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first variety, the rock salt of Cheshire,* and the salt mines 
of Weileicska in Poland are examples.! It sometimes forms 
hills ; such is the case at Cordova in Spain, and in Molda¬ 
via. $ In this country the mineral is found in a state of so¬ 
lution in salt springs. No traces of rock salt have yet been 
discovered, although it appears to be the united opinion of 
mineralogists that such springs communicate with, or ori¬ 
ginate from beds or strata of that substance.§ The princi¬ 
pal places in the United States, where salt has been found 
are the following. In the state of New-York, in the coun¬ 
ties of Onondaga, Cayuga, Genesee, Seneca, and Ontario. 
In 1800, these produqed 42,754 bushels, and 1810, 543,000.If 
In Virginia and Tennessee—In Ohio, on the Scioto—In the 
Indiana Territory, on the Wabash.lf In Kentucky, where 
5 springs supply 36 works, which manufactured in 1810, 
324,870 bushels.** Salt is also found in Louisiana. This 
mineral is also made from sea water by spontaneous evapo¬ 
ration. Works for this purpose have been established at 
various places on the coast. At Sagharbor, in Massachu¬ 
setts,tt and in North-Carolina4! With all these resources 
we are still obliged annually to import three millions of bush¬ 
els of salt,§§ of which more than one half was obtained from 
* Vide Holland’s Survey of Cheshire. 
\ These mines have been worked since the year 1251. They 
are 900 feet deep, and extend more than a league from east to 
west. (Jameson’s Mineralogy, vol. 2, p. 15.) 4 Ibid. 
§ Kidd’s Mineralogy, vol. 2, p. 9. 
j| The following is the amount made in each county, taken 
from Goodenow’s Statistical Manual of this State, p. 9. 
In Onondaga, 453,8401 lam informed by Dr. Kirkpatrick, 
Cayuga, 54,0u0 I superintendent of the Onondaga Salt 
Genessee, 1,400 i Works,, that a million of bushels of 
Seneca, 25,000 ; Salt might be made annually at 
Ontario, about 8,760 f the works in the western district. 
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543,000J 
If 130,000 bushels were made in 1810, on the Wabash. 
** Morse’s Geography, art. Kentucky. 
ff In Massachusetts there were 118,757 bushels made in 1810, 
and the works extended over 468,198 feet (Morse.) 
44 Works covering 275,000 feet were not long since erected 
there, (Gallatin.) 
§§ Gallatin’s letter on the importation of salt, Med. Repos, vol. 
12, p. 285. 
