Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-12-21
observation-disclosures.
REMARKS ON SALT.

go salt works at Hartford, by canal
boat. The coarsest kind is OF the most
perfect whiteness and purify, and weighs
"a pounds to the hushel. 1t is made by
evaporating the salt water in the sun,
in large wooden watts. 1t is almost as
coarse as Turks island salt. The se-
cond quality Is about as coarse as ST.
Ubes salt, but entirely free from all i'm
purity. 1t weighs Sc pounds to the
bushcl, and is made by boiling the brine
in wrough; iron pans. The third quail
~ is little finer than that called Lii
yerpool coarse salt, and bushe weighs
IS pounds. The fourth kind is very
fine and clean table salt, superior TO any
blown salt we ever saw. Ii is not i'm
probable that great quantities of the
Onongago salt will be hereafter brought
up Connecticut river.
The water of the salt springs at Salina
is said to yield four times as much salt
as the water of the ocean. 1t probably
proceeds from some vast body Of rock
salt in the bowels of the earth. Its ex-
peoted that forty acres will be covered
with watts for making salt by solar eva
poration, the next season. The price of
salt at the works varies from IL to 81
l-2 cents per bushel. The duty paid to
the state is IL IL cents the bushel.
Most of the salt imported into the
United States from France, Spain, and
Portugal, IS prepared by evaporatiog
sea-water in the sun. That from Turks
Island, Tortuga, and Cape Verde islands
is made in the sun from the water of
salt lakes or ponds. Salt lakes and
springs are found in places in Europe,
Asa, Africa and America.
That kind of salt called rock. salt is
widely distributed over the globe. la
some countries it is dug up like metals
from the bowels OF the earth some
times it forms solid mountains and in
some places it is spread over the surface
Of the earth. One of the salt mines of
4 W,eltska, near Cracow in Poland, IS
300 feet deep, 600 feet wide, and 1000
feel long. Cracow is completely un-
dermincd, being suspended as it were
on pillows Of salt, which were left to
support the roofs OF those subterranean
chambers. About 700 persons are en-
pIoyed in these mines, and horses and
wagons are used to draw the salt to the
shaft, where it is taken up by engines
Here are several chapels and images of
saints cut out of rock-salt. In Nor
wich, Cheshire county, England, there
are extensive mines of rock salt, which
Sr;old thac -
rock-sa occurs from 100 to $50 feet
2 beneath the surface, and is so hard that
it is difficult to break it with picks and
wedges. Gunpowder is commonly used
to separate it into huge crazy Jumps,
which are drawn up in capacious bas-
kets. The largest rock salt pit contains
an area of about two acres, and the roof
is supported by IS pillars of salt. In
Pennsylvania there is valley whose
bottom and sides are pure rock-salt
The walls of salt on the sides are 300
feet high. In the vicinity of Cordova,
province of Catalonia, Spain, there is a
mountain 500 feet high, and about three
miles in circumference, composed al
most entirely Of rock. salt. Besides the
common uses, it is manufactured into
affairs, saints, crosses, &c. which are as
clear as crystal. There is mountain
Of rock-salt in Tunis, and another in the
s province of Lahore in India. In Abys-
sinia, there is plain Of rock sal. four
days journey across, and several feet
deep. There is similar plain west OF
Cairo. Rock-salt IS abundant in Persia
and Arabia, and the inhabitants some
times use it for building houses. Vast
quantities Of it are found in Peru, Co,
lumbia and in the territory Of the United
States west of the Mississippi.
Some kinds of rock salt are pure, but
most Of it requires to be dissolved in
water and evaporated.
Hamh. Gaz.
Thorn Hedges.-A letter from gen.
tleman who has made tour through q
part Of the states Of Pennsylvania and
Delaware, speaks in the most flauering
terms Of the Thorn Hedges, for their
great utility and durability, as cheap
and permanent fence, forming .
strong and sufficient barrier agains,
oil kinds Of stock commonly raised on
American farms. The writer mentions
that fences Of the above character which
most pleased him were on the farms Of