. De re metallica. Metallurgy; Mineral industries. 556 BOOK XII. alwaj's provides a new and copious supply, always boiling hot, it condenses the thickened water poured into the pans into salt ; this is at once taken out with shovels, and then the work begins all over again. If the salty water contains other juices, as is usually the case with hot springs, no salt should be made from them. Others boil salt water, and especially sea-water, in large iron pots ; this salt is blackish, for in most cases they bum straw under them. Some people boil in these pots the brine in which fish is pickled. Th
. De re metallica. Metallurgy; Mineral industries. 556 BOOK XII. alwaj's provides a new and copious supply, always boiling hot, it condenses the thickened water poured into the pans into salt ; this is at once taken out with shovels, and then the work begins all over again. If the salty water contains other juices, as is usually the case with hot springs, no salt should be made from them. Others boil salt water, and especially sea-water, in large iron pots ; this salt is blackish, for in most cases they bum straw under them. Some people boil in these pots the brine in which fish is pickled. The salt which they make tastes and smells of -Vat into which the salt water flows, bucket with pole fastened into it. Ladle. D—Small Those who make salt by pouring brine over firewood, lay the wood in trenches which are twelve feet long, seven feet wide, and two and one half feet deep, so that the water poured in should not flow out. These trenches are constructed of rock-salt wherever it is to be had, in order that they should not soak up the water, and so that the earth should not fall in on the front, back and sides. As the charcoal is turned into salt at the same time as the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555; Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964. New York, Dover Publications
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