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feated OTi Leathern Dogs (as they term it) about forty 
Fathom deep ; after which we again defcended one hun- 
dred Fathom, by holding ourfelves perpendicularly againft ‘ 
the Wall and Sides of the Wells , and having again- 
continued our Journey under Ground in the Salt- work, 
we then found ourfelves in the Cuts, and faw all the 
Allies cut in the fineft Rock-Salt ; in the midft of 
which there were here and there fome Veins of Flint 
of a dark Grey. The Miners work to cut this Rock- 
Salt, which they draw up by a Rope, and put it into 
a Refervoir, where they cleanfe it with Salt-water. 
They boil it afterwards with the fame Water, until it 
becomes of the Confidence of Cryftal, and then put 
it into VefTels, which contain about x68lt>. Weight each, 
and then fend it into S'tlejia and other Countries. 
In regard to the Vegetable or Fofil Salt, it is ex- 
treamly white and tranfparent; it is in fuch Plenty in 
' the Salt-works of the County of Mar mar near T ran- 
Jylvania^ where there are large Mountains entire of 
Salt, that one might furnifh the whole World, in re- 
gard to the great Quantity; as alfo, becaufe as fowl 
as you cut it, it grows again a-new in a very fhort 
Time. They break and cut it, and although it ap- 
pear at firft black, neverthelefs in pounding it becomes 
extreamly white ; And fo it is with that which they 
ufe themfelves in Hungary (for they fend all the Salt 
of Sdoisodr into Foreign Countries.) You find almoft 
in every Inn, two Stones like to thofe ufed to make 
Mudard, between which they pound and break that 
Sort of Rock-Salt ; and one finds alfo in their Stables, 
large Pieces of that Mineral, which the Cattle lick at 
Pltafure. 
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