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2 water, 



1 oxide of iron. 



After the process of calcination, it is to be 

 ground, and then mixed with an equal weight of 

 clean sand, which will be twice as bulky as thi^ 

 lime, and it must be mixed with clean water, and 

 as little as possible. 



I am told that a great limestone ridge runs 

 through the whole of this country, east and west — 

 that north of it a ledge of gypsum commences; 

 also a range of salines — and that on the borders 

 of the gypsum and salt regions, there is a tier of 

 lime stone alternating with sand stouc, and full 

 of organic remains ; adjacent to which the water 

 lime is found — and that this valuable fossil is in 

 great abundance over a line of country of at least 

 100 miles extent. The most eastern salt spring 

 as yet discovered is about 25 miles west ofUtica ; 

 at the same distance gypsum commences. This 

 afiinity between salt and gypsum exists all over 

 the world. I llnd the geology of tliis country 

 most extroiordinary ; it is sui generis. In using 

 the technology of Werner, I beg you to under- 

 stand that i am no disciple of his scliool. I adopt 

 it to explain my ideas in conformity to received 

 and general nomenclature. We arc yet m the* 

 horn book of this science. The lapse of ages will 

 accnniulate facts for the formation of systems. — 



