MISCELLANEOUS. 



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white salt sent down the Weever 

 from Winsford and Northwich, 

 for the last ten years, has been 

 139,317 tons ; this has been prin- 

 cipally for the supply of the fish- 

 eries in Scotland, Ireland, theports 

 of the Baltic, the United States of 

 America, Newfoundland, and the 

 British Colonies. The quantity 

 manufacturedatNorthwich is sup- 

 posed to have been doubled within 

 the last ten years. Messrs. I^Iar- 

 shall and Naylor, proprietors of 

 some brine-pits, at Anderton, hav- 

 ing turned their attention to the 

 investigation of means by which 

 salt-works might be constructed at 

 the least expense, and the con- 

 sumption of fuel diminished, have 

 erected works upon this principle, 

 at which theymake a large-grained 

 salt, peculiarly well adapted to the 

 purpose of curing fish and pro- 

 visions. — The proprietors, in the 

 year 1806, obtained a patent for 

 making this salt, for which there 

 have been already very large de- 

 mands ; large quantities having 

 been exported to Scotland, Ire- 

 land, Newfoundland, and Sweden. 

 The discovery of the rock salt in 

 1670, forms an important a;ra in 

 the history of the staple com- 

 modity of the county. There are 

 now ten or twelve pits of rock- 

 salt worked in the neighbourhood 

 of Northwich, in the townships of 

 Witton, Marston, and Winchara ; 

 from some of these pits they raise 

 a hundred tons in a day. The 

 rock salt is sent down the Weever 

 from Northwich ; about a third of 

 it is refined at the salt-works at 



Frodsham, and on the Lancashire 

 side of the Mersey ; but the greater 

 part is carried to Liverpool, whence 

 it is exported to Ireland, and the 

 ports of the Baltic. — The average 

 quantity sent down the Weever 

 from Northwich for the last ten 

 years is 51,109 tons.* In 1805, 

 there were 2,950 hands employed 

 in the manufacture of salt. 



An Account of the Vahabies. 



[From Travels of Mirza AbuTaleb Khan.] 



The founder of this sect was 

 named Abdal Vehab (the servant 

 of" the bestower of all benefits). 

 He was born in the neighbour- 

 hood of Hilla, on the banks of the 

 Euphrates, but brought up as an 

 adopted son, by a person of some 

 consequence, named Ibrahim, in 

 the district of Nejid. During his 

 youth he was considered as supe- 

 rior to all his contemporaries, for 

 his ready wit, penetration, and re- 

 tentive memory. He was also of 

 a very liberal disposition ; and 

 whenever he received any money 

 from his patron, he distributed it 

 immediately amongst his inferiors. 

 After having acquired the com- 

 mon principles of education, and a 

 little knowledge of the law, he tra- 

 velled to Ispahan, late the capital 

 of Persia, where he studied for 

 some time under the most cele- 

 brated masters of that city. He 

 then travelled to Khorassan, and 

 thence to Ghizni; whence he pro- 

 ceeded to Irac : and, after so- 



• Holland's Agricultural Survey of Cheshire, where maybe found a full ac- 

 count of the process of raising the brine and making the salt, with many other 

 particulars relating to the salt manufactured from the brine-pits, as well as that 

 procured from the salt mines. 



