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In these cases it is first dissolved in water, to separate it from such impurities, and then evaporated back again into salt, precisely as we are doing now. "`What colour is the salt-rock, papa? "`When pure it is white; but it assumes various colours, according to what substances may be found mixed with it. It is often yellow, and flesh-coloured, and blue.
Then the whale, to please them, turned about and went toward the Salt-rock, where he left them; and they got put on shore by the first fishing-boat that passed. Thereupon they returned to their own country, safe and sound and rich, to the great joy and consolation of their mother and father. And, thanks to the goodness of Cianna, they enjoyed a happy life, verifying the old saying
"`How pretty it must be! exclaimed Harry; `like precious stones, I declare. "`Yes, it is a precious stone, rejoined his brother; `more precious, I take it, than all the diamonds in the world. Is it not, papa? "`You are quite right, I replied. `Salt-rock is more valuable to the human race than diamonds; though they, too, have an absolute value, besides their value as a mere ornament.
Descending a flight of steps after shooting the third shaft, we came upon a scene which filled us with wonder. There, far down in the earth, lay a tiny tranquil lake of inky blackness, its borders outlined with blazing torches. On the pink salt-rock roof the miners call it der Himmel rested the fearful weight of the superincumbent mountain.
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