Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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always provides a new and copious supply, always boiling hot, it condenses
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the thickened water poured into the pans into salt; this is at once taken
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out with shovels, and then the work begins all over again. </
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contains other juices, as is usually the case with hot springs, no salt should
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>Others boil salt water, and especially sea-water, in large iron pots;
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this salt is blackish, for in most cases they burn straw under them. </
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people boil in these pots the brine in which fish is pickled. </
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they make tastes and smells of fish.</
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>A—TRENCH. B—VAT INTO WHICH THE SALT WATER FLOWS. C—LADLE. D—SMALL
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BUCKET WITH POLE FASTENED INTO IT.</
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>Those who make salt by pouring brine over firewood, lay the wood in
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trenches which are twelve feet long, seven feet wide, and two and one half
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feet deep, so that the water poured in should not flow out. </
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are constructed of rock-salt wherever it is to be had, in order that they should
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not soak up the water, and so that the earth should not fall in on the front,
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back and sides. </
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