Is this anything like the ammonia and laundry bluin' we used to pour over
coal and watch it grow?  My Grandma did that for us when we were kids and I
did it for my kids, the neighbor kids' parents thought I was STRANGE.  No
comments from the peanut gallery on that.  Ruth


At 8:29 AM -0400 3/24/10, [log in to unmask] wrote:
The 19th century coastal forts have the best effloresence ; the magazines
are sometimes oval but always  arched and below the grade of the coastal
guns ;Bernard (Napoleons engineer hired after the brits burned washington)
had them covered with copper sheating and placed a french drain between
each one before piling masses of dirt on top .
The salts there are easily six inches deep and only form up to about the
8ft level when the magazines are easily 12ft inside ; They stay
continiously wet and humid the year round ;and if I remember correctly its
only when salts are allowed to dry then wet then dry that they expand and
destroy the brick face ; if Celenni made the best salt celler then Bernard
was not far behind  /Py
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