8 On the Salt Springs at Salina, Syracuse, &c. 
In the course of the last eight years, a manufacturer ‘at 
Salina, under a law of the state for the encouragement o 
the undertaking, has made several eae attempts, by 
boring in different places, to discover rock salt: and, within 
eighteen months, the same operation has 8 performed, 
with partial success, to obtain brine of increased strength 
and quantity. At one place, in Syracuse, the boring was two 
hundred and fifty feet, eighty feet lower than the deepest 
places in Onondaga lake, and principally through indurated 
‘clay, but the adventurers, meeting with very hard rock, sup- 
posed to be granite, the work was discontinued without the 
discovery of any vein of salt or even fresh water. a another 
place, salt water o . com- 
mencement, but at the depth of et the 
, Owing to the difficulty of ring dawn the tube, 
of sheet iron, through a bed of rounded smooth stones, which 
were of every size from common coarse gravel to that of a 
man’s head, and of a variety of colors and texture. 
About a mile from the south end of the lake, and on the 
border of Onondaga creek, (the small river before mention- 
ed,) among stones resembling those just described, a well 
had been sunk thirty feet, and the work suspended three 
years; but last summer a tube was driven down, in the cen- 
tre of the well, fifty feet further, into a stratum, the thickness 
of which is undetermined, of clean washed gravel: ten feet 
from the surface of the ground the saltness of the water was 
first perceptible, increasing with the descent of the well, and 
afterwards of the tube, till the boring ceased at the depth of 
eighty feet, aie it was found to contain twenty-two ounces 
As om nd cn crs = re gallon. When the water of the 
well is lowered eight feet by pumping, the quantity discharg- 
ed from t e tube, which has the upper part cut Mf at that 
th, ts. one hundred gallons per minute, and, when the 
pum ee: = ‘sen to the surface of the —o and 
cee in a small stream 
A 
boring was 
eae Green Point, places on te 
shores oor the lake, there has been boring to considerable 
depths, not over eighty feet, and other veins have been open- 
of salt water which is Semively used at the former place 
and Liverpool. 
Three large metallic pumps, moved by the surplus water 
of the Ene canal, and one, worked by a small steam engine, — 
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