On the Salt Springs at Salina, Syracuse, ge. 7 
this region, from the aborigines, to whom, we ee presume, 
e discove- 
eastern termination, along the shore of which he passed a 
short distance to the right, and, ascending a rivu now 
al dis- 
on the shores of the lake, and many wells have been sunk to 
procure brine for the manufactories at the villages of Liver- 
pool, Salina, Syracuse, and Geddesburgh. The i 
not exceed eighteen feet in depth, and in the strength of 
wells, had subsided six or eight feet. 
ntil the close of the summer of 1822, the salt water had 
been pumped principally by men, who were then superseded 
