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asphaltite n.瀝青巖。

asphaltum

Quite different from lake asphaltite , whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea , it contains considerable salt , and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter , its specific weight being 1170 , and , after being distilled , 1000 大咸湖的水含鹽成分很大,固體的鹽質占湖水的總重量四分之一。水和鹽的合重是一千一百七十,其中水的重量是一千。所以在這樣的湖水里魚是無法生存的。