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Geological Reports on the State of New York. 



The brine at the Montezuma springs is much weaker than at 

 Onondaga, yielding only ninety three parts of salt in one thousand, 

 instead of one hundred and thirty six, and seventy gallons of the 

 water are necessary to afford a bushel of salt. 



Table, showing the composition of various Binnes, from Onon- 

 daga and Cayuga counties, N. Y. 



hiflammahle Gas. — Carhuretted Hydrogen. 



Disengaged in many places — at Albany, from a boring in the 

 slate, where a saline carbonated water is discharged — at the Oneida 

 springs in Yernon — in the Ontario gas springs, on both sides of 

 the Canandaigua lake — in Bristol, nine miles from the village, and 

 within three miles of it — in the Niagara gas springs near Lockport, 

 and so abundantly in a particular place, that it has been called 

 Gasport. 



Most remarkable in Fredonia, Chautauque county, three miles 

 south of Lake Erie, from the bituminous slate under Ganadanea 

 Greek. Babbles of gas every where rise through the water, and 

 most abundantly at and below the bridge. The gas burns with 

 a white flame,l;inged with yellow above and with blue below the 

 burner. 



" The illuminating power of this gas and its abundant supply, suggested 

 the idea of its employment in lighting the village. A copious discharge 

 of the gas was observed issuing from a fissure in the rock which forms 

 the bed of the creek, which it was thought could be diverted to a boring 

 on the bank. A shaft was accordingly sunk through the slate about 

 twenty two feet in depth, which occasionally passed through layers of the 



