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removed, a small quantity of water, containing in solution va^ 

 rious salts of lime, magnesia, &c., remains in the beds; this is 

 not thrown out, but water is simply again introduced from the 

 reservoir by means of the channel D,, and thus the process is 

 repeated till about the beginning or middle of September. 

 After two crops have been obtained from a bed it is, however,, 

 allowed to dry and is well beaten as at first. The average size 

 of a Kahtohupattie may be 40 or 50 feet square* that of a small 

 bed 15 to 20 feet in length by 8 to 12 in breadth, but no par-, 

 ticular attention is paid to these proportions. Not more than 

 three cr four crops are procured in a season, and at each, the 

 produce of a small pan will under favourable circumstances, 

 be about eight or ten bushels, but does not on the whole aver- 

 age one half of this. The salt remains in the cadjan huts 

 under a guard paid by Government, but at the risk of the 

 manufacturers, until it can be received over. When this time 

 arrives it is removed to the large stores I.I., placed at con- 

 venient intervals, weighed, and deposited. These stores are in 

 some instances formed of cadjans, sometimes of masonry, and 

 sometimes altogether of timber, and of these latter some were 

 placed over pits four or five feet in depth, while others were 

 raised on dwarf pillars to prevent injuries from water. The 

 cadjan stores require constant repair, and are seldom quite 

 water tight, the mortar of the masonry ones soon becomes dis- 

 integrated by the action of the salt, the timber stores over pits 

 were found inconvenient and damp, those on pillars, unneces^ 

 sarily expensive, it being observed that white-ants do not 

 attack timber saturated with salt; plain wooden structures 

 placed on somewhat elevated sites appear therefore the most 

 suitable, and will probably be universally adopted. 



With regard to the various expenses incurred in this 

 manufacture, the following remarks may be made. The pro^ 



