LAKE-SALT. 827 Uses. Its uses are very various and important. We employ it daily as a seasoning for our food : vast quantities are employed for the preservation of animal flesh, butter, &c.; it is also used as a manure, in the manufacture of earthen ware, soap-making, and in many metallurgic operations. It affords muriatic acid and soda, by certain chemical processes. It is sometimes employed in its crude state, but is more commonly purified. Second Subspecies. Lake-Salt. Seesalz, Werner. ' Seesalz, Tteuss, b. iii. s. 36. External Characters. Its colour is white. Internally it is shining or glistening, and intermediate between vitreous and resinous. It occurs either in thin plates, which are formed on the surface of salt lakes or inland seas, or in grains on their bottoms. It is translucent. Geognostic and Geographic Situations. It is found on the bottoms and sides of salt-lakes. Europe.—It is collected in the islands of Cyprus and Milo, in the Mediterranean sea. Nearly the half of the X 4 peninsula
