﻿120 
  

  

  bushels 
  annually. 
  The 
  quality 
  of 
  the 
  salt, 
  has, 
  also, 
  I 
  have 
  reason 
  to 
  

   believe, 
  been 
  generally 
  improved. 
  Complaints, 
  however, 
  are 
  yet 
  some- 
  

   times 
  made 
  on 
  this 
  score, 
  and 
  the 
  prejudice 
  which 
  was 
  formerly 
  enter- 
  

   tained 
  against 
  the 
  " 
  Onondaga 
  salt," 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  entirely 
  removed. 
  

  

  More 
  than 
  twenty 
  years 
  since, 
  my 
  attention 
  was 
  directed 
  to 
  the 
  

   salines 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  county, 
  when 
  I 
  made 
  an 
  analysis 
  of 
  the 
  water, 
  and 
  

   carefully 
  examined 
  the 
  various 
  modes 
  of 
  manufacturing 
  salt 
  which 
  

   were 
  adopted. 
  I 
  have 
  at 
  various 
  times 
  subsequently 
  visited 
  these 
  

   salines, 
  and 
  have 
  devoted 
  much 
  time 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  facts 
  which 
  

   I 
  supposed 
  would 
  have 
  an 
  influence 
  in 
  improving 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  

   salt 
  and 
  of 
  increasing 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  springs. 
  All 
  the 
  information 
  

   which 
  I 
  collected 
  up 
  to 
  1842, 
  was 
  embodied 
  in 
  my 
  work. 
  The 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  additional 
  facts 
  are 
  conceived 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  sufficient 
  interest 
  to 
  be 
  here 
  

   introduced. 
  

  

  In 
  June, 
  1844, 
  I 
  analyzed 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  salt, 
  the 
  one 
  from 
  the 
  

   " 
  Hope 
  Factory," 
  in 
  Onondaga 
  county, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  the 
  " 
  Liverpool, 
  

   or 
  Ashton." 
  The 
  composition 
  in 
  1,000 
  grains 
  was 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Liverpool, 
  or 
  Ashton 
  : 
  

  

  Insoluble 
  matters, 
  0*25 
  

  

  Sulphate 
  of 
  lime, 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  11-65 
  

  

  Sulphate 
  of 
  magnesia, 
  ..... 
  1-56 
  

  

  Chloride 
  of 
  magnesium, 
  ..... 
  trace. 
  

  

  Chloride 
  of 
  sodium, 
  (pure 
  salt) 
  ... 
  986-54 
  

  

  1,00000 
  

   Hope 
  Factory 
  : 
  

  

  Insoluble 
  matters, 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  0*15 
  

  

  Sulphate 
  of 
  lime, 
  11-06 
  

  

  Chloride, 
  of 
  calcium, 
  0-38 
  

  

  Chloride 
  of 
  sodium, 
  (pure 
  salt) 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  988*41 
  

  

  1,000-00 
  

  

  These 
  results, 
  together 
  with 
  those 
  previously 
  given, 
  sufficiently 
  show 
  

   the 
  superior 
  purity 
  of 
  the 
  samples 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  salt. 
  Their 
  correct- 
  

   ness 
  is 
  generally 
  confirmed 
  by 
  the 
  analyses 
  executed 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Emmons, 
  

   and 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  results 
  are 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  New- 
  

   York 
  State 
  Agricultural 
  Society, 
  for 
  1847, 
  p. 
  281. 
  The 
  complaints 
  

   which 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  this 
  salt, 
  can 
  only 
  have 
  arisen 
  from 
  

  

  