Mi^er, lo.Whcther our Salt be as good to powder Beef or other Flefh 
as French Salt ^ 
Afiftv. It Is, and I believe there cannot be better white Salt then ours 
for feverai Reafons. 
1. There is none can be wh{ter,and confeqpently more free from drofs. 
2. It is the weightieft as I havefeen my fclf, and been informed byo- 
thers/or the baggs of Salt I have ufually feen brought out of Che(hire on 
Horfeback, contain 6. bufhels and a half or 7. bufhels, whereas the beft 
Horfes that carry Salt from hence (if they carry it above 5. miles) carry 
not above s.ftrike and 3. pecks^or 4. ftrike. A Winchefier bulhel of our 
Salt weighs halfa hundred weight, (othat it muft neceffarily follow, 
the weightyeft and drleft muft needs be the beft. 
3 In the time of the firft P^^c^-Warr^our Salt was carried down into 
the Weft, where they had before none but forreign Salt, where at the 
iirft ufing ours, they complained that it made their meat too fair, 
which wasbecaufe they put as much of ours on theirmeat as of others; 
if fo, it muft be better then French Salt. This account I had from him 
hat carried our Salt into thofe parts. 
^ 4. 1 have been aflured by many that have made ufe both of ours, and 
Chefhire Salt^ that both for Flefti and white-meat they muft lay on more 
of Chefhire S^\t then ours. 
5. It doth preferve all forts of Flelh for long Voyages,wa. to Jamai- 
ca^ as well as any, which hath been lately tried. 
I have feen Herrings that have been falted with our Salt in Ireland^ 
and brought over to thisTown,which have been whiter and better taft- 
ed than thofe falted with Bay Salt* 
7. It is an ordinary way of powdering Beef with us, to give it but 
one Salting to keep it the whole year* 
If it is asked why we ufe not Iron- Pans as in Chefhire and other places? 
There have been tryals made both of forged Iron- Pans and caft-Iron» 
The former the ftrength of the Brine doth fo corrode^ that it quickly 
wears them out; the latter the Brine breaks. 
SIR, If there is any thing more of which you defire an information, 
I (hall f if I may know it) indcavour to inform you, that am 
Droytwitch March Tonr humble Servant 
theidth. id7«. 
iHO. KASTEL. 
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