Black Rock Desert

a tract of nearly 1,000 square miles, N. of Pyramid Lake, in Nevada. In summer it is a barren level of alkali and in winter covered in places with shallow water. Called also “ Mud Lakes.” Black Rood of Scotland, a cro of gold in the form of a casket, alleged to contain a piece of the true Cro . ‘2 Black Sea (ancient Pontus Euxinus!, a sea situated between Europe and Asia, and mainly bounded by the Ru ian and Turkish dominions, being connected with the Mediterranean by the Bosporus, Sea of Marmora, and Dardenelles, and by the Strait of Kertsch with the Sea of Azov, which is, in fact, only a bay of the Black Sea; area of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov about 175,000 square mailes, with a depth in the center of more than 150 fathoms and few shoals along its shores. The water is not so clear as that of the Mediterranean, and is le salt on account of the many large rivers which fall into it.