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Salt extraction in Zeeland, ca. 1600
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Salt extraction in Zeeland according to the so-called darink digging, ca. 1600. Digging the darink from the land, drying and burning to ash, transport by boat to the salt kettle, mixing with seawater and boiling to white salt. After an old painting in Zierikzee. In the margin a three-line inscription in Dutch. Numbered top right: IV. D. Page 170. Subject headings within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Trade, Industry and Traffic, Profession and Business, Male, Turf making, darink digging, salt boiling, shell trade, glue making.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineZoutwinning in Zeeland, ca. 1600. 1750 - 1770. Jan Caspar Philips. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
