The Commercial Products of the Sea; Or, Marine Contributions to Food, Industry And Art
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west 219.563 Salines or salt-pits 203,907 653,595 The quantity delivered for consumption, duty paid, was 315,549 tons; exported abroad, 109,633 tons; delivered free for various manufactures, 183,763 ; total, 608,945 tons. The tax on salt in France was raised to 12J francs the 100 kilogrammes by the law of the 2nd of June, 1875. On some of the coasts of the Channel, marine salt is obtained by a process quite different from that adopted in the salines. During low tide the sand of the beach is col...lected, washed with sea water, which gives a very con- centrated briny liquor, and this is evaporated to dryness Marine Salt. 343 in small boilers heated by wood. The saline mass thus obtained is placed in baskets, which are suspended over the boilers during the subsequent concentration. The salt, moistened by the aqueous vapour, gives up almost all its deliquescent salts. It is then stored, and only sent into commerce after some months' keeping. During this time it loses a further 28 or 30 per cent, of its weight.
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