Salt-makers, conservatism of, 18 Salt-making, methods of, 125–129 --, methods employed in America, 127, 135 --, processes of, 127 --, vacuum system, 135, _et seqq._ Salt-Market, the, 142–147 --, mines, collapse of, various dates, 103, 107, 108 Salt-pans, recovery of old, 39 Salt-trade, competition in, 144, 145 Salt Union, 54 -- --, alleged rights of, 123, 124 -- --, “Battle of the Brine,” 121 -- --, brine carrying by, 122, 123 -- --, large capital of, 145 -- --, newspaper comments, 146–147 -- --, opposition to new processes by, 142 -- --, Wharton Works, 79–81 Subsidences, 97–123 --, causes of, 108–112 --, described 113 --, damage to property, 115, 116 --, Compensation Bill, 120, 121 --, legal aspects of, 117–121 --, resentment of townspeople, 117 --, pumpers responsible for, 117 Thompson (Prof. Jas.), his calculations, 92–96 “Wallers,” derivation of name, 40 “Walling Booke of Northwich” (Harleian MS. in British Museum containing earliest list of “wich-houses” and their owners), 48, 50, 51 Ward (Thos.), lecturer on salt, 126 “Wich,” derivation of the name, 33 Wieliezka rock-salt at, 1 --, works at, 20–26 Winsford, output at, 53, 55 THE END _Printed by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., Bath, England_ Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Archaic spellings were retained. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations. The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.