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aban: river : Doron: When once in motion, the 
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( goes on 
and requires little farther attention, or manual labor, till it is comple- 
ted. When the water is nearly saturated, it passes to a large build- 
ing, where are the pans for boiling, and the salt is crystallized in the 
usualmethod. ‘That the reader may form an idea of the quantity 
of water evaporated before it comes to the pans, I will state ae re- 
duction at each of the evaporating houses: 
8000 hogsheads, when received at Nos. 1. and 2., conta 
about. 414 per. cent.of salt - - - + - aa to 4000 
~ 4000 hogsheads, when received at No. 3., contain about 
3 per cent. of salt - - - - reduced to 1000 
; 1000 hogsheads, when baaeival at No. bio contain ay 
12 per cent. of salt - - te gia 550 
sia hogsheads, received at diet pans, contain near 22. per cent. 
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t. 
: Thus, out of every eight thousand hogsheads, passin hiceih the. 
_— a aiees, seven thousand four hundred and fifty are evapo- 
. air in summer, and about seven thousand in winter; 
oo nth one-sixteenth part of the fuel is consumed, that would ee 
required for evaporating the whole quantity of water by fire. — 
The faggots are changed. at periods of from four to seven years. 
e in Nos. 1. and 2. where the saline impregnation is weak, wil 
decay sooner than in Nos. 3. and 4. In No. 3. all the twigs acq oe 
80 thick a coating of selenite, that when broken off they resemble _ 
stems and: branches of encrinites. eee: 
The Maison de Cordes was invented by an ingenious Savoyard, . 
tamed Buttel. It is forty yards in length and eleven wide; it is 
much stronger than the Maison d’Epines, the roof being supported 
by six arches of stone work 3 the intermediate spaces on the sides 
being leftopen. In every one of these divisions are twelve hundred 
cords; in rows of twenty-four each, suspended from the roof, and 
fixed, tight at bottom. The cords are about sixteen feet in length. 
water is raised to a reservoir at the top of the building, and dis- 
tributed into a number of small transverse canals, each row of twen- 
— ly-four cords having one of these canals over it, which is so pierced 
a8 to admit the water to trickle down each separate cord, drop by 
Pp» The original intention of this building was to crystallize the 
st itself upon the cords, for which purpose the water was made use 
‘from the pans after-it had deposited a quantity of salt in the first 
» to serve the expense of fuel in a second boiling ; the resi- 
