SALT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Soluble in water. 
Decomposed by vitriolic acid, the marine acid of the salt 
rising in the form of a strong suffocating vapour. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Muria AttUATiCA. M. fixa decrepitans formae cubicae aqua 
soluta. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 3. p. 260. 
A fixed salt, crackling when heated 3 of a 
cubic form 3 soluble in water. 
a Muria marina. Waller . Syst. Miner. 2. 
p. 55. no. 4. a. b. d. 
jS Muria lacustris. Car theus. Miner. 37. 
y Muria fontana. Waller. Syst. Miner. 1 . 
p. 57. no. 5. 
$ Muria thermalis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
xii. 3. p. 98. no. 4. 
g Muria fossilis. Waller. Miner. 2. 
p. 53. no. 1. 
Common Salt. . Cronst. Miner, l.p.3 57- Kir wan, Miner .'l, 
p. 31. Brogn. Miner. 1 . p. 120. 
The varieties of this useful mineral are distin- 
guished by the different situations in which they 
are found: thus we have sea salt, rock salt, lake 
