Part 19 (1/2)

The stone is laid in ater to soak, then opened and divided by the hands, that the earthyis several times repeated, and the flax-like filaments collected and dried; these are easily spun with the addition of flax The cloth oven is best preserved by oil fro; on exposure to the fire, the flax and the oil burn out, and the cloth remains of a pure white The shorter threads, which separate on washi+ng the stone, may be made into paper in the usual manner

What is Salt?

A saline crystallization of a sharp, pungent taste, and cleansing quality, used to season flesh, fish, butter, &c, and other things that are to be kept It is distinguished, with reference to the general sources from which it is most plentifully derived, into three different sorts, na salt, or that drawn fro to the sea

_Saline_, consisting of salt

_Briny_, consisting of brine; which nify the waters of the sea, or any salt water

What is Fossil or Rock Salt?

That which is found in large beds in the bowels of the earth, and which has not undergone any artificial preparation; it is sometimes colorless, but more frequently red, yellow, or blue, and mixed with earthy impurities; this salt was entirely unknown to the ancients, who by rock salt h-water ed there by the spray of the sea, which is evaporated by the heat of the sun; this is the purest salt, and is to be found on the rocks of Sicily, and several islands of the West Indies

_Artificial_, produced by art, and the labor of man

_Evaporated_, converted into vapor and dissipated

What is Marine Salt?

That which is made from sea-water, concentrated by repeated evaporations, and at length crystallized

What is Spring Salt?

That salt which is not made froe quantities of this salt are made in the United States, in sos are numerous

In whatthe salt fro to circumstances In hot countries, the water is merely exposed to the action of the sun, until the water is evaporated; the salt procured in this manner is considered the best

What method is usually employed in countries where the sun's heat is not sufficiently powerful?

In climates where the rays of the sun do not afford sufficient heat, the water, which has been partly evaporated in large shallow reservoirs formed in the earth, called salt-pans, is poured into enormous coppers and boiled for four or five hours: when the contents of the copper are wasted to half the quantity, the liquid begins to be crystallized; the vessel is again filled up, and the brine again boiled and purified: this is repeated three or four ti the fire is kept very low for twelve or fourteen hours, and when the moisture is nearly evaporated the salt is re brine has drained off, is placed in the store-houses

In what countries is Salt generally found?

This substance, so necessary to the comfort of mankind, is widely distributed over the face of the earth, and nothing, except, perhaps, the air we breathe, is more easily placed within our reach The ocean is an exhaustless store-house of this valuable article Those nations of the earth which are placed at a distance froazines of salt, either in solid masses, or dissolved in the waters of inland lakes, or issuing fros of brine At Salina, Syracuse, and other places in Onondaga Co, New York, salt springs are remarkably abundant, and yield annually several millions of bushels; immense quantities are also obtained from the salt-wells on the Great and Little Kanawha, and other places in Western Virginia; it is also extensively hout the Western States

Name the countries ary, and the mountains of Catalonia, have extensive salt e of Wieliczca, in Poland, about five leagues fro depth and size In the interior of Hindostan, there is a relobe there are spots of ground inated entirely with this substance: an island of the East Indies contains a singular kind of fossil, or native dry salt; the soil there is in general very fruitful, but in certain parts of the island, there are spots of ground entirely barren, without the appearance of anything vegetable upon them; these spots taste very much of salt, and abound with it in such quantities, as to supply not only the whole island, but the greater part of the adjacent continent In Utah Territory, especially in the neighborhood of the Mormon city, at the Great Salt Lake, are found extensive plains thus ireat abundance