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in the soil. Altho’ sea salt is 
the most common, yet several other- 
salts mixt with it, Epsom and Glau- 
ber salts, &c. or many sulphates and 
muriates. Few licks afford the pure 
muriate of soda. 
£. Sulphur Licks . Those where 
sulphates and hydrogene predomi- 
nate, rendering the soil or water 
fetid. 
3. Clay Licks. Where clay or 
marl chiefly abounds; often partly 
saline, and licked by wild beasts or 
tame cattle. The paint licks have 
colored ochres. 
Nay, these 3 kinds of licks are 
often near each other; at mud licks 
for instance, 4 springs, salt, sulphu- 
ric, vitriolic and chalybeate are 
found. But chalybeate spring^ are 
not called licks, because the cattle 
do not lick them. 
The licks are known at first sight 
by their barrenness, as little grass, 
few plants and fewer trees, grow 
among them, being commonly desti- 
tute of soil, and forming therefore 
many small barren spots among the 
fertile lands of Kentucky, from 100 
yards to one mile br more in extent. 
But few are stony; they are gene- 
rally formed by a thick stratum of 
clay, from 3 to 100 feet high, raised 
in heaps, slopes, hills or hollows: 
perpetually washed by rain into gul- 
lies or clefts, by the unshaded heat 
of the sun. 
To enumerate them properly, as 
counties are yet fluctuating in Ken- 
tucky, I have disposed them in 7 
groups, according to their situation 
near streams. 
Enumeration of all the Licks of Kentucky. 
I. Group. Near the Ohio river. 
1. Salt lick near Vanceburg and mouth 
of Salt Lick Creek. 
2. Bank Lick near Covington and Bank 
Lick Creek. 
3. Briarpatch Liqk on Stony creek, N, 
of Burlington. 
4. Sand Lick on creek do, opposite 
mouth of Miami. 
5. Double Lick on Woolpers cr. & do. 
6. Bigbone Lick on creek do. 
7. 8. Mud Lick and Upper Lick on 
mud cr. near last. 
9. Paint Lick on creek do. S. of 6. 
10, to 12. Flat Lick, Fern Lick and Bul- 
ger’s Lick, on Fern or Pond cr. S. of Lou- 
isville. 
13. 14. Mann Lick and Elk Lick, S. of 
those in the knobs. 
15. 16. Clover Lick and Tar spring 
Lick on Clover cr. 
17. to 20, White Lick and 3 other on 
Highland cr. 
21. Clear Lick, at fork of Clear cr. and 
Trade 'water cr. 
11. Group. — On the two Sandy Rivers, 
22. 24. On branches of Big Sandy. 
Rummer Lick in Beaver cr. in knobs, 
Cats Lick and Bigpaint Lick on the cr. 
bearing their names. 
25. 26. 27. On Little Sandy, 3 Salt 
Licks. Little Sandy L. Grayson L. Ber- 
ret Lick. Much salt made. 
Ill, Group. — Licks on Lickings river, 
which took its name from them. All in 
the limestone region. 
28. 29. On North fork, May’s Lick, a 
salt stony lick, and Stone Lick at the 
head of the fork. 
30. Grant Lick on Philips’ cr. branch 
of main fork, 
31 to 37. On Middle forks. Upper and 
lower Blue Licks, salt and stony. Cow 
Lick and Slate Lick on Cow cr. and Slate 
cr. Mud Licks or Olympian Springs, 4 
springs as stated on a brook. Station Lick 
and Burning Spring Lick near the head. 
37 to 47. Ten Licks on south fork. 
Fork Lick on Forklick creek. 
Four Licks below Cynthiana. 
Harrod’s Lick on Harrod’s cr. above 
Paris. — 2 Stone Licks on Stoners fork. 
Carlisle Lick, one mile W. of Carlisle 
oh Lick cr. 
Hinkston Lick on Hihkston fork. 
^ IV. Group. — Licks on the Kentucky 
river and branches, beginning near the 
head. 
48r Burning Spring at the source of 
Burning Spring fork of South fork. 
49 to 53. Five licks near Manchester 
and South fork, all Salt Licks, wherp 
much salt is made. Collins Lick, Goose 
Lick, Outlaw Lick, Elisha Lick, Redbird 
Lick. 
* 54. Estil Springs and Licks near Ir- 
vine. 
55. Salt Lick near moilth of Trouble- 
some cr. 
56 to 59. Red Lick, Blue Lick, Copper 
Lick and Rock Lick on 4 forks of Station 
Camp Creek. 
60 to 64. Paint L. White L. Big and 
Little Harman Lick, Button Lick, near 
Paintlick cr. 
65. 66. Silver Lick and Rocky Suck 
on Silver cr*, 
67. Stone Lick S. of Frankfort. 
68. Glen’s Lick E. of Frankfort 1 mile. 
