ABSTRACT
THE varied and unusual means employed among the northern people for the decoction of salt I shall set out in the descriptions that follow. When the Norwegians who live on the shore of the Ocean are going to boil down salt, they split and hollow out immensely long pines or fir trees. Of these they lash together again a sufficient number with very strong ropes, as if with hoops, tie stones to them and sink them in the sea, leaving apertures at the very ends of the trees so that the saltier water may enter.
