Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1803-12-31

fands ready to latisfy the gaping multi
ride: and in the Chronicle, that cbg'fe
read natured and candid paper, we lind
raffer Drained fort of e0rf'er, iometime'
over and lolnetinles under piGsa fr'ttb. who
declares the.e rflpeffabls traders were no
thing more than a gang OF aOahdersfJ t"'
| 4aoaders, that went 10 the preGdent and
| told him there is in Loaih7na, a eerfaA
mountain Of /alt, of a nloayfroas beigbt, up.
on broadbafs,' for which he gave then
| a peace of the mammoth chcele, and fen
| them back TO hunt for more q0ondlrs--
and here the matter will ref till they re.
turn with another wallet Of wonders
/ Who after this, viii FAY Jeherlon is not a
believer in fairies, gholts and gobiins,
whatever may be his faith in more ferrous
fubje6s !?
t Plain truth, with much /pite and raneoa'
againit thofe who have juitly lampooned
yeferfon for his credulity, proceeds to
juitify his account ofthe JaH mountain, and
lays !; e.To area9onable man the iprings
IN the upper part of PENNY lvania, in the
eConneaicus Referve, IN the Genefee and
sTenneiee countries, and invasious other
sparts Of the wildernefs,f would be good
eevidence Of the fubterrancous native falt,
from whence thefe iprings flow ; and
no creature but goole, that douies her
head every fep llle takes leaf it ihould ha
the clouds, would make uie of an argu-
ment like this to prove the truth of the
prefdent's communication o'congfels ref
pe6ting the lalt mountain or had tie
prefident acted like Reasonable man, and
inifead of giving credit to the tales d
aOanderers for 70Onders, faid, what no man
ever denied, that tits probable, from the
faIt springs mentionedby plain truth, there
is fon,e where in thole countries fubterra-
neous native ialr, from whence they flow,
he would not have made hinfelf the OBJ
iea of ridicule, againit which his hire
hngs are now in vain laboring to defend.
him. 1t is not eafy to determine whether
the credulous weakness of the great pbilqC
opber, or the Wrerched attempt of plain
truth to defend him, is the mott manifef.
Ethan Allen, oneoftheir fraternity, would
have told plain truth that hills prove there
nlaa be vallies and yalEesprove the necel-
fly of hills $ but who, before this )cattsr
braiaed iogiciau, ever could have thought
that becaufe there arc falr iprings in the
Cenei1ee and other places: round about IN
the wilderness, that there mutt be noun
tain of )oEd rock )ah, $50 miles long, and
4s broad, more than thouland miles up
the Miaouri? This may be conclufve
reafoning to repubieans-and 70 is carrion
delicious food to turkty-bazzards.
Hear tlain truth again-sln Camden's
| sfurvey, the native rock falt is mentioned !;
and it is found in divers places in Eng
land, and uIed TO freng then the falt-
sworks in Liverpool Boerhoave Jays, the
squire tranfparant rock falt may be ufed
s~without the procefs of tiltrations' What
has all this to do with the queltion be-
tween the PRECEDENT, who Jays with all the
gravity of the executive magiltrate of a
great republic, that there is @laap of falt
| in LotliGana, 80 miles long and as broad,
and the wits who make fusof him for be-
lievins this incredible tory, merely on the
reports. Of lome q0anderers for z00nasrs ?
Nobody ever dilbekeved the fimple exit
tence of rock ialt, whether they have read
Camden and Boerhoave or not; and this
is all that is proved by thefe quotations:
which we may fet down to the vanity Of
PLAIN truth, who wilhes more TO pats for d
great reader and 1oritsr than he does &c
render any realfesvice to-ths great pbjl9lo-
nber.,
eBut tho there are falt mines, and tho
| from experiment The bse eve can make, the