiXe!' ^''^ 

 ago, have been taken Notice of and confidered, by fome one 

 or other of thofe curious Travellers, (and there have been 

 a great many) who have been very well acquainted with the 

 Jordan and the T)ead Sea. For the latter is not the only 

 large Expanfe of Water, where the Equilihrium betwixt the 

 Expence of Vapour and the Supply from Rivers is conftantly 

 kept up. The like is common, without the leaft Sufpicion 

 of any fubterraneous Outletts, to the Cafpian Sea, and to an 



1 Vid. Trav. p. 374. Not. i, 2. &c. 



2 Afphaltites longicudine cxcedit centum M. [affuum, latitudine maxina xxv. (lxxv. 

 On.) implet, minima lex. Plhi. Nat. Hift. 1. y. c. 16. 



C infinite 



