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Localities. Feom whom obtaiheb, 



104 Bock with veins of salt from shaft of 



a rock salt mine, Cheshire (Eng.)- J. B. Lobb, esq. 



105 Crystals of selenite from solar salt-fields, 



Onondaga salines. L. Conkej'', esq. 



106 Crystals of selenite from Nolton & Co.'s 



settling cisterns, Onondaga salines. ....... do 



107 Artificial oolite from Howd's salt-works, Syracuse. S. B. Howel, esq. 



108 Salt water from a well sunk at Montezuma in 1842, 605 feet. 



E. Meriam. 



109 Salt water fi-om a well sunk at Lockpit, Wayne 



county, fire miles east of Clyde do 



116 Salt water from a well sunk in 1846 near Little 



Sodus Bay (N.Y.) do 



111 Salt water taken in 1844 from a spring in the 



wilderness in Percy township, near the 

 Biver Trent, Upper Canada, about thirty 

 miles east of Lake Ontario do 



112 Salt from the Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, 



obtained by Capt. Stansbury iu 1849 do 



113 Water from the Dead Sea, by Fisher Howe of 



Brooklyn, January 19, 1850 do 



114 Salt water from the well of Findlay, Mitchell & 



Co., Saltville, Washington county (Va.), 



January 31, 1844 do , 



The specimens of salt from 1-11 inclusive were made from 

 Onondaga brines, and are average ones of that salt. Being made by 

 diiferent processes of manufacture, they vary considerably in the 

 size and form of their crystals, or grains, and in their specific 

 gravities ; but in chemical composition they are very much alike. 



ANALYSES. 



Chloride 



of 

 sodium. 

 (Sail.) 



Sulphate 

 of 



lime. 

 Pliisler; 



Chlorii'e 



of 

 calciup. 

 ( Bmem.> 



C oride 



of maq-- 



nesium. 



( Billeni.) 



Watek. 



Solar salt 1851 ... 



Solar salt 1853 ... 



Boiled salt (front kettle) . . 1852 > . , 

 Boiled salt ( do ).. 1853 ... 

 Boiled salt (middle kettle), ]852 ... 

 Boiled salt ( do ).. 1853 ... 

 Boiled salt (back kettle) . . 1852 .. , 

 Boiled salt ( do ).. 1853 ... 

 Salt made by S. B. Howd's process . . . 

 Salt made in an iron pan by Haskins 

 Salt condeniTiPd by the inspectors . . . . 



18.11 



1.43 

 0.67 

 1.81 

 1.46 

 1.41 

 1.26 

 1.13 

 1,51 

 0.04 

 0.17 

 0.67 



0.05 

 0.06 

 0.17 

 0.09 

 0.15 

 0.15 

 0.18 

 0.21 

 0.04 

 0-19 

 0.02 



0.03 

 0.07 

 0.09 

 0.(.7 

 O.Oo 

 0.18 

 0.0' 

 0.27 

 0.03 

 0.16 

 0.1(1 



1.79 

 1.29 

 1.74 

 1.10 

 1.54 

 1.00 

 1.80 

 1.60 

 1.94 

 1.60 

 1.10 



