84 H. C. RUSSELL. 
1709, the Adriatic and the Mediterranean were frozen over (E) 
1717, shops were established on the Thames (A) ' 
1742, the Seine was entirely frozen over (A) 
1744, Seine entirely frozen over (A) 
1766, Seine entirely frozen over (A) 
1767, Seine entirely frozen over (A) 
1895, the Thames frozen over (A) 
(A) eleven, (D) three, (E) three. 
THE DEAD SEA. 
One finds it commonly stated in books that the Dead Sea is 
gradually drying up and perhaps it is, but there are very con- 
siderable alterations in the level of it ; for instance Lieut. Conder, 
when surveying Palestine, June 1872 to June 1875, found it did 
change its level considerably, and at page 220 of “Tent Work in 
Palestine,” he states, “Sheikh Jemil, the most intelligent Arab 
near Jericho, told me that in his father’s time the sea did not 
generally reach further inland than the Rujum el Bahr. Whereas 
now the connecting causeway is always under water. This repre 
sents a rise of some ten feet in the water level. In fact accord- 
ing to this statement, the sea had now (1873 or 1874) more water 
in it than it used to have half a century ago.” 
From this it would seem more than probable that the Dead Sea 
followed the same course as Lake George, where the water gradually 
disappeared after 1826, was all gone in 1838, and remained only 
a shadow of its true self until 1852, when it began to fill up, and 
in 1874 attained its maximum flood. Lake Titicaca followed — 
much the same order. So that we have here lakes in Asia, South 
America and Australia, drying up in the great droughts of 1828 
and 1838 and during the small rainfall of the whole period 1825 
to 1851, and filling up after that year. 
EGYPT. 
Mr. Anderson, Principal Librarian of the Public Library, bas 
given me very cordial assistance in my search for particulars of 
the climate of Egypt, and, as a consequence, I found in the works — 
