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pense, but these have been long since removed, and the manufacture of 
salt entirely abandoned. The reason of this will be apparent, when it 
is stated that the brine contains scarcely 9 per cent of solid matter, as 
appears from an analysis of it made some years since, by Mr. G. Chil- 
ton, of New- York.* There is also a brine spring near the head of Lit- 
tle Sodus bay, in this county, on the farm of Mr. Switzer. Of this 
water, Mr. Conrad informs us that one hundred and forty gallons are 
required for a bushel of salt, a strength still inferior to that of the for- 
mer, and which prevents it from being advantageously employed in the 
manufacture.! 
Again, in the village of Clyde, on the canal, salt water with inflam- 
mable gas, has been found by boring. The boring was 400 feet in 
depth. The brine yielded, at first, twenty ounces of saline matter to 
the gallon, but it soon ceased to flow, or was much diluted with fresh 
water. 
A few salines are known to exist in the county of Monroe. One of 
these, found many years since, is on the Irondoquoit Bay, two or three 
miles from Lake Ontario. Salt was at one time manufactured from this 
brine. Another spring, also formerly somewhat worked, is in the town 
of Greece, two miles north of the ridge road, and nine miles west of 
the city of Rochester. 
I was informed by Mr. E. K. Horsford, of Moscow, that salt water 
had been found in 1834, two and a half miles southwest of York, in 
Livingston county. Strong brine flowed for a few days from the mouth 
of the well, which was fifty feet in depth, but it subsequently dimi- 
nished in quantity, and at length entirely ceased to rise. 
Salt water has been found by boring in the town of Elba, in Genesee 
county, eight miles northwest of Batavia; and this, together with the 
brine springs in the towns of Murray and Richland, in Orleans county, 
are the most western localities hitherto discovered in this State. At 
Holley village, in the latter county, a brine spring occurs, from which 
a considerable amount of salt has been obtained. And in the town of 
Ridgeway, the same article has been made in quantities sufficient for the 
consumption of the inhabitants. 
Salt water w^as said to have been found in the county of Cattaraugus, 
but I have not been able to satisfy myself of the correctness of this as- 
sertion. From the frequent occurrence of gas springs in Chautauque 
* Silliman's Journal, vii. 344. 
t Mr. T. A. Conrad's Geological Report for 1837. 
