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SALINE SPRINGS. 
States in 1829, was 3,804,229 bushels; of which the 
Onondaga springs furnished 1,291,220 bushels. In 
1835, the amount of salt made at these sprmgs was 
S,222,694 bushels ; so that, reckoning the total 
amount of salt manufactured in the United States, 
at present, to amount to 8,000,000 bushels, the 
springs of Onondaga furnish more than one fourth 
of the whole. The following statement exhibits 
the relative strength of the different brines from 
which salt is made in the United States : One bushel 
of salt is obtained from 450 gallons of sea-water at 
Nantucket; 450 gallons of brine at Boon's Lick 
(Missouri) ; 300 do. Conemaugh (Penn.) ; 280 do. 
Shawneetown (111.); 213 do. Jackson (Ohio); 180 
do. Lockhart's (Mississippi); 123 do. Shawneetown; 
120 do. St. Catharine's (U. C.) ; 95 do. Zanesville 
(Ohio) ; 75 do. Kenawha (Virginia) ; 80 do. Grand 
River (Arkansas) ; 50 do. Muskingum (Ohio) ; 41 to 
45 do. Onondaga (N. Y.) ; thus showing that the 
saline springs of New- York are the strongest yet 
discovered. 
Prof. Beck, in his able Report to the Legislature, 
from which these facts are gathered, maintains, 
with great plausibility, that these salines originate 
from a solution of beds of rock-salt, at a considera- 
ble distance below the surface, and recommends 
deep borings to ascertain the fact. We have not 
space for his arguments, which are numerous, and 
to us perfectly conclusive. The valleys of the 
Ohio and Mississippi abound in sahne springs of 
various degrees of strength. Indeed, nearly, if not 
entirely, the whole valley of the Ohio is based on 
saliferous or muriatiferous rocks, which afford an 
abundance of water highly charged with muriate 
of soda. We find it stretching along the base of 
the Alleghany range of mountains, amid the coal 
and sandstones of that region; and Dr. Hildreth 
supposes that it extends far north to Lake Erie, 
though at a considerable depth. The rock which 
