glauber

_Lime_ or _baryta_ and its compounds demand a solution of glauber salts or of sulphuric acid.

American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

On the fourteenth, we passed a small lake, highly impregnated with glauber salts, the efflorescence of which, covers the margin of the lake to the depth of several inches, and appears at a distance like snow.

Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

The soil of this immense region is strongly impregnated with sulphur, copperas, alum, and glauber salts; its various earths impart a deep tinge to the streams which drain it, and these, with the crumbling of the banks along the Missouri, give to the waters of that river much of the coloring matter with which they are clouded.

Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836

The soil of this immense region is strongly impregnated with sulphur, copperas, alum, and glauber salts; its various earths impart a deep tinge to the streams which drain it, and these, with the crumbling of the banks along the Missouri, give to the waters of that river much of the coloring matter with which they are clouded.

Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821

We shall now put into each of the glasses a little glauber salt, or sulphat of soda,

Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments 1813

The mineral appearances of salts, coal, and sulphur, with the burnt hill and pumicestone continue, and a bituminous water about the colour of strong lye, with the taste of glauber salts and a slight tincture of allum.

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. William Clark 1804

From the Mandan villages to this place the country is hilly and irregular, with the same appearance of glauber salts and carbonated wood, the low grounds smooth, sandy, and partially covered with cottonwood and small ash; at some distance back there are extensive plains of a good soil, but without timber or water.

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. William Clark 1804

I have often thought that this plant would make very handsome edgings to the borders and walks of a garden; it is quite as handsom as box, and would be much more easily propegated. - the appearance of the glauber salts and Carbonated wood still continue.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

The other manufactories are, 15 for earthenware; six for chocolate; four for mustard: three for cut-nails, and one for patent-nails; one for steel; one for aqua-fortis; one for sal-amnioniac and glauber-salts; one for oil colours; 1 1 for brushes; two for buttons; one for Morocco leather, and one for parchment; besides gun-makers, copper - smiths, hatters, tin plate-workers, coachmakers, cabinet-makers, and a variety of others.

The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies : containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo...with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information 1812

The country around is much the same as that we passed yesterday: on the sides of the hills, and even on the banks of the rivers, as well as on the sandbars, is a white substance which appears in considerable quantities on the surface of the earth, and tastes like a mixture of common salt with glauber salts: many of the streams which come from the foot of the hills, are so strongly impregnated with this substance, that the water has an unpleasant taste and a purgative effect.

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. William Clark 1804