©g^ ANALYSIS OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN SALT* 



Muriate of magnesia • • • • 205 

 Sulphate of magnesia**** 135 

 Muriate of soda ........ 66a 



1000 



Motherliquor, 7» The mother liquof, or bittern, from Lymington, pre- 

 cr bi'.tern, seated, on analysis, an unaccountable variation from the si- 

 |0n* nailar fluid sent from Scotland, and gave a much larger pro- 



portion of sulphate of magnesia. A considerable quantity 

 of this salt had, moreover, crystallized in the bottle which 

 contained the liquid. Its specific gravity was 1280. Oua 

 thousand parts of the dry salt contained of 



Muriate of magnesia •••• 6*4Q 

 Sulphate of magnesia • • • • 260 

 Muriate of soda ......*• ] 00- 



1000 



frinfcalefiom 8* The pan-Scale from Lymington contained 

 Symington* 



Muriate of magnesia • • • • 29 

 Dessicated sulphate of 



magnesia • 18 



Carbonates of lime and 



magnesia* 127 



Sulphate of lime»« • 216 



Muriate of soda • «• 6l0> 



1000 



No sulphate of From the very near approximation of the proportions 



sodapi€sent. j^ween the sulphate of barytes and ammoniaco-magnesian 



phosphate, obtained in the analysis of all these products of 



seawater, to those which result from the decomposition of two 



equal quantities of sulphate of magnesia, it may be inferred, 



* The proportion of these carbonates I was. prevented from deter-* 

 mining by an accident. 



that 



