This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...c. 85; Theodoret, Qucest. in Gen. 59; Ritter, Erdk. ii, 345; Buckingham, Mesopot. p. 346). Neither were the ancient Jews unacquainted witli the medicinal properties of that mineral (Josephus, War, iv, 8, 4). Asphaltum was also used among the ancient Ejyptians for embalming the dead. Strabo (xvi) and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...c. 85; Theodoret, Qucest. in Gen. 59; Ritter, Erdk. ii, 345; Buckingham, Mesopot. p. 346). Neither were the ancient Jews unacquainted witli the medicinal properties of that mineral (Josephus, War, iv, 8, 4). Asphaltum was also used among the ancient Ejyptians for embalming the dead. Strabo (xvi) and many other ancient and modern writers assert that only the asphalt of the Dead Sea was used for that purpose; but it has in more recent times licen proved, from experiments made on mummies, that the Egyptians employed slaggy mineral pitch in embalming the dead. This opera tion was performed in three different ways: first, with sla/gy mineral pitch alone; second, with a mixture of this bitumen and a liquor extracted from the cedar, called cedoria; and third, with a similar mixture, to which resinous and aromatic substances were added (HaDy, Mineral, ii, 315). See Bitumen. Asphaltum is found in masses on the shore of the Dead Sea, or floating on the surface of its waters. Ik. Shaw (Travels in Barbary and the Iterant) was told i li.it this bitumen, for which the Dead Sea is so famous, rises at certain times from the bottom of the sea in large pieces of semi-globular form, which, as soon as they touch the surface and the external air operates upon them, burst asunder in a thousand pieces with % terrible crash, like the pulvis fulminant of the chemist1. This, however, he continues, only occurs along the shore; for in deep water it is supxsed that these eruptions show themselves in large columns of smoke, which are often seen to rise from the lake. The fact of the ascending smoke has been much questioned by naturalists; and although apparently confirmed by the testimonies of various travellers, collected by Rusching in his Erdbesckreibung, it is not...
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