362 T. S. Hunt on Salts from Sea-water. 
marshes of Brittany and La Vendée are wrought to a consider- 
able extent, but the cool, moist and rainy climate of these re- , 
gions is much less favorable to this industry than that of the 4 
southern shores of the empire, where dry and hot summers offer 4 
eat facilities for the evaporation of the sea-water, which is 
effected in all the salines of which we have spoken, by the sun 
and wind, without artificial heat. 
Tranean, t quired ae 
somewhat different. In both cases, however, the high oer es 
taken advantage of to fill large and shallow basins with the oe ‘ 
; i Sis sediments, becomes warmed by ; 
the sun’s rays and begins to evaporate. From these reservolrs 
it is led by a canal to a series of basins from ten to sixteen inches 
ere by the 
rated, an 
pe coe its lime in the form of sulphate. It then_ passes 10 28 
other series of smaller basins, where the evaporation 18 eee 
smaller shallow Senne called salting tables, where the ae 
be deposited. In the salines of the Atlantic coast, the eee 
asins are neatly on the same plane, and the water flows a 
