Deadwood
a city of South Dakota, on the Chicago and Northwestern, and It is Burlington and Quincy railthe Chicago, Burlington Black Hills. There are smelting and roads. It is the financial and commercial reduction works, planing mills, foundry, center for the mining region of the lime works, etc. The city contains a United States assay office, a public library, and a museum. Sea, Sea of the Plain, or East Sea; by is 46 miles long, with a breadth of from 5 to 9 miles. Its surface, which is lower than that of any water known, is 1,292 the N. section, is about 1,300 feet. The shape is that of an elongated oval, inthe N. section, is about 1,300 feet. The shape is that of an elongated oval, interrupted by a promontory which projects into it from the S. E. The Dead Sea is fed by the Jordan from the N. and by many other streams, but has no apparent outlet. Along the E. and W. borders of the of bold, and in some cases perpendicular, cliffs. These cliffs are chiefly composed of limestone, and are destitute of vegetation except in the ravines traversed by of the lake form an extensive and desoof the lake form an extensive and desolat muddy flat, marked by the blackened tunks of trees, with salt. The S. shore s low, level, and marshy, desolate, and dreary. On this shore is the remarkable ridge of rock-salt, 7 miles long and 300 feet high, called Khashm Usdom (Ridge of Sodom). Lava-beds, pumice-stone, warm springs, sulphur, and volcanic slag prove the presence here of volcanic agencies at some period. The salinity of the waters is adverse to life, though some lower organizations are found in them.
The water of the Dead Sea is characterized by the presence of a large quantity of magnesian and soda salts. Its terized by the presence of a large quanspecific gravity ranges from 1172 to 1227 (pure water being 1000). The pro- specific gravity ranges from 1172 to portion of saline matter is so great, that while sea-water contains only 3.5 per portion of saline matter is so great, that cent. of salts, the water of the Dead Sea contains upward of 26 per cent. The evaporation is great, as the heat is inevaporation is great, as the heat is inincreases. Rain hardly ever falls; the water is nearly as blue and clear as that of the Mediterranean. Owing to the great specific gravity of the water, it is in it, strive as he may. Several of those who have navigated and explored the sea have fallen victims to a fatal fever.
For the story of the "Cities of the Plain," see Gen. xix.; but according to Captain Conder, "it is now gene see Gen. xix.; but according to Captain generally agreed that by a great fault or crack in the earth's surface long before the creation of man.
MUTES, persons both deaf and dumb,