6 On the Salt Springs at Salina, Syracuse, $c. 
discovered, they are at present of moderate extent. They 
will no doubt be extended and enlarged in a short time. 
Considerable quantities of salt are obtained in North Car- 
olina from a neck of the sea, by digging pits near the shore, 
which are filled by the tide; it is then carried by trenches to 
a distance, where it is evaporated by the sun; and being situ- 
ated near extensive fisheries, is employed to great advantage 
and profit in putting up fish for exportation 
Nearly all the salt furnished in the United States is ob- 
tained by boring, and the brine is bie by heat; the 
mother water, or bittern, as it is termed, is thrown away. 
It is a strong solution of muriate of rei and magnesia. As 
this article is produced in in considerable q 
salt and magnesia m might be advantageou y manafeetared 
from it. It is ee — ows bittern has wn He very delete- 
rious to animals ; ; horses, s, &c. have been killed by tak- 
ing small ions wi it, which frequently happens, as it forms 
on evaporation, incrustations which are mistaken for salt 
Arr. I1.—WNotice of the Salt Sprmgs and Manu Saba of 
Salt at Salina, Syracuse, §-c. N. Y. made at the request of 
the Editor ; by Sraruen Suitu, Superintendent at Salina. 
In the town of Salina, and state of New-York, nearly equi- 
distant from Albany on the river Hudson, and Buffalo at the 
north-eastern extremity of Lake ies are situated hia orks, 
the most extensive in the United States, for the saaulantas 
of salt from. seared brine. The Sat a of that substance 
song the margin of Onondaga lake, were similar, as is be- 
= “he bowing & ard is adopted for Sieratiing salt from sea water by. 
pontaneous evapo m in hot climates: Several parcels of flat x oma 
— ny es seein tie IESE hich ire well ngs mith ly, 
ents, the last of whic are wel 
and erly beaten in | an even horizontal surface : 
is allowed to has partly 
r to run i 
ones, the heat of the sum, fia few hours, ev i ndanntade to e the 
salt, which alls ty the bottom, andi drawn out we with Pena at 
ve’ soon ev 
Baur to have been practised wi t eee 
also now used in various other parts - Seppe : Vol. 
