A boat of any kind is of course quite out of the question.
Some years since, however, an Englishman made an attempt to navigate this lake; for this purpose he caused a boat to be built, but did not progress far in his undertaking,--a sickness came upon him, he was carried to Jerusalem, and died soon after he had made the experiment.

It is rather a remarkable fact that, up to the present moment, no Englishman has been found who was sufficiently weary of his life to imitate his countryman's attempt.
Stunted fragments of drift-wood, most probably driven to shore by tempests, lay scattered every where around.

We could, however, discover no fields of salt; neither did we see smoke rising, or find the exhalations from the sea unpleasant.

These phenomena are perhaps observed at a different season of the year to that in which I visited the Dead Sea.

On the other hand, I saw not only separate birds, but sometimes even flights of twelve or fifteen.