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HAVING occasion not long since to look up the statistics of the salt industry, I naturally turned to the latest edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica” (vol. xxi.), where the following statement met my eye:—“The deposits of salt in the United States are unimportant. The country possesses no really considerable salt industry, but is supplied so far as interior consumption is concerned to a small extent by brine springs.”
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MERRILL, G. The Salt Industry in the United States. Nature 37, 558 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037558a0
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