Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History (Volume 10) - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1807. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Observations on the Native Salt, Bearded Indians, Earthquakes, and Boundaries of Louisiana: In a Letter from Capt. Amos Stoddard, of the United States Artillerists and Engineers, to Dr. Mitchill, dated New. London, Connecticut, June 2, 1806. SINCE my arrival here from Upper Louisiana, the " Medical Repository" has been put into my hands, in which I find frequent mention of the native salt found in that country. The accounts of this valuable article already published, appear to me to be erroneous and defective. Although I have taken great pains to collect information on this subject, yet I dare not be responsible for the correctness of it. The accounts afforded us by traders and others, little qualified to judge of matters of this kind, are so various, and in some instances so contradictory, that it is extremely difficult to form an accurate conclusion; and the one I am about to give must be received with the more caution, as the few notes I have taken on the subject are deposited at St. Louis with my baggage. Were I to attempt to prove the existence of a salt mountain, of the nature and dimensions described in some publications in the Repository, perhaps I should be charged with extreme credulity. This, however, is fully believed by many people on the Missisippi, though the evidence on the subject, when critically examined, appears to be too defective to authorize such a belief; and to this source must be attributed the many errors in circulation. But that there is a mountain of rock or mineral salt, of considerable extent, similar to those found in Spain, Moldavia, Gallicia, and in various other parts of the old world, cannot well be doubted; and the evidence I have of it, derived from four different sources, I will now proceed to state with as much brevi...
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