INDEX
- Agricola (Georgius) on salt-making, 15, 18, 56
- America, salt-making in, 127–135
- —, vacuum system in, 135
- Brine, battle of the, 121
- —, composition of, 7
- —, economy in production of, by Furnival, 78
- —, evaporation of, 3
- —, Dr. Jackson on the process, 56–60
- —, old reservoirs of, 104
- —, output at Northwich, 53
- —, treatment of, in early days, 40
- Brine-making, methods of Dr. Jackson, Rastel, Lowndes, Brownrigg, Chrysel, Furnival, Holland, 56–73
- Brine-tapping, improved process described, 106, 107
- Camden’s Britannia, derivation of suffix “wich,” 32
- —, supply and treatment of brine described, 40, 42
- Chambers’s Journal, a subsidence described, 113, 114
- Cheshire, the “wiches” of, 32, 34
- —, extent of deposits in, 83–96
- Chrysel, persecution of, 71
- Domesday Book, references to salt works in Cheshire, rules governing the trade, 34–37
- Droitwich, salt-making there, A.D. 816, 33
- Furnival, Wm., introduces steam heat, 76
- —, economy in production by; alarm of salt proprietors, 78
- —, persecution of, a victim to Cheshire salt proprietors, 76–82
- —, his patents, 77;
- —, his end, 82
- Hodgkinson (Jas.), his system, 76, 138–141
- Holland (Philemon), 32
- Holland (Sir Thos.), his eulogy of the Hodgkinson process, 141
- Jackson, (Dr. W.), 56
- Johnson (Geo.), account of treatment of brine by, 42, 43
- King’s Vale Royal, particulars relating to Cheshire salt districts, 43, 44
- Lakes, or “Flashes,” 103, 104, 112, 113
- Lowndes (Thos.), improved method of brine-making by, 62, 65
- —, persecution of, 71
- Marbury, discovery of salt at, in 1670, 97
- Marbury Pipe, 54, 122, 123
- Martindale (Adam), Communication to Royal Soc., 97
- Mendeléeff, on crystallization, 5
- Middlewich owners and number of salt-houses at, 51
- —, output at, 54
- Nantwich owners and number of salt-houses at; decline of industry at, 51, 53
- Nevada, rock-salt at, 3
- New York, salt-springs in; methods employed there, 127
- Northwich, Adelaide Marston mine, 98
- —, earliest manufacture in England, 32
- —, output of brine at, 53
- —, the “Walling Booke” of, 48
- Ormerod, on the origin of the salt field of Cheshire, 84, 85
- Rainfalls, cycles of, affecting salt deposits, 91
- Rastel (Dr. Thos.), method of evaporation of brine at Droitwich, 60–62
- Rock-salt, purest in Hungary, 1;
- rarely found pure, ib.
- Rock-salt Mining—a dead industry; method of working, 101–103
- Royal Society, Phil. Trans., 56, 60
- Rumania, deposits in, 20, 26
- —, estimated reserves and annual output, 28
- Salt, Adelaide Marston mine, 98
- —, ancient orders concerning, 44–48
- —, beginnings of the industry, 8, 9, 10
- —, chemistry and properties of, 1
- —, Chinese methods of making, 11
- —, colour of, 2
- —, convict labour, 20
- —, crystals in, 4
- —, decline of industry at Nantwich, 52, 53
- —, depth and thickness of deposit at Northwich, 90
- —, discovery of, at Marbury in 1670, 97
- —, Domesday Book—reference to salt in A.D. 1084, 33
- —, earliest manufacture in England, 32
- —, effect upon sea-water, 2
- —, experiments for removal of impurities in, 30, 31
- —, formation and extent of Cheshire deposits, 83–96
- —, importation of, 38
- —, Italian method of making, 12
- —, Japanese methods of making, 12
- —, lectures on, by Ward (Thos.), 126
- —, Mendeléeff on, 6
- —, method of working top and bottom beds, 100
- —, name first given, 1
- —, Portuguese and Spanish method of making, 14
- —, preservative property of, 6, 9
- —, Rastel’s account of clarifying, 61, 62
- —, solubility of, 2
- —, symbol of sanctity, 9
- —, theories respecting deposits, 85–90
- —, Prof. Thompson’s calculations, 92–96
- —, value in agriculture, 6
- Salt-beds, area of Cheshire, 92
- “Salt-licks,” 8
- Salt-makers, conservatism of, 18
- Salt-making, methods of, 125–129
- —, methods employed in America, 127, 135
- —, processes of, 127
- —, vacuum system, 135, et seqq.
- Salt-Market, the, 142–147
- —, mines, collapse of, various dates, 103, 107, 108
- Salt-pans, recovery of old, 39
- Salt-trade, competition in, 144, 145
- Salt Union, 54
- — —, alleged rights of, 123, 124
- — —, “Battle of the Brine,” 121
- — —, brine carrying by, 122, 123
- — —, large capital of, 145
- — —, newspaper comments, 146–147
- — —, opposition to new processes by, 142
- — —, Wharton Works, 79–81
- Subsidences, 97–123
- —, causes of, 108–112
- —, described 113
- —, damage to property, 115, 116
- —, Compensation Bill, 120, 121
- —, legal aspects of, 117–121
- —, resentment of townspeople, 117
- —, pumpers responsible for, 117
- Thompson (Prof. Jas.), his calculations, 92–96
- “Wallers,” derivation of name, 40
- “Walling Booke of Northwich” (Harleian MS. in British Museum containing earliest list of “wich-houses” and their owners), 48, 50, 51
- Ward (Thos.), lecturer on salt, 126
- “Wich,” derivation of the name, 33
- Wieliezka rock-salt at, 1
- —, works at, 20–26
- Winsford, output at, 53, 55
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