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In 1714 young Charles Charleville accompanied an old trader from Crozat's colony on the gulf to the great salt-springs on the Cumberland, where a post for trading with the Shawanoes had already been established by the French. But the British were preparing to capture this trade as early as 1694, when Tonti warned Villermont that Carolinians were already established on a branch of the Ohio.
In the beginning the settlements gradually extended westward from the coast in irregular outline, the indentations taking form around such natural centers of attraction as areas of fertile soil, frontier posts, mines, salt-springs, and stretches of upland favorable for grazing.
An inhabitant of the Valais would no doubt be surprised at the summer being the season in which our fashionables resort to London, from the purer air of the country. The Valais abounds with vineyards, but the wines are by no means palatable to persons who have tasted those of more favoured countries. In the vicinity of Bex and Aigle are the only salt-springs in Switzerland.
In a letter written on the fourteenth of December, to Richard Henry Lee, then recently elected president of Congress, he urged the necessity of action by that body, and suggested that the western waters should be explored, the navigation of them fully ascertained, accurately laid down, and a perfect map made of the country; that in the sale of public lands, the United States should make a reservation of all mines, minerals, and salt-springs, for special sale; and that a medium price should be adopted for the western lands, sufficient to prevent a monopoly, but not to discourage actual settlers.
It is believed that these mines were worked in the first century; and many a grave has been opened in excavating which gave up bones and copper ornaments once belonging to Celtic salt-miners of the third and fourth centuries. Towers erected in the thirteenth century are still strongholds. The whole region, too, is full of salt-springs.
You will also have heard of iron-springs, sulphur-springs, and salt-springs, which come out of the earth, even if you have never tasted any of them, and the water of all these springs finds its way back at last to the sea. And now, can you understand why sea-water should taste salt and bitter? Every drop of water which flows from the earth to the sea carries something with it.
With whole sacks of this beautiful mineral within your reach, almost as cheap as sand, you cannot fancy the longing the absolute craving for it, which they feel who are for a period deprived of it. Even the wild animals will make long journeys in search of those salt-springs or, as they are called, "licks" which exist in many places in the wilderness of America.
With whole sacks of this beautiful mineral within your reach, almost as cheap as sand, you cannot fancy the longing the absolute craving for it, which they feel who are for a period deprived of it. Even the wild animals will make long journeys in search of those salt-springs or, as they are called, "licks" which exist in many places in the wilderness of America.
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