86 GA. Goessmann on the Chemistry of Common Salt. 
cuacien of calcium and magnesium, and sulphate of lime; 
e second class contain no chlorid of calcium, but 
cae ehlarid of magnesium, with the sulphates of lime, soda 
be 8 magnesia ; the first class are su to originate chiefly 
from fe. saline residue of the oceanic waters of ante-terti 
date, while the second class represent most probably — 
tives of the former. All the brines found east of the 
sippi river belong, so far as my own information mee! t the 
t class, as they contain chlorid of calcium. The second 
class of brines is largely represented west of that river ; in 
instance in Nebraska, Kansas, an kansas. 
L Ast Class of brines and salt.* 
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Sulphate of lime, 0°5433 05747 0°0755 0°4887 0°0881 01060 traces 0°2978 
Chlorid of calcium, 0°0216 0°1533 hem 0°4020 1°1360 0°6140 0-7009 1°1793 
Chi’d of magnes’m, 0-0336 0-1440 1-2616 0°3710 04744 0°0409 0°7312 0-957 
“ of sodi 24°1433 15-5817 19 nas 12°5315 92°38 95-7 67684 9°8952 : 
Water, 748 83: 34 91: 8%: 
IL. 2d Class of brines and salt; it includes all kinds of salt 
made from oceanic waters.* 
Nebraska (brine), Nebraska (salt). Kansas (salt). 
0-1 02475 11222 
Sulphate of lime, 256 
Sulphate of soda, 0°5808 0-3912 0°3511 
1% “magnesia, ay eae 01794 
Chlorid of magnesium, 071542 0-0790 0°2400 
Wen of sodium, etc., 0°3156 98°12 93-06 
Waiter, 90- 0°8 4°8 
“The value of a brine for eames ae 2 es does 
calcium and ‘magnesium. 
Saline caine are scattered all over the United States, their 
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brines of New York, (Onondaga co.), southeastern Ohio, western 
Virginia, Michigan, Pen nsylvania, and of late Nebraska and 
Kansas. The brines of New York, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, 
Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Canada West, resem echoed 
* These analytical statements méans express d the 
relative purity of te at sy mela eos posse 
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