Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers,... Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 - Page 356by Richard Robert Madden - 1829Full view - About this book
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 446 pages
...on evaporation; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and... | |
| 1813 - 594 pages
...evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon, and several other streams. Several travellers, and among others TYoilo and... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 546 pages
...evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon, and seven other streams. Several travellers, and among others, Troilo and... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...on vaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon, and seven other streams. Several travellers, and among others Troilo and... | |
| 1830 - 496 pages
...lake, notwithstanding- thaitho Jordan is continually flowing into it. Dr. Shaw calculates. tha>. l;he Jordan daily sends into the Dead Sea six millions...that it varies at different periods. Its greatest breadth,4o|es not exceed ten miles, and its extreme length isabouitt *'j.:ij/l ji.i."f«'.vr;' •... | |
| 1830 - 318 pages
...bromine 9.58 Chloride of magnesium - 5.28 Chloride of calcium ----- 3.05 Sulphate of lime 1.34 19.25. " The most extraordinary circumstance perhaps to be...does not exceed ten miles, and its extreme length is about seventy. EFFECTS OF THE SULPHURETS OP ARSENIC AND OTHER METALS ON THE ANIMAL SYSTEM. IN order... | |
| 1830 - 530 pages
...that there is no visible outlet to the lake, notwithstanding that the Jordan is continually flo\viiijr into it. Dr. Shaw calculates that the Jordan daily sends into the Dead Sea six millions nnd ninety thousand tons of water, and yet there is never any visible increase or diminution in the... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1835 - 378 pages
...evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and... | |
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