30'i MlN'Efj MI’.'IAL'), ANO GEMS. 
ihat of a natural road under the mountain 0‘ 
Norv.’ay, situated in a territory which abounds svin.^jti* 
productions This natural curiosity is so well e 
the plate, as not to need a particular description 
SALT MINES. 
Hence rvith diflFnsive salt old ocean steeps 
His emerald shallows, and his sapphire deep 
Oft ill wide lakes, around iheir wanner hrim. 
In hollow pyramids the crystals swim; 
Or, fused hy earih-horn fires, in cubic 
Shoot llieir wide forms, and harden into I'o 
Culinary salt, or, as it is termed in chemistp'),^^ 
soda, exists abundantly in a native state, botlr j(,ii,.ii 
form, and dissolved in water. It occurs, in 
only diroughout the wide range of the ocean, jojid' ./ 
springs, rivers, and lakes; and is known, in 
I . .1 . pf roc.K-^' l 
as a peculiar mineral, under the naine.s u, ' 
salt, and salt-^em. Its beds are mostly fi |f 
surface of the ground, but sometimes nse_« ^ (jil'V 
considerable elevation. At Cordova, in 
d> , idl , r 
tween four and five hundred feet in height, 
a four and live liunilrea tec: in neigm, , ,^iij r 
posed of this mineral. But the most celebrate" 
are those of Wielicza in Gallicia, common } ci / 
are those or vvieiicza in u.iuieiu, ,,1, “.fi 
salt mines of Cracow, those of Tyrol, of P° ® j,, 
tille in Spain, and of Che.shire in Eiiigland. 
vince of Labor, in Hindostan, is a hill ot 
equal magnitu.de with tliat near Cordova. 
Iletski, in Russia, yield vast quantities ot i 
It is so plentiful in the desert of Caramanta, 
dry, tliat it is there used as a material i"’’ ■ gri' ,/ji 
forms the surflice of a large part of the nori' ,iri / 
Lybia ; and is found in great abundance i» ^ -ifll'.Jj 
of Peru. It has a pure saline taste, 
of bitterness ; and crystalizes in cubes 
slow evaporation from its solution. In i’^.j^ 
of this kind are numerous : one of the 1'^^;. J 
Hallein, near Saltzburg, in which the sal .'i- 
from subterraneous caverns of a considerhbl"^^,^ii' L 
exhibits almost every diversity of colour, •'= v f 
. . 1 1 • . ! ' « t* ,irh Irll * /ilK 
blue, and white; in consequcuice of wbicb ^ 
in water, to be liberated from its impun 
