Which cattle resorted to for licking

"A Lick was the place to which cattle resorted to for licking the salt water. When the water did not appear and the ground was impregnated, the cattle would eat the clay and it was then called a clay lick. In many places the water appeared in insufficient quantities and the clay and suck licks were then combined as to Mann's, Bullit's, and the Mud Lick, where it could be seen that the clay had been eaten for a considerable distance around although small quantities of water could be sucked up in places where it had been most trampled...The Upper and Lower Blue Licks were the only two places where the water ran in a fresh spring. At these places where salt water was to be found it oozed out in very small quantities and collected in muddy pools where it was sucked from the tracks formed by the tramping of animals of the that resorted to them, the larger proportion of which were buffalo. From none of these licks did the water run off; and where it collected was where the cattle discovered it and gone in a tramped. The licks where salt was made at them were all dug as Manns', Bullit's, and Long's" (Draper MSS, James Wade Interview, 12cc11-41).

Draper, Lyman C. Draper Manuscript Collection: Series Cc; Kentucky Papers. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, Dept. of Photoreproduction, 1966. Archival material.