It has been reckoned that if the whole ocean dried, all the water passing away as vapour, the amount of salt remaining would be enough to cover 5,000,000 miles with a layer one mile thick.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 271, 15 November 1937, Page 10
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