The present state of the manufacture of salt explained : and a new mode suggested of refining British salt ... to which is subjoined, a plan for abolishing the present duties ... on the manufacture of salt ... / [Archibald Cochrane Dundonald].
- Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The present state of the manufacture of salt explained : and a new mode suggested of refining British salt ... to which is subjoined, a plan for abolishing the present duties ... on the manufacture of salt ... / [Archibald Cochrane Dundonald]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ l 46 ] f perhaps* the belt materials that are any where to be met with. In his laft publication of the year 1784 he has divided the kingdom of France into fix great divifions, correfponding to the different rates of the gabelle, or fait tax, which take place in thefe different parts of France. Then he {hews the number of inhabitants in each divifion, the quantity of fait confumed by them, the price of fait in each diftrid, and the average quantity confumed by each indi- vidual, reckoning at a certain rate per head for perfons of either fex and of all ages. The whole of thefe eftimates, fo full of ufeful information, have been drawn up with great clearnefs and precifion ; and Mr. Necker has accompanied that information with a good deal of detail, (hewing the grounds on which his calculations were formed. The following fhort Abftrad, compofed from the materials afforded by Mr. Necker, may ferve, however, to give, at one view, a general idea of the re- fult of his refearches, in fo far as relates to thz population of France, and the confump- tion of fait* ABSTRACT](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28769478_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
