242, On the Origin of Salt Springs. =< 
of the alluvial of New-Jersey, from which good iron for 
castings may be extracted. It is generally mixed. with 
mountain ore in the furnace. The phosphate of iron is not 
ay and the Delaware. The inhabitants of the New-Jer- 
sey sea-board generally subsist by a little farming, wood-cut- 
ting, fishing, and grazing of cattle on the salt-meadows. 
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Aur “il.—On. the probable Origin f certain Salt Springs. 
— . By Professor Amos Earon. ~ 
To the Editor. ~ - 
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y act which tends to disclose that hidden operation 
ure by which the Salt Springs of the west are produc- 
ery, made in my first excursion on the canal route, in the 
the Patroon of Albany, (the Hon. S. Van Rensselaer,) I take 
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