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day, making topographical sketches as they went, + touching at a 
copious stream Peg 3 from hot speeeey and the mouth the river 
seen awaited theft 
“In passing the mountain of Uzdom, | Sodom,) we unexpectedly and 
much to our astonishment,” continues our adventurous explorer, ‘‘ saw 
a large, rounded, turret-shaped column facing towards southeast which 
proved to be of solid rock salt,.capped with carbonate of- ‘i one 
mass of crystallization. Mr. Dale took.a sketch of it, and Dr. An- 
derson and I with great difficulty landed and procured specimens 
m it.” 
The a soon proved so shallow that they could proceed no further. 
Half a nile from the southern shore: ound: but six inches water, 
and beyond, an extensive ant | for a foot- 
_ Near the eastern shore they enco ered a sirocco, whi ch came 
sweeping from the southeast across the desert of Arabia with a stifling _ 
heat. At 8 pv. m. their thermometer, which before had ranged from ‘ 
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p.to. 97°, ewe at 106°. “ We could. not take our tents with’ us 
says the antieaiia, bs from which we are quoting, “nor did we 
need them, as we found it more — sleeping in the open air 
past the Sake as 
- Having cireumnavigated the lake and returning to their place of 
departure, they found the sad intelligence of Mr. Adams’s death awaiting 
a arrival, Their colors,were lowered at half mast, _ there out 
Sacred Americans paid a tribute to the me oe the or and 
statesman, with twenty-one minute guns fired ‘from 
The echoes from the cavernous recesses of the lofty and barren moun- 
tains, sc surrounded them, startled the Arabs, and’ reverberated 
ia: letters of Lieut. Lynch giving an account, currente calamo, of 
Gotatstions are of great value and exceeding interest. We ho 
oon to have the pleasure of announcing his return to the United “States 
an awe om and_his companions baek to country, home a 
“ Wet have,” ee hey ** elicited several facts of interest to the man 
of ‘science and the C 
“The bottom of on northern half of this sea is-almost an entire 
plain. Its meridional lines ata short distance from the shore scarce 
bottom is generally an incrustation 
of salt, but the intermediate one is soft mud with man rectangular 
crystals—mostly cubes—of — salt. At one time Stellwagen’ s lead 
n we landed at Uzdom, in the space of an hour, our footprints were 
coated with crystallizations. 
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ster Sunday, the party resumed operations the nest 
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