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Title: Around the world in eighty days
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and towards half-past twelve it reached the north-west border of the Great Salt Lake. Thence the passen-gers could observe the vast extent of this interior sea,which is also called the Dead Sea, and into which flows anAmerican Jordan. It is a picturesque expanse, framed inlofty crags in large strata, encrusted w^ith white salt,—asuperb sheet of water, which was formerly of larger extentthan now, its shores having encroached with the lapse oftime, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increasedits depth. The Salt Lake, seventy miles long and thirty-five wide,is situated three miles eight hundred feet above the sea.Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression istwelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerablesalt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solidmatter, its specific weight being 1170, and, after beingdistilled, looo. Fishes are of course unable to live in it,and those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber^and other streams, soon perish.
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TBE GEEAT SALT LAKE. (Page 226. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 22/ The country around the lake was well cultivated, for theMormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens fordomesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and othercereals, luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rose, clumps ofacacias and milk-wort, would have been seen six monthslater. Now the ground was covered with a thin powderingof snow. The train reached Ogden at two oclock, where it restedfor six hours. Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay avisit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branchroad; and they spent two hours in this strikingly Americantown, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, likea checker-board, with the sombre sadness of right angles,as Victor Hugo expresses it. The founder of the City ofthe Saints could not escape from the taste for symmetrywhich distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons. In this strangecountry, where the people are certainly not up to the levelof their institutions, ev

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