26 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {January, 1913. 
other hand, the composition of we soluble constituents resem- 
bles that of the reservoirs of many enclosed basins—where 
chlorides predominate over oasoniine and alkalies over 
calcium ; and though its salinity is much less than is generally 
the case with waters which accumulate in areas of internal 
drainage, it is still considerably greater than that of the average 
lake with an outflow. The water of the Caspian Sea may be 
taken as an example for comparison. A is the mean of five 
analyses by C. Schmidt ! of water solinobad: off Baku, B is one 
by H. Rose* of water collected 80 kilometers 8.-W. of the outer- 
~ most delta island of the Volga, and C is the above analysis of 
Tiberias water, all calculated to the same percentage form. 
A. B. C. 
— Caspi | Caspian ‘Tiberias. 
'(Schmidt).| (Rose). 
Na 24-70 
54 || 93-6 22:6 
Rb 02 | 
Me [Ns OR 3-9 43 
Cs 2-29, 9-5 91 
42-04 
sg ae i 34:5 44:6 
SO, 23:99 | 195 3-0 
Co. ‘37 9-0 140 
SiO 03 ae 2°4 
a6 10000 =: 100°0——=s—«*2100°0 
Salinity (parts per million) 12940 | = 1820 _~| 536 
The satiteat in the southern part of the Caspian is much 
greater than that of the Sea of Galilee, and even in the north, 
where the water is diluted by the Volga and the Ural, it is 24 
times asigreat, but with the exception of the replacement of 
carbonates by sulphates the analyses resemble one another 
reasonably close 
The immediate reason for the peculiar composition of the 
water of the Lake of Tiberias is not far to seek, if the water 
from the springs at Tiberias is at all representative of many of 
its other sources of supply. An analysis of the water from one 
Bull. Ac. Se. St. Peter z 
lated by F. W. Clarke, Bull. U8 Ged 3 I Surv wi91, 091), p15 
Poggendorff’s Annalen, 395, (1835), p 
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