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Show A Itoail 1 r solid Salt. Al'uofBteil. Theicradlugof a read of solid silt was uutll recently au tin-eipcclid tin-eipcclid task lu inglneirlu, und Is thus described li) one of Itn oicraturi In whul is known as the Duilh valley wu found n stretch ut lolld salt about eight mlleeacrots In n senso It was level there were no hills or alhss. In another sense thcru was senrcel) n level square Inch oil thu whulu bids, for the salt trust hud, i robnbl) througu thulntluonciHOf the ho it fruui ubovo nnd of moisture from Lclo-v, bun torn and twialid und throwii up lu Ihu must Jagged 1 eitks, ) ramids aud crli.uoittd rldgealmaglunble. Iho) were not high iioue more than four feet but tln.ro was not a level sjace uvui for a man's foot bo twicn them. Lvery slip made waa on n ragged jiolnt ur udgo of some kiud, rim ntatrat approach to an) thing ill a II at 1 hat e ever seen w as on tho Ice 011 I ako l.rk, whore two fields had teen Illumed together b) tbuwlti 1 uud held so by Ihu frost. f.iu ragged loo nuns were somewhat like these gelt uiasics. riu) wire larger, but they weru not so sharper luutiy way so dlllleulito cross. Ju (gluts that the crust would sustain tho weight or tbo wagons the workmen swung the sludge hnmmer day utter day until they had Iwakn duu u these pinnacles Into n smooth way six reel wide. It WMi.tiiai the most labor-tins labor-tins utiglurirlug work over donu lu Ihu country, ror tbo climate nml locution, locu-tion, fir Horn elvlllred habitations, combined lo retard Hie ifljrts of thu workmen. Tno roidwny, when com pleled, led over what may bo rorerly lallid u naturally formed brldguursait tight mike long the only onu ot the kind In tho world. Aa one cuius thu instcrly und of this road two unmarked graves aru set 11 In the suit cunt near iho Hack. The) am the grave of unknown mm who died thin- from tho In at, uud, utter the fashion of the country, were lulled where limy fell. They wera covered over with pieces of salt I roken from thu pinnacles near h). Tbu crust wns too hard to warrmitdUglug Into it One must travel -t long lime to llnd two more gravel like time, If lu tied two more can be found In Hit world. bbbbbbbbbbbSSSS |