Note 7 bis — Chapter X · SODIUM CHLORIDE—BERTHOLLET'S LAWS—HYDROCHLORIC ACID

In Western Europe, deposits of rock salt have long been known at Wieliczka, near Cracow, and at Cardona in Spain. In Russia the following deposits are known: (a) the vast masses of rock salt (3 square kilometres area and up to 140 metres thick) lying directly on the surface of the earth at Iletzky Zastchit, on the left bank of the river Ural, in the Government of Orenburg; (b) the Chingaksky deposit, 90 versts from the river Volga, in the Enotaeffsky district of the Government of Astrakhan; (c) the Kulepinsky (and other) deposits (whose thickness attains 150 metres), on the Araks, in the Government of Erivan in the Caucasus; (d) the Katchiezmansky deposit in the province of Kars; (e) the Krasnovodsky deposit in the Trans-Caspian province; and (f) the Bardymkulsky salt mines in Kokhand.