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XI. An Account of a Storm of Salt, which fell in January, 1808. 
By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. F.R.S. and L.S. 
| Read February 5, 1805. 
Peruaps there never was any period, gentlemen, in which the 
science of natural history, in all its various branches, received 
such ample additions, and solid improvements, as during the 
few years that you have associated for the purpose of promoting 
it. How rare and valuable your several communications have 
been, appears from the very high character your Transactions 
. now universally hold, and which allows me to indulge the pleas- 
ing fancy, that the genius of that immortal master whose name 
we are distinguished by, will still hover round us. Professor 
Swartz, in his Prodromus, has taken a very appropriate motto from 
the sacred writings, and flatters this country so far as to use the 
English translation. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge 
shall abound, is the passage he quotes; but the extraordinary 
fact which I have now to relate to you, pera that ee is 
yet to be learnt at home. 3 
. On the 14th of January, 1803, I observed an east window of 
my house, which had been cleaned a few days before, covered 
on the outside with an apparent hoar frost. When the servant 
. who was sent to remove it, came and told me it was salt, I was . 
astonished, and still more so, upon going out, to find this sub- 
stance almost as abundantly deposited in the garden and neigh- 
bouring fields. I was totally at a loss to account for so curious 
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