Salt works
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Whitman's hand | blue double overline and underline |
| Highlighting | yellow background with top and bottom border |
| Paste-on | gray box with black borders |
| Laid in | white box with black borders |
| Erasure | white text with dark gray background |
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
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Salt works
at Salina ("Salt Point") now a portion of Syracuse, N.Y. Onondaga co. (as Williamsburg is a part of Brooklyn) There are some salt springs,—Also they bore into the neighboring ground—(sometimes 300 ft. deep)—50, 70, 100 ft
A "block" is erected, in which there are arches, with kettles for boiling the water—these are kept fired under day and night,—till at the end of a week they have to be cleaned of the sediment, coating, &c.—
by the kettles are baskets and ladles to take out and contain the salt—a spout and trough over ranging over the kettles lets in the water as it is wanted—
evaporation supplies the best salt——It is put in bags and large boxes, and sent off on the canals
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