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Na... 24°21. 
| EE Ean 
Mg 2°35 % 
Ca 9°51 % 
Cl 55°74 9, 
SO, 07 2, 
8 167% 
CO; 4°60 % 
SiO, .. ak 
100-00 
ough the assumption of the presence of definite salts in 
such a solution is purely arbitrary, it ma ointed out as 
than the European balneologist considers necessary for the 
designation ‘‘ sulphur spring.’’ In composition and salinity this 
water resembles that represented by M. Blankenhorn’s analysis 
of Birket el Ezair water much more closely than it does the 
sample collected ws him on the same day from the Birket Ali 
h Dhaher or, as he calls it, el-Hasil. The similarity of all 
three analyses with that of the lake water is sufficiently 
obvious. 
The strata from which these springs take their rise must 
be very saline in character, and it may weil be that they repre- 
sent the leachings of the d deposits of the inland sea which, 
according to E, Hull,! filled the present Jordan Valley in Plio- 
cene times. 
** Geology and i Gecechy of coe « Petraca, P Palestine and adjoin- 
ing Districts, »” p. 79 et seg., London, 
