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In nearly the same pamllel of latitude with the preceding, in Dela- 
ware county, a brine spring was discovered in 1833. It is situated 
upon Elk brook, about four miles from the village of Delhi. We are 
informed that a well has been bored about 400 feet in depth, 350 being 
through rock, and that during the boring, several veins of brine were 
struck, from which some salt has been manufactured. 
Proceeding westwardly, we find brine springs near Vernon Centre, 
in Oneida, and again about nine or ten miles farther west, in the same 
county. These, according to Mr. Eaton, are the first brine springs in 
the red or saliferous rock of western New- York. And here, as in va- 
rious parts of Ohio, they are accompanied by carburetted hydrogen gas, 
which in some cases is evolved in large quantities. 
At Lenox, in Madison county, a brine spring was discovered some 
years since, of such strength as to induce several persons to believe that 
it might be advantageously employed in the manufacture of salt. But 
these anticipations have not been realized, and the locality deserves to 
be noticed only in the geographical view which I am now presenting. 
A short distance west of the above point, brine springs have been 
found at intervals for upwards of a hundred miles in a range, a little 
west of north. Thus, near the Chenango Forks, in Broome county, 
salt water has been found by boring. It is said also to occur in the 
county of Cortland. We next come to the celebrated springs of Onon- 
daga county, to be particularly described hereafter. And finally, we 
have in nearly the same range several weak brine springs in Oswego 
county. One of these occurs in a marsh in the town of Hastings, four 
miles west of Central Square. Two miles west of this is another, 
while at Central Square is still another. Neither of these salines, how- 
ever, are of much importance, as the amount of saline matter which 
they contain seldom exceeds twelve ounces in the gallon of water. Si- 
milar salines exist also in the towns of Constantia, Richland, Hannibal 
and Stirling, in the same county. 
The brine springs of Montezuma, in Cayuga county, come next in 
order. These have been long known and extensively worked ; and al- 
though the manufacture of salt from them has, within a few years past, 
greatly declined, they are still second in importance only to the Onon- 
daga springs. 
Wayne county contains several salines. Those at Galen were at one 
time in considerable repute. Works were erected there at great ex- 
