C. A. Goessmann on the Onondaga Mineral Springs. 211 
the accumulation of the sediments), and, therefore, just where 
such disturbances or yieldings = most like ely to continue to 
occur through after time. LHarthquakes show that even now, 
in this last of the a ata ages, the same border regions of 
the continents, although daily t thickening from the sediments 
borne to the ocean by rivers, are the areas of the greatest and 
most frequent movements of the earth’s crust, 
Art. XXXI.— Contribution to the Gee % se Mineral Springs 
of Onondaga, New York; by CHARLES A. GOESSMANN, Ph.D., 
Chemist to the Salt Company of Shen sp 
Some of the ata i a of the Brines of Onondaga, N. Y., 
have already been illustra pibl ae series of analyses in two pre- 
Onon nti Lake, north and west of tha’ city of Syracuse. This 
entire district consists mainly of low lands, which are yet partly 
in a marshy state. They have been reclaimed in the course of 
time from the original lake bed, by natural and artificial drain- 
age, and extend from one to one and half miles south of the lake. 
They are everywhere bounded by more or less abruptly rising : 
grounds. These embankments, toward the east and west, at the aa 
southern end of the lake basin a fe het in several places, in 
fees ied A. Goessmann. pa ee ee De- 
ember 6, 1862. 
on the Manufactory of Solar Salt, &c., by the same. se amogengs 
cember, 1863, 
