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[David Morris]

On 5/17/07, Jasper <jasper.fidget at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "'here would thou our visitor's body rest,' here in some wet salt desert"
> Venice?  Alexandria?  Jerusalem?  I don't friggin' know.
>
> And why the quotes around 'here would thou our visitor's body rest'?  Speak up.

I don't know what the passage is refering to, but the quoted part
sounds like a passage from some holy text.

But a peice of land that fits this description (wet salt desert) is
the Great Salt Desert in Utah:

http://www.utahcrossroads.org/G_HR_Tea.htm

The flats look deceptively solid, but water is often only a few inches
below the surface. Should a vehicle, whether a wagon drawn by oxen or
a modern four-wheel-drive, break through the thin dry crust in these
wet areas, the deeper its wheels go the softer the muck and in moments
the conveyance can be settled to its hubs in the sticky mire. Both 150
years ago and today this common occurrence is a serious emergency with
property and even life at stake. That wagons stuck in this unique mud
could not be salvaged and had to be abandoned where they lay is no
mystery to the modern visitor to the area. An almost always harrowing
corridor for the pioneers, to this day, no one may safely venture here
without adequate equipment and preparation and few people do.