SI OLOOIST. L91 



, which 000 lbs. per ton, amounts to 



59 .1 ! .; bushels. The total exports and their value for three 

 fol lows : 



: 680,154 tons, valued al 6268 B51 



745,513 " " 242 



1857, 651,766 M " 289,960 



ducing districts in England are Cheshire 

 and W rsnire. It is mostly manufactured from rock salt, 



At Korthwich, in the former county, the bed of salt is not less 

 than 60 fi i I thick, a mile long, and 1,300 yards broad. 



[y manufactured from sea-water on the six res 

 of the Mediterranean, in the south ; . and on the western 

 At the saline of Bene the evaporating surfaces cover 

 an arei 5 English acres, and t be annual manufacture is 



20,000,000 kilograms each), or 737,500 bushels. 



The saline of Baynas yields annually 20,000 tons (757,500 



of soda (Glauber's salt), worth 

 30 francs the ton, and '200 tons of chlorid potassium, worth 360 



1 manufacture of salt, in France, in 1847. was as 



foil- ' 



Ton?. 



Salt marshes of i! • 203.000 



231,000 



d a mine, 70,000 



570,000 

 1,000 kilogrammes to the ton, is 

 equal to . occupation to 1 1 



. 



•rated by the Biscayans, on the 



Spain and Portugal. The salines of the lagOi OS of 



\ vcv an area of al 



mine- Europe ha\ • 1 



ad Bochnia* in <J well known 



r t 



