Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal January to September November & December 1913 (New Series)

The only permanent streams other than those produced by the springs are situated in the neighbourhood of the entry of the Jordan at the norteast of the lake and on the eastern shore on which a brook flows down through the Wad-es-Semakh. [...] Though the results are far from perfect analytically and thoHgh the composition of the lake water will undoubtedly vary with the locality of the sampling place and the time of year the figures are sufficiently accurate to show how remarkably the water of the Lake of Tiberias differs from that of other lakes with an outflowing stream and from that of rivers with which the water from lakcs with [...] The compsition of this water resembles that of no other river or lake with an outflow of which I have found data with the excetion of some of the rivers flowing from arid saline regions in the middle of the United States and of the Jordan itself. [...] 23.6 3.9 9.5 34.5 19.5 9.0 100.0 1320 22.6 4.3 9.1 44.6 3.0 14.0 2.4 100.0 536 The salinity in the southern part of the Caspian is much greater than that of the Sea of Galilee and even in the north where the water is diluted by the Volga and the Ural it is 21 times asigreat but with the exception of the replacement of carbonates by sulphates the analyses resemble one another reasonably closel [...] The immediate reason for the peculiar composition of the water of the Lake of Tiberias is not far to seek if the water from the springs at Tiberias is at all representative of many of its other sources of supply.