The whole region was, by consequence, peculiarly favoured; and to that circumstance it was to be ascribed, that the river and the adjacent woods teemed with quantities of salt, not, as in other places, a concretion on the sea-shore, formed by the foaming of the waves, but produced by the simple act of throwing the water from the stream on a pile of burning wood, where, by the conflict of opposite elements, the substance was engendered. For this salt a bloody battle was fought.
Hortik zetorren ustea, ibai eta oihan haietan, gatza jainkoen onberatasunaren emaitza zela, ez, beste herrietan bezala, paduren ebaporazioz, kristaldurik baizik, ura zuhaitzekin eginiko sutera isurita, elkarren aurkako elementu diren su-uren bitartez.