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of ih our Salt-works 5 and this not nigh any River or great 
brookjasall our Salt-fprings in this Country are. I fliould 
fcarce have adventured to write this toyou^ had I not believ- 
ed, that this difcovcry might perhaps prove ufefull towards 
the fining up of feme blank corner of a Page in the Hijiory of 
Nature, However I am perfwaxded, that fuch Ingenuity, as 
polJefleth the R, Society^ cannot but pardon my boldnefi, ari- 
fing from a zeal to ferve fuch Benefaftors to Humane nature^ 
And if you defire to know anymore particulars concerning 
this matter, a Letter of yours directed ^ * * (ball 
comrpand me to view the place, and there to inquire after the 
circumftances, and communicate.them toyou, &e* 
7 hk being fo, accept able an offer ^ the Author of the Letter vpiX 
deftred- accordingly, to give himfelf the trouble of viewing the 
place him[elf : Which defire he not only hath very obligingly com- 
plied vpithx but alfo imparted what he learned in that view^ as fol" 
iom^ 
I am juft now returned from vifiting and viewing the Salt- 
work, and find things according to my Friends Relation: 
Only whereas I underftocd him, that no running water came 
nearit, I now perceive, that he fpoke of none that was con- 
fiderable, or none that might annoy it. For there runs near 
it (at le2ft inthe Winter feafon) a fmallrindle (or gutter ra- 
ther 5 ) but it is wholly free from all danger of overflowing 5 
which threatens all other Salt-pits in this County, every great 
ftowerjthrough the vicinity of Rivers. 
The Rock of Salt, by the relation of the Work men, is be- 
t ween 33, and 34. yards diftant from the Surface of the Earth 3 
about 30 whereof are already digged ; and they hope to be 
at the Flagg, which covers the Salt-rock, about three weeks . 
hence, I doubt, it will be feveral months, before I canac- 
commodatt^ you with a parcel of it 5 that which the auger 
brought up, being long fince difpofeJ of, and the v\ork-men 
not daring to remove the Flagg, till the Frame be fidfh't and 
well fetled for the fecuring of the work from the circumja- 
cent earth> , The Overfeer jhath promifed to furnilh me with a 
