salt-spring

Cañon (named after the celebrated Elder, Parley Pratt); and as it looked like the residence of a well-to-do farmer, I went in, and asked for a bowl of bread and milk, -- the greatest possible luxury after a life of bacon and salt-spring water, such as we had been leading in the mountains.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

Blowers in the act of dodging through the woods with shovels and picks upon their shoulders, their object being to discover a salt-spring by the agency of the peek-stone.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Very large, shallow vessels were used to manufacture salt -- that is, they were filled from some salt-spring, and then the water was evaporated, leaving the salt.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

This sanctuary contained the holy olive tree sacred to Minerva, the holy salt-spring, the ancient wooden image of Pallas, etc., and was the scene of the oldest and most venerated ceremonies and recollections of the Athenians.

Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker

At Salinas, which is 14,000 feet above sea-level (one of the highest villages in the world outside Tibet), there was a salt-spring which was worked by the Indian villagers.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Surmising from its course that this stream must flow into the Ohio, they pushed on a hundred miles to the westward and finally, by following a buffalo path, reached a salt-spring in what is now Floyd County, in the extreme eastern section of Kentucky.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

Here Boone beheld great droves of buffalo that visited the salt-spring to drink the water or lick the brackish soil.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

There was in the neighborhood of the Lincoln home what was known in the West as a deer-lick -- that is, there existed a feeble salt-spring, which impregnated the soil in its vicinity or created little pools of brackish water -- and various kinds of animals, particularly deer, resorted there to satisfy their natural craving for salt by drinking from these or licking the moist earth.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History John George Nicolay 1866

A man, perhaps with a persuasion that he shall make his fortune by some singular means, and with an eager longing so to do, while digging or boring for water, to strike upon a salt-spring.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

There was in the neighborhood of the Lincoln home what was known in the West as a deer-lick ” that is, there existed a feeble salt-spring, which impregnated the soil in its vicinity or created little pools of brackish water ” and various kinds of animals, particularly deer, resorted there to satisfy their natural craving for salt by drinking from these or licking the moist earth.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904