The History of Salt. Boddy Evan Martlett

ix. 45.

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2 Chronicles xiii. 5.

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Numbers xviii. 19.

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Ezekiel xvi. 4.

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Job v. 6.

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St. Mark ix. 50.

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Ibid.

28

Huxley’s “Physiography.”

29

Sir Robert Christison’s “Treatise on Poisons.”

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Sea-water contains 2·5 per cent. of the chloride of sodium; some say 4 per cent.; according to others, 5·7.

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It is well worth remembering that the Thames carries away from its basin above Kingston 548,230 tons of saline matter annually.