Bringier on the Region of the — ee 
with a “greyish ‘baa cast. They ha a sparry texture ; 
they seem to be an aggregate of diliecous argillaceous and 
magnesian earths, with a @ litle oxid of iron. 
| Sal, Sona Hilts, wt sth 
finite 28 Tmean he cox 
(the hone quarry is aire the cove) there is a salt work ; 
it makes a great quantity of salt, which is sold at one 
dollar per bushel. They could make any quantity, the wa- 
ter is so far saturated that it yields one fifteenth of salt; but 
there are salt springs on the Arkansas that yield one sixth 
of salt ; and higher still there are streams of a sufficient size 
for a boat to navigate in, coming out of a lake called lake 
—— which is a saturated solution of salt. This water 
of a bright red, takin ee ee 
siten’ mines, which are very plenty on 
Large blocks of rock salt of the same Cicak ee 
crevices of the mountains eastward of these telcos: Th 
are three in arange; their beds are a solid mass of inariatb 
of — and pera them are immense Ag where the 
cording as the wind directs them, sometimes eight ‘or ten 
aos 6 or more at a time. They are impassable 7 one would 
| ashes. 
The de * “a ‘ Shi a 
of their bakes, which nepal evacnate ina oe i 
