| Show ice and salt water I 1 notice in this mornings courier and enquirer a communication iii in relation to the removal of ITY te tty salt sait acneal aga agn J 11 S oi 01 t i i I 1 i b by salt water any more ih th in n pa pal pai i f surfaces are ario by soap and w ater daf r if 1 thi an are washed wished or off but if salt balt is allowed to remain benam on red sanz sany sandstone sand stone or marble steps it may I 1 if the effect of salt water was such a as s our correspondent suggests the rock strata of this earth would have long s r i i rendered a mass of de debris bris by the a ac C ti ii it c i L i I 1 sea sea lea water and by that of the sa imes s di ered over the earth limestone lime stone and ila ria iia ariam n 1 i I rocks are affected by salt and the th thee ee united in a sot sol solution altion form a compound compo unil uni such a as 3 i aste date beneath the falis falls of niagara and a large extent of country bordering our western lakes dakes my wig sig s ideation is to dissolve as much salt in water lii cli i the water is capable capable of holding in iii solution this poin poul f d on the t e ice will it rapid rapidly lv I 1 cannot conceive of any injurious effects filat it ca n have on railroads turks island salt is the best bet kind for rich B ich use as i t contains inore nwe of the deliquescing chlorides the object is to arlt the ice and clear it away I 1 have haxe in my colle collection cion clon a stone bottle filled with brine from the bolstein va salt mines it is of siiney degrees tyby the which is is as is much munh sa sal sai 11 as the cold water can cabb b mad made e to t ae iop lop y tio tim bottie bottle has been in mv iriv 1 cabinet rii uzi t n years and alli is now in as good order i i as the gl glis bottles cottini co staining ita taini ining brine professor cook v alo io was employed emp oyed by y the state government i ern ment to analyze amaly ze the waters of the daga salu es prel ex to me the tho opinion that tha sait salt sa t v ate a er r was corrosive corro i ve to such an extent that tb at it could not be kept in stone jugs I 1 sent hir hm one of lh the two stone bottles otties ott lea les which winch in 1846 1 I received 1 in r ni fhe the Ilo llo tein mines to show taj th all ail brines x ere not corr c asir e that bottle of brine is now in the S ite ate geological cabinet at albai albal albany y and ind is li i bared be red 1931 of my saili specimens ce posited deposited epo sited there by professor cool COOK and mentioned in his report to the state legislature ass asi abi ably D c 11 ment no 50 of 1854 1 I have hav no di debt bt ta the m bot hot ae e will remain good for centuries ibave ao aso a o three stone jugs juga filed with brine from the S i i lines of t syracuse lh lin i pooi pool ani aua salina winch have been boen used many years years in th the earth batt batay tiry connected with my electric a aa 4 meteoric mete wires wires inese these are e ex tave based to dil ail the changes of te t ure are i have had for many man years and remain unchanged they are shielded froia from the rain ait ai ale i wet I 1 Iha have oher coher brine idiz viz the water of th thi dead sea of lockpit lockett Lock pit and montezuma and an 1 the bittern of the sa sli lines of A all ail 11 these are arc 0 to greet sp specific cefic gravity and so corrosive th it t none of ahr in can be kept ia in ston kawha jugs uge rge tili bitte rings of the tha water of ke hacha contain a large jarge lai lal per of bromine and if thrown on th ground where cattle tread will desti destroy oy their hoot a th ile e borders of the lakes laes seneca and cavil ga are umer laid by salt water as dense as he the sea of sodom and the red i ed and green shale strata under the falls palls of ni I 1 iara gara lara which extends t ti st catharines Cathari hes canada contains this dense and ani borrosh e salt gait water I 1 have hav e row now before about a hundred separate paci cages lages bee gee of ta the lo 10 at stratas ratas passed in boring the lockpit cockpit well near cayuga lake these are affected by every change of moist molet atmosphere here I 1 have in the th e same collection borings bolings pl from r om the salines of onondaga ga which are not affected by bv a change of weather and presented beneath the bunace surface at the dept depofi of near three hundred feet a crue crust that resisted tho action odthe of the drills in sinking deep wells for hours and sometimes for days A cobble cobbie stone which was split in one of these thebe deep bor bo borins ringi inq ins and raised I 1 termed a Muri murl Murici cite tc its fracture is like that of polished steel and although not weighing more than a pound resisted the drill for two days when it was at length split th marks of the drill upon it show that two days chiseling chi did not cut into it a quarter of an inch in melting ice from railroad tracks it is easy I 1 to guard against corrosion if such a result is apprehended by D sweeping away the melted ice ac but I 1 thine think no such fear need be entertained E Bito bilo OKLYN HEIGHTS itei ITEr GitTs jan 2 1 1856 |
