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... beds , or strata . One of these had been worked for more than a hundred years , when another was discovered below it , but separated by a bed of hardened clay , or soft stone , be- tween thirty and forty feet thick . This lower stratum ...
... beds , or strata . One of these had been worked for more than a hundred years , when another was discovered below it , but separated by a bed of hardened clay , or soft stone , be- tween thirty and forty feet thick . This lower stratum ...
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... bed of salt continues for a mile and a half , as measured one way , almost east and west , and about three quarters of a mile across it . The thickness of the stratum of salt is from sixty to almost a hundred feet . Its upper parts are ...
... bed of salt continues for a mile and a half , as measured one way , almost east and west , and about three quarters of a mile across it . The thickness of the stratum of salt is from sixty to almost a hundred feet . Its upper parts are ...
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... bed of salt has not been ascer- tained ; but they have sunk above forty feet into it , without finding its bottom . In another place , three distinct beds have been discovered : one of them four feet thick ; a second twelve feet ; and ...
... bed of salt has not been ascer- tained ; but they have sunk above forty feet into it , without finding its bottom . In another place , three distinct beds have been discovered : one of them four feet thick ; a second twelve feet ; and ...
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... beds of saline substance upon the land , but the depths of the sea are hidden from us . There is nothing irra- tional in the supposition , that there may be also mountains and layers of salt intermingled with SEA SALT . 15 the mountains ...
... beds of saline substance upon the land , but the depths of the sea are hidden from us . There is nothing irra- tional in the supposition , that there may be also mountains and layers of salt intermingled with SEA SALT . 15 the mountains ...
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... bed of the sea . The continual agitation of the waters by the tides will occasion a continual supply of the saline principle , if that be needful . The saltness of the sea is absolutely necessary to preserve it from putrefaction ...
... bed of the sea . The continual agitation of the waters by the tides will occasion a continual supply of the saline principle , if that be needful . The saltness of the sea is absolutely necessary to preserve it from putrefaction ...
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