How Salt Is Manufactured At Turk's Island

Tho island bearing this familiar ñamo has been conspicuous. for its productiou of salt, of whioh raiUions of bushels limls , inio tho markets of the woi-ld, our own country reoeiving ubout hl million bushels annually. Salt is obtained from sea-water, by either extremo cold I ; here it is made bysolarevap tion. Lying nader th , iays of a il, the iea Boon gvresupitq water and leavea iis salt behind; and were il not for the influx of the nu of the ti' i ■ ! bvb tem of currents and tidee, tho ocean ly equator would soon bcuoii'o of salt. Por centuries, adi been taken of thia n%1 i, in the dry i salt i he ..i ;;-'.v. . , is lot into tg," . n .il, OUt thri agh the beaoh, whioh separates the '■al the interior lagoon i and sjffprdg a gooi i . beach ie a few rodi ■ ten oi Bfteea - ia width, and baokofthis, tending toward I ; loni a qna of a mué, was ori i :i oonvertod int tlttllOW, NS ot from eigl torn made of etiff marl or olay, oover ;.-v.t.1 hun re. t aores rating ground, divided into a greatmany g from ti quart r f an aert! (o twci oi e. ïhe.io hotherbylowtonewalls, which srrve also aa w . Lu tho iniddle ol these walle is an Lu olay, whioh provento the passage al waq one tank to anotl is 1y the 1 i i . btaough apply is regulftted. Uw ter in thes pane is foond in all stages of ation. lu sume, you seo the e' limpid v. iter of : in others, it c dled appearance, and, whea il in tixe procesa, it aanua.es a plor. Ihe fiist pond allows the subsidence of mud and O il impurities, and is, oonsaquantly, the finid runs Erom tank to tank, it .omes thicker, .:'■)■ Mid lieeon. umi more oonoentraled, until it reaohes tho last and Bhallowest pan, w gin to appear on its ■ I As are thu iiarcst, ■ ' H)l!. forastiü longer time, moro ■t on i 'i'lu'y are tábon hauled in etuis to the 'i, white anow-b . bom the ship'a Thia salt is mo a impuro - the ehief impurifcy being chloride a sima - and, to get nd of this, tl h ure oovored with straw and liay ; tha . a, being ■■- moisture froaa the atekosphere and diaias off, leaving the pure chloride of sodium - cómmon salt- -1)0hind. To produce the same result, tit ; slaked lime is plaoed in the last tanks. The 5 ot' .salt by solar itly UpOU ■ of r.iin ; and Tui I this as extreme heat in aun! .' .. [n ad lition, the fcrade winda he aurfaoe of tho thus facilítate vapowation -