POPULAR MISCELLANY. 





places and ris^ f rocks of 



siderable magnitude. The salt-bearing rocks 

 are of a reddish color, receiving their f 

 from red ochre, which, associated to a small 

 extent with specular iron, em -e salt 



deposit and is more or less mixed with 

 imparting to it also a red tint. Hie asso- 

 ciation of ochre with salt i3 so constant in 

 the district that the existence of the former 

 is almost a sure indication of the presence 

 of the latter. Hear the villi age of Kowin 

 on the Island of R^hm, the salt and ochre 

 are so mingled in a part of the range as to 

 give it the appearance of a structure made 

 of red bricks and mortar. Years ago, the 

 salt was gathered from hollows in the ground 

 where briny water issuing from the rocks 

 could be collected and the mineral would be 

 left after evaporation in beautiful crystal- 

 line Tna ffMfjg. More recently, the salt has 

 been quarried ; and the works condor: 

 this purpose have become large caverns in 



icb stalactites have been formed from the 

 tri _ :f the brine, yielding snow-white 



isms of saecharoid salt. Besides these 

 m*asg ( the salt is found here in pure white 

 lumps, easily reduced to granules, the most 

 valuable form, red, stony masses which are 

 used chiefly for salting fish, and translucent 

 and tran- masnr.- > of cubical forms, 



and is dug out with crow-bar At Hameran, 

 four mile3 f roir. a-shore, the salt is 



a about four feet thick with in- 

 ter- of earthy material, anc 

 sometimes of a pale-greenish color from eon- 

 tact with an earth containing mangan 

 The mass - are broken with 

 gunpowder and granulated with mallets. 

 Warn ^alt are found 

 close by the village of Salakh, near Hen-jam, 



naphtha which the na- 

 tiv f light and for rheu- 



matic com;/ arts 



The Great Arftif Forest. 

 X : : lenskmld, in his "V of the '' - 



describes what he c greatest :': 



the earth ha- show. I: exists in the 



country of the Yenisei River, and extends 

 from the fifty- h or fifty-ninth degree 



of latitude to far north of the A Tir- 



. in the neighborhood of ti j-mm\h 



degree of la: covering an extent of 



about one tb^usand kilometres from north 



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from east to west. "It 

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 at many places devastate:: 

 On the high eastern bank of 

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bank. It eonninta principally of pines. . . . 



Most of these already north of the Arctic 

 Circle [the traveler is soppuacd to be 

 from north to sooth] reach a c o los si] 

 but in such a ease are often here, far froc 

 all forestry, gray and half -dried up with age. 

 The ground is covered with fallen bra nrhc 

 and stems in all stages of rottenness, whid 

 are covered, often concealed, by an exceed 

 ingly luxuriant bed of mormen, while tree 



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 -een here and there amon g the pine 



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show that the limit of trees in the Y 





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in SicDy. fen er:;- 



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re 



S::-j. One is 

 of the island, about eight miles no: 

 gentL It proceeds from o mountain shoot 

 hundred feet high, called Wonlorn, 



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iL:.~ri inter. ;': - tie - - :: 

 hohihlr of mod rises and bursts every 

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 on the western side of the lower region of 

 Etna, nearly forty miles weal of Macaluba, 



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:- the iev T i : the r:::h :. I: if ni-fii-:- 

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 The mud sports out in jets several yards 



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 runs into the bed of the B itiet. The 



e i optio n has been ren eo e d three times with- 



deep subterranean rumblings and i liwg 



f the earth, some of which are 



eptiMe several miles ow The 



that issues from these volcanoes 



