290 Mr. Sattspury’s Account of a Storm of Salt. 
tribute to preserve them from the external action of the salt? 
Is there any analogy between the modes in which salt acts 
when applied externally to vegetables, and the more. imper- 
fect animals, such as slugs and worms? Future observations 
and judicious experiments will probably throw great light on this 
matter. ah; eae . 
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