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SALA'CIOUSLY, adv. Lecherously; lustfully. 
SALA'CITY, s. [salacitas, Lat. from salacious.] Lust; 
lechery.—Immoderate salacity and excess of venery, is sup¬ 
posed to shorten the lives of cocks. .Brown. 
SA'LAD, s. [salad. Germ.] Food of raw herbs. It has 
been always pronounced familiarly sallet .—I climbed into 
this garden to pick a salad, which is not amiss to cool a 
man’s stomach. Skakspeare .—Leaves eaten raw, are termed 
salad: if boiled, they become potherbs: and some of those 
plants which are potherbs in one family, are salad in another. 
Watts. 
SAL A DA, a bay and river on the coast of the Pacific 
ocean, in the province of Copiapo, and kingdom of Chili. 
Lat. 25. 40. S. 
SALADA, a small island in the West Indies. Lat. 10. 
58. N. long. 64. 13. W. 
SALADIA BAY, a bay on the east coast of Dominica; 
1 mile south of Pagua point. 
SALADILLO, a river in the province and government 
of Buenos Ayres, which rises in vast plains in the interior, 
and running to the south-east, falls into the sea near the 
mouth of the river Plata, on the southern side. The Sala- 
dillo runs very low for the greatest part of the year. At a 
place called Callighon, twenty miles from its mouth, where 
it is very broad, it scarcely reaches the ancles; and at its 
mouth it would be impossible for the smallest boat, if laden, 
to enter. Yet, in the beginning of October, it swells pro¬ 
digiously, rises above its banks, and is, in the place just 
mentioned, nearly nine feet deep. The flood generally 
lasts two or three months. There are many trees on its 
banks. 
SALADILLO, a river of the province of Buenos Ayres, 
and a branch of the river Salado. 
SALADILLO, a river of South America, in the province 
of Tucuman, which runs east, and enters the Tercero. 
SALADIN. See Salaheddin. 
SALADINE, a tax imposed in England and France, in 
the year 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for 
the croisade undertaken by Richard I. of England, and 
Philip Augustus of France, against Saladin, sultan of Egypt, 
then going to besiege Jerusalem. 
The Saladine tax was thus laid: that every person who 
did not enter himself a croisader, was obliged to pay a tenth 
of his yearly revenue, and of the value of all his moveables, 
except his wearing apparel, books, and arms. 
The Carthusians, Bemardines, and some other religious 
persons, w'ere exempted from the Saladine. 
Gibbon remarks that, when the necessity for this tax no 
longer existed, the church still clung to it as too lucrative to 
be abandoned; and thus arose the tything of ecclesiastical 
benefices for the benefit of the pope or other sovereigns. 
SALADO, a river of Peru, which falls into the Pacific 
ocean, Lat. 22. 27. S. 
SALADO, an abundant river of South America, in the 
province of Tucuman, which has its rise from many streams 
flowing down the western declivity of the Andes, in Lat. 
24. S. This river derives its name from the salt with which 
its waters are impregnated, although -this quality is general 
to the rivers that passthrough Tucuman, from the Cordilleras 
of Atacama and Copiapo. The Salado is called, in the 
early part of its course, the Rio del Pasage; and is so rapid, 
as to render its navigation very dangerous. On arriving at 
the place where the town of Estero formerly stood, it 
changes its name into that of Rio de Valbuena; and from 
its source to this place, which is about one hundred and 
twenty miles, its waters are tinged of a blood colour, which 
disappears, by degrees, as it receives those of other rivers. 
This colour is attributed to the soil of the valley of Cal- 
chaqui, through which it flows. It is not called the Salado 
till it reaches the latitude of San Jago del. Estero. Its gene¬ 
ral direction is south-east; but before it joins the Parana, 
it runs a more southerly course for some distance. It is at 
Santa Fe, in Lat. 31. 40. S. that it mixes with the main river. 
SALADO, a river of Chili, which flows down the Cor¬ 
dillera, near the confines of Peru. Its waters are so salt that 
they are not drinkable. Lat 26. 20. S. 
SALADO, a river of Mexico, which enters the Gila. 
SALADO, a river of Peru, in the province of Atacama, 
which runs west, and enters the Pacific ocean. 
SALADO, a river of Peru, in the province of Chichas 
and Tarija, which runs east, and enters the Pilcomayo. 
SALADO, a small river of Paraguay, which enters the 
Paraguay, opposite the city of Ascension. 
SALADO, a river of the island of St. Domingo, 
which runs north-north-east, and enters the sea in the bay 
of Borroderos. 
SALADO, a river of St. Domingo, which runs south, and 
enters the sea. 
SALADO, a river of St. Domingo, near the north coast, 
which is small, and enters the sea in the bay of Barbacoa. 
SALADO, a river of St. Domingo, which enters the sea 
on the south coast. 
SALADO, a small river of Martinique, which enters the 
sea with a north-east course. 
SALADO DE ARJONA, and Salado de Porcunna, 
two rivers in the south of Spain, one of which falls into the 
bay of Cadiz, and the other into the Xenil, between Gra¬ 
nada and Ecija. 
SALAGNAC, a petty place in the central part of France, 
department of the Upper Vienne, on the Briance. Popula¬ 
tion 700. 
SALAGOSA, a small town of the south of France, 
department of the Eastern Pyrenees, arrondissement of 
Prades. 
SALAGRAMA, a stone found in a river of Nepaul, and 
considered by many sects of Hindoos as very sacred and 
mystical. It is an essential article in several of the super¬ 
stitious rites and ceremonies of the Brahmans: it is used in 
propitiatory oblations to Vishnu, as well as in funeral and 
other ceremonies. Many stones, especially those of a conical 
form, are deemed mystically sacred to Siva; but the sala- 
grama seems consecrated peculiarly to Vishnu. 
Mr. Colebroke informs us (As. Res. vol. vih), that the 
salagrams are found in part of the Gandaki river, within the 
limits of Nepaul. They are black, mostly round, and are 
commonly perforated in one or more places by worms, or, 
as the Hindoos believe, by Vishnu in the shape of a reptile. 
According to the number of perforations, and of spiral curves 
in each, the stone is supposed to contain Vishnu in various 
characters. For example, such a stone, perforated in one 
place only with four spiral curves in the perforation, and 
with marks fancied to resemble a cow’s foot, and a wreath of 
flowers, contains Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi, in that 
form or combination called Lakshmi-Narayana, a form in 
which they are commonly seen in images of a diminutive 
size, sitting on the knee of Vishnu or Narayana. The sala- 
grama is found not to be calcareous; it strikes fire on steel, 
and scarcely at all effervesces with acids. 
SALAGU A, a port on the west coast of Mexico, which 
has two good harbours, Las Calletas, or the Creeks, where 
many ships may ride. Between Saluga and the White Rock 
is the port of St. Tioga. Lat. 19. 4. N. 
SALAHEDDIN YUSEF EBN AYUB (usually called 
Saladin), a celebrated Sultan of Egypt and Syria, was born 
A. D. 1137, in the castle of Tecrit, of which his father, a 
Curd soldier of fortune, was governor. In his youth i he 
served under his father and his uncle Shiracouh, the latter 
of whom he was chosen, in 1168, to succeed in the com¬ 
mand of the Caliph’s armies. Before this time he had been 
much addicted to wine and gaming; but he now entirely 
reformed his conduct, and thenceforth rigorously observed 
the precepts'of the Koran. Looking to Noureddin as tire' 
source of his authority, be followed his intentions in re¬ 
pressing the sect of Ali. In 1171, by his order he put an 
end to the dynasty of the Fatimite caliphs in Egypt. The 
death of Adhed happening at the same time, Saladin took 
possession of his treasures, and though nominally holding 
the country under the Caliph of Bagdat, and in subordina¬ 
tion to Noureddin, he resolved to make him-elf independent 
of both. To this end, he ingratiated himself with the Egyp¬ 
tians by a mild and prudent government; and in order to 
wean them from the doctrine of Ali, he established colleges 
or 
