Though there are no salt _mines_ in the United States, there are salt _springs_ in several places. By far the most important and valuable of these, are in the neighborhood of Syracuse, in the state of New York. The land containing these springs, is owned by the state, and is leased free of rent, to be used only for the manufacture of salt. The wells are dug, and the water pumped up at the expense of the state, and the manufacturer pays a duty of one cent on each bushel he makes. Some of the wells are sunk to the depth of four hundred feet. Fine salt is prepared by boiling; and coarse by solar evaporation. In 1850, the number of salt manufactories in this vicinity was one hundred and ninety-two; and the quantity of salt produced in 1853, amounted to more than five million bushels. The salt of this region has been thoroughly tested, and found to be fully equal to any of foreign manufacture. ------------------------------------------- PHENOMENA OF THE OCEAN. ------------------------------------ “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.”—PSALMS. “With wonder mark the moving wilderness of waves, From pole to pole through boundless space diffused, Magnificently dreadful! where, at large, Leviathan, with each inferior name Of sea-born kinds, ten thousand thousand tribes, Find endless range for pasture and for sport. Adoring own The Hand Almighty, who in channeled bed Immeasurable sunk, and poured abroad, Fenced with eternal mounds, the fluid sphere; With every wind to waft large commerce on. Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds, And link in bonds of intercourse and love Earth’s universal family.”—MALLET.