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ra’ _ Salt Sirtngs of Moutiers. 
person to imitate it in this country ; indeed, so little ; 
mode of evaporation by faggots, that it has been often s _ by Eng- 
lish writers, and has recently been again gravely repeated, that it 
consisted in throwing salt water upon burning faggots, and gathering 
cor that remained. This would be a mode of making salt, as 
“wise and practicable, as the nursery method of catching Hes by pus 
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gt on their tails. 
Is obvious. that water so weakly impregnated with atin to con- 
n only one pound and a half in every thirteen gallons, could not 
= expence of evaporating by fuel, in any country. ‘The wa- 
 & the north sea contains 24 per cent. of salt, and yet it has 
t'been attempted, that I know of, to make-salt from it by evap- 
oration with coal fires, even on the coast of Northumberland or Dur- 
ham, where refuse coal, suited to the purpose, might be purchased 
r ts. 6d. per ton. In order to make salt from the saline water at 
Moutiers, it was necessary to concentrate it by natural evaporation ; 
aud to effect this speedily, it was required to spread the surface of 
the fluid: over as Jarge a space as possible, the ratio of evaporation 
being; ceteris paribus, in proportion to the extent of the surface ex-— 
posed to the action of the atmosphere. The first attempt at Mou- - 
se was made i in 1550, by arranging cbrsgee of _ states in one, 
ted toa certain peace: It was then siaesiastl to the boiler, and fur- 
ther evaporated by fuel. -In 1730 the present buildings were erect- 
ed by order of Charles Emanuel the third. 
re are four évaporating houses, called Maisons d’Epines (lit- 
erally, houses of thorns). Nos. 1. and 2. receive the water from 
the reservoir, and concentrate it to about three degrees of strength, 
viz, they Spats one half of the water they receive. These 
on each side, and moni aere by Las across; the whole j is support- 
stone buttresses, about three feet from the ground, under which 
= io troughs for the salt water to fall into. The frame is filled 
fouble rows of faggots of black thorn, ranged from one end to 
yet to the Pa they are sate loosely, so as to admit the 
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