a liquid something, aliquid ipsius
until a residuum of dry salt remains, which is taken up in wicker baskets;
a liquid, something of the appearance of oil, runs from it,
which the people call salt droppings, and
esteem a good remedy for rheumatic complaints and sprains ₁
she is at least aliquid ipsius, a something of that
that very same, tho not the same it self
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sources
- Number 17. Parish of Ruthwell. (Presbytery of Annan. — County and Synod of Dumfries.)
By the Reverend Mr. John Craig. in The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes. By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. Volume Tenth. (Edinburgh, 1794) : 218-228 (222) : linkfull passage :
Manufactures, Fisheries, &c. — No species of manufacture in the linen or woolen branches are carried on in this parish; but, in the summer season, the people upon the sea coast employ themselves in making a kind of coarse salt, which answers the common uses tolerably well. They practise the following method: When the tides have risen very high, and covered the sands for three or four days, a white crust is left upon the sand, from which all the fresh water particles are exhaled by the heat of the sun during the neap tides, and the remanent substance appears to the eye like pounded crystal. This crust is pared off by a machine formed like a roller, only the moveable part of the roller is here immoveable, and has projecting from it, about half an inch longitudinally, a piece of thin iron, which scrapes up the crust into heaps, together with a portion of the sand. The whole is carried off
in
[ 222 ] in carts to the shore, and piled up in one heap. When a sufficient quantity has been collected, the people dig a little square pit in the ground, at one end whereof they form, with tough strong clay raised a foot above the surface, a bason 18 feet long, 3 in width, and 3 deep, which rises, from the mouth of the little pit, in a gentle ascent to the further end; the bottom of the bason is laid with square white coloured peats, and above these, clean turf sods cut from the merse with the green sides up, are placed, joined as close as possible to one another and to the sides of the bason. After thus preparing the bason, a layer about a foot and a half thick, taken from the heap of sand formerly laid up, is placed above the sods, and sea water being poured upon it, filtrates through the whole mass, and, when it comes to the lower end of the bason, runs off by a small tube into the pit or reservoir. When the saline particles of the sand in the bason are by this means carried off, it is removed, and new sand put in, which is managed in the same manner. The proper strength of the liquor in the reservoir is ascertained by its carrying an egg; and when this happens, it is boiled in lead or iron pans until a residuum of dry salt remains, which is taken up in wicker baskets; a liquid, something of the appearance of oil, runs from it, which the people call salt droppings, and esteem a good remedy for rheumatic complaints and sprains. The salt thus made is neither so white, nor so strong as that from the salt pans. A measure of it weighing about 24 lb. is sold for a shilling; and, in consequence of an exemption or grant by one of the kings of Scotland, no duty is paid for it; notwithstanding which, the tenants on the shore who practise this manufacture are supposed to be no considerable gainers.—
John Sinclair (1754-1835), “politician, military officer and writer... one of the first people to use the word ‘statistics’ in the English language in his pioneering work, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, which was published in 21 volumes.”
wikipedia : linkJohn Craig (1737-1798)
on whom not much, save for geni.com
but see
Henry Duncan FRSE (1774-1846, Scottish minister, geologist and social reformer, whose first wife Agnes Craig was daughter of John Craig, Duncan’s predecessor, in his life-long role as Minister at Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire.
wikipedia : link - on St. Luke, 14. 20., in
Owen Felltham, his Resolves : Divine, Moral, Political. With several new additions both in prose and verse, not extant in the former impressions. In this Eleventh Edition, references are made to the poetical citations, heretofore much wanted. (London, 1696) : 323-324 : linktranscribed, &c., further, at : 2724