UNITED STATES 



water from which the salt is made by boiling, is 

 chiefly procured by digging wells in such places* 

 Nature maybe said to have been peculiarly bounteous 

 in this respect, to the interior countries of this fa- 

 voured continent, in every part which is remote from 

 the sea. They abound in many places near the 

 lakes of Canada ; in many places upon the waters of 

 the Ohio river ; throughout the country upon the 

 extensive sources of the Great Sandy river ; many 

 yivers of Kentucky, and the Illinois, North-western 

 Territory, and state of Tennessee, and in the Hoi* 

 stein settlements ; besi4es various waters at a great 

 distance, which form a confluence with remote parts 

 of the Mississippi, 



The working of these salt springs has hitherto 

 been of very happy tendency, by accommodating the 

 western settlements at about one-tenth of the price 

 which has often been paid for this ponderous article, 

 while it was brought several hundred miles from the 

 seaports to the frontier counties. 



The salt springs in the vicinity of the Onondago 

 lake,* state of New York, deserve particular notice. 

 They do not stream in a horizontal direction from 

 under its banks, butspiingup, generally in marshes, 

 at some distance from the hard land, and the vein 

 Qf water, when searched for, is found to be directly 

 ^downwards. By accurate experiments, the strongest 

 springs were found to contain from 1-2 to 1-4 nearly 

 of a pound of salt to the gallon of water. The ma- 

 iiufactory of the salt is extensively carried on, and 



• See Dewitt^s full account of this lake. 



