An essay on salt : containing notices of its origin, formation, geological position and principal localities, embracing a particular description of the American salines : with a view of its uses in the arts, manufactures and agriculture : delivered as a lecture before the New-York Lyceum of Natural History / by Jer. Van Rensselaer.

  • Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, 1793-1871.
Date:
1823
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on salt : containing notices of its origin, formation, geological position and principal localities, embracing a particular description of the American salines : with a view of its uses in the arts, manufactures and agriculture : delivered as a lecture before the New-York Lyceum of Natural History / by Jer. Van Rensselaer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    3/78 (page 5)
    AN ESSAY ON SALT. 3-iio/o, — sacred salt. HomcrU II. ix- However much geologists may differ in the clas- sification or arrangement of rocks and soils, they all agree that what is termed the secondary, forms the most important portion of the habitable globe; fur- nishes the greatest quanluni of soil cultivated by man ; and yields at large the greatest proportion of those substances which contribute to his comfort and happiness. The common division of rocks into primitive, tran- sition, and secondary, has thus far been generally followed by scientific writers on the subject of geo- logy. To me it seems probable, that future investi- gations will induce geologists to abolish the class transition, and to adopt anew one : in wliicli case we shall have,