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VIEW OF THE COMMERCIAL SALT COMPANY’S BRINE RESERVOIRS AT RODE HEATH, CHESHIRE Frontispiece
ANCIENT SALT WORKS 13
ANCIENT SALT WORKS 19
WIELIEZKA SALT MINES 21
SLANICU, RUMANIA, INTERIOR OF SALT MINE 25
WIELIEZKA SALT MINES 29
SUBSIDENCE OF LAND, NORTHWICH 41
DUNKIRK SUBSIDENCE, NORTHWICH 49
THE CANAL-BURST AND LANDSLIP NEAR NORTHWICH IN 1907 59
A SALT STORE-SHED 67
WITTON BROOK, SUBMERGENCE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND 75
WORKING IN DANGEROUS GROUND AFTER SUBSIDENCE, DUNKIRK LAKE, NORTHWICH 81
STREET-RAISING IN PROGRESS—HIGH STREET, NORTHWICH 89
THIS ROAD WAS RAISED TWENTY FEET IN TWENTY YEARS. NONE OF THESE BUILDINGS IS NOW STANDING—NORTHWICH 93
INTERIOR PENNY’S LANE MINE, NORTHWICH 99
REMARKABLE SUBSIDENCE IN NORTHWICH 111
A ROW OF OPEN PANS 119
ILLUSTRATION OF FOUR SCOTT PATENT DOUBLE EFFECT SALT EVAPORATORS, WITH AUTOMATIC SALT DISCHARGERS, SALT CONVEYORS, AND HYDRO-EXTRACTORS 131
THE HODGKINSON PATENT SALT-MAKING PLANT 137