416 COFFEE. 



would be of little value, for salt, being a heavy article of low 

 value, will not bear high rates of transportation. Cheap coal 

 and labor are also necessary to make salt cheaply, and in this, as 

 well as in the quality of the brine, the Cheshire salt district is 

 specially favored. Liverpool, doubtless, owes much of its pros- 

 perity to the salt of Cheshire, which furnishes return cargoes to a 

 large portion of the ships bringing cargoes to Liverpool ; indeed, 

 I am told that salt is sometimes taken as ballast for nothing. 

 The principal markets for English salt are the United States and 

 India, but it goes, in greater or less quantities, aU over the world. 



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