India Salt. Scinde Versus Cheshire, Calcutta, and Bombay |
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India Salt: Scinde Versus Cheshire, Calcutta, and Bombay (1847) James Henry Burke No preview available - 2008 |
India Salt: Scinde Versus Cheshire, Calcutta, and Bombay James Henry Burke,Jane Alice Sargant No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 26 - It is just the same as the salt obtained by evaporating sea- water, — the salt that is called Bay Salt : it is not so pure as rock salt, because it contains a little sulphate of soda, very little and of no consequence and also some muriate of magnesia, which later renders it a little bitter, but it can readily be removed by washing the salt in fresh-water : but as it is, I have no doubt, it would find a ready market, for it is very much cleaner than what is made in the Government salt pans about...
Page 8 - This bed was discovered by Lt. Burke, RE, Executive Engineer, PWD, Sind Division, in 1847, while travelling from Sind to Kutch. In a letter, dated 7th March 1847, to Major Peat, Superintending Engineer, Sind, he described the bed as follows : — " For the first few yards, it appears as a ridgy layer with bunches and is but a few inches in thickness ; but the thickness rapidly increases, and the structure is so hard and crystalline that it required some little time and labour to detach the smallest...
Page 9 - ... with the only available tool I had with me, viz., a strong hunting knife. The hoofs of a horse made no impression on its surface. This was a sandy colour, owing to the presence of a very slight film of drift dust or sand, which has been absorbed by the deliquescent quality of the salt. Crystallised knobs or bunches, of the same exterior colour as the general bed, occasionally rose about the surface and a few of these, having been recently detached, showed the dazzling and highly crystallised...
Page 5 - I have the honour to bring to your notice the following facts as revealed by that examination.
Page 8 - ... few yards, it appears as a ridgy layer with bunches and is but a few inches in thickness ; but the thickness rapidly increases, and the structure is so hard and crystalline that it required some little time and labour to detach the smallest fragment with the only available tool I had with me, viz., a strong hunting knife. The hoofs of a horse made no impression on its surface. This was a sandy colour, owing to the presence of a very slight film of drift dust or sand, which has been absorbed by...
Page 9 - ... but the thickness rapidly increases, and the structure is so hard and crystalline that it required some little time and labour to detach the smallest fragment with the only available tool I had with me, viz., a strong hunting knife. The hoofs of a horse made no impression on its surface. This was a sandy colour, owing to the presence of a very slight film of drift dust or sand, which has been absorbed by the deliquescent quality of the salt. Crystallised knobs or bunches, of the same exterior...
Page 12 - No more is heard in recent years about this precious deposit, which in the opinion of its discoverer : " Would supply a population of one hundred millions for one thousand six hundred and sixty-two years, at an annual allowance of 20 Ibs. per head." (2) Fuller's Earth. — There are intercalations of this clay in limestone on the slopes of the Ganjo Hills, near Hyderabad, and also in the hills near Sukkur-Rohri, Jerruck and Tatta. It is a pale greenish clay used for washing cloth, etc. , and...
Page 22 - Scinde salt meeting with a ready and a profitable market at Calcutta, compared both with that of the produce of Cheshire and that of Bengal manufacture. Cheshire salt can, I understand, be shipped at Liverpool for twelve shillings a ton.
Page 26 - It is not so pure as rock-salt, because k contains a little sulphate of soda— very little, and of no consequence — and also some muriate of magnesia ; which latter renders it a little bitter : but it can readily be removed by washing the salt in fresh water.
Page 25 - Indus to amount to these four shillings and odd pence per ton, the foregoing table and its deduced results will show, that whenever the charges for freight, insurance, &c., from the mouths of the Indus to Calcutta, shall not exceed forty shillings a ton, that salt could be profitably exported to Calcutta.