Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 968
without any waterother than that within their own bodies. In the center of one of the most lonesomeand dreary portions of this- desert there is acabin standing all alone. From a little dis-tance it seems to be made of blocks of roughstone, but if you will look at these blocksclosely you will find… … A CABIN MADE OF PIECES OF ROCK-SALT. Break off a piece and touch it to the tongue,for a taste may tell what you wish to know.You find that there is a taste, and that it is ofsalt. The cabin is made of pieces of salt —rock-salt, we call it, because it is quarried insolid pieces like rock. The walls,…
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