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VIEW OF THE COMMERCIAL SALT COMPANY’S BRINE RESERVOIRS AT RODE HEATH, CHESHIRE,

Showing the Brine being pumped up from a depth of 250 feet

Frontispiece

PITMAN’S COMMON COMMODITIES
AND INDUSTRIES

SALT
AND THE
SALT INDUSTRY

BY
ALBERT F. CALVERT, F.C.S.
AUTHOR OF “SALT IN CHESHIRE”;
“THE SALT DEPOSITS OF THE WORLD”; ETC.

London
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1 Amen Corner, E.C.4
Bath, Melbourne and New York

Printed by Sir Isaac Pitman
& Sons, Ltd., London, Bath,
Melbourne and New York