. Geology and agriculture. y production of salt.—From the following table of theyearly production of salt at Petite Anse it will be seen that theoutput reached its maximum shortly after the completion ofrailroad connections and that after the discovery of rock-salt inKansas in 1888-1889 it suffered a heavy decline. Although the The Petite .se Salt Mine, by Richard A. Pomeroy. Trans. Am. Eng., vol. 17, pp. 107-113, 1888. I Supplement k la G^ologie Pratique. He Petite Anse. Comp. Ren. G^l. See. France. 2dseries, vol. 20. 1863. p. 543. * Mineral Resources of the United States for 18S2.
. Geology and agriculture. y production of salt.—From the following table of theyearly production of salt at Petite Anse it will be seen that theoutput reached its maximum shortly after the completion ofrailroad connections and that after the discovery of rock-salt inKansas in 1888-1889 it suffered a heavy decline. Although the The Petite .se Salt Mine, by Richard A. Pomeroy. Trans. Am. Eng., vol. 17, pp. 107-113, 1888. I Supplement k la G^ologie Pratique. He Petite Anse. Comp. Ren. G^l. See. France. 2dseries, vol. 20. 1863. p. 543. * Mineral Resources of the United States for 18S2. .Salines of Louisiana, by 564, 1SS3. •f Mineral of the United States for 1SS5-1SS4, p. 841. 1885. t Salt by C. A. Goessman. Johnsons Universal Cyclopsedia. New York. 1895. , American Cyclopa;dia. Salt. New York, iSSi. vol. 14, p. 572 Buck, C. E., and Goessman, C. A. On the rock-salt deposits of the Petite-se. La. SaltCompany, Report of American Bureau of Mines, New York. Ill] The Five Islands : Petite Anse 249 « quality of the Kansas salt is inferior to that of Petite Anse, itsnearness to the great packing houses largely offsets the differ-ence. Production of on Pktite Anse.* Year. Short tons. Year. Short tons. ? 1888 25,214 1861-1862 200- 500 1889 45,588 1862-1863 10,000-30,000 1890 39,978 1868-1880 5,000 189I 24,320 1881 15,000 1892 28,000 1882 1893 26,800 1883 37,130 1894 26,047 1884 31,355 1895 22,368 1885 41,898 1896 24,236 1886 41,957 1887 47,750 *i88i to 1896 from mineral resources of the U. S. The Lakes: a zoological problem.—The lakes on the island areof the same origin as those on Grand C6te. These fresh waterlakes, three on Petite Anse, five on Grand Cote and one on BelleIsle, offer material for a very interesting scientific as they are from other bodies of fresh water and sepa-rated from the main land by sea marshes we would naturallylook for some faunal peculiarities. Although
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