[3131] The process of artificial evaporation.
[3132] This would produce an impure alkaline salt. According to Townson, this practice still prevails in Transylvania and Moldavia.
[3133] “The water, evaporating, would leave the salt behind, but mixed with charcoal, ashes, earth, and alkaline salts; consequently it must have been moist, or at any rate nauseous, if not refined by a new solution.”—Beckmann’s Hist. Inv. Vol. II. p. 493. Bohn’s Ed.
[3134] Not improbably a people of India so called, and mentioned in B. vi. c. 20.
[3135] See B. ix. c. 42.
[3136] “In laterculis.” Hardouin considers this to mean small earthen vessels or pipes.
[3137] In c. 39 of this Book.
[3138] “Melanthium.” See B. xx. c. 17.
[3139] “Flos salis.” Further mentioned in c. 42.
[3140] See B. iv. c. 17.