An essay on salt : containing notices of its origin, formation, geological position and principal localities, embracing a particular description of the American salines : with a view of its uses in the arts, manufactures and agriculture : delivered as a lecture before the New-York Lyceum of Natural History / by Jer. Van Rensselaer.

  • Jeremiah Van Rensselaer
Date:
1823
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Credit: An essay on salt : containing notices of its origin, formation, geological position and principal localities, embracing a particular description of the American salines : with a view of its uses in the arts, manufactures and agriculture : delivered as a lecture before the New-York Lyceum of Natural History / by Jer. Van Rensselaer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    t 'I'he l)ed of Eric will then form an extensive plain or valley, bounded by the distant hills, ajid watered by a small lake or river, which will give [jassage to the St. Clair and Huron, and form a prolonged chan- nel to the River Detroit. Here the geologists of luture periods wdll find a fresh w'ater formation in successive strata upon the limestone bed. These strata will probably be a coarse sandstone with argil- laceous marl, containing fresh w'ater shells ; among others, some of the Uniones, so w'ell described by our colleague Mr. Barnes. These wjll be sedimentary fresh water formations produced almost entirely by mechanical means, i, e. the deposition of earthy mat- ters, coarse or fine, envelloping organized bodies. They may have a different structure from other fresh water formations. The layers may be distinct and numerous, with a coarse sandy grain, having the usual perforations to manifest the extrication of gas The following is the quantity of water computed to be con* tiiiued in our great uothern lakes. IMeilium Superficial area in Solid contents in feet. depth.. square I'eet. Superior, 900 feet 836.352,000,000 752,716,800,000,1 oO Mui on, 900 557,568,000,000 501 811.200,000,000 Michigan. 900 376,898,400,000 339,208,660,00(-,t;00 J'’rie. 120 418,176.000,000 50,181,120.000.000 Ontario, 492 200.724,4 h0,u00 98.756,44 4,160.000 2,389,718,880,000 1,659,237,644,160,000
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