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Hope. It forms the most secure and convenient harbour in 
Southern Africa, and is capable of containing several large 
fleets. Unfortunately the coast is entirely destitute of water. 
Lat. 32. 54. S. long. 17. 60. E. 
SALDANNA, a town of the north-west of Spain, in the 
province of Leon, on the river Carrion. Population 4000; 
46 miles east of Leon, and 38 north-by-west of Palencia. 
Flax is raised in large quantities in the environs. 
SALE (George), a learned English Oriental scholar and 
various writer in the 18th century, was one of those valuable 
members of the republic of letters, concerning whom it is 
greatly to be regretted that scarcely any notices have been 
transmitted to posterity. At least, if any particular informa¬ 
tion concerning him is still in existence, it has escaped our 
researches. He was a married man, and had a son, who was 
.educated at New-college in the University of Oxford, of 
which he became fellow, and afterwards was elected to a 
fellowship in Winchester College. Our author was one of 
the founders and first committee of a society for the encou¬ 
ragement of learning, established in 1736, of which several 
noblemen, and some of the most eminent literary characters 
of the age were members. 
Mr. Sale was one of the authors of the great “ General 
Dictionary,” and had a considerable share in that translation 
.of the works of Bayle, which is incorporated with it. From 
a paper in the hand-writing of Mr. Swinton, one of the 
principal writers of the “ Universal History,” it appears that 
Mr. Sale contributed to that work the cosmogony, and a 
small part of the history immediately following the same. 
The most important of his productions, however, is “ The 
Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, trans¬ 
lated into English immediately from the original Arabic; 
with explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Com¬ 
mentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Discourse,” 
1734, 4to. This is a literal, and at the same time elegant, 
version of the sacred code of those numerous nations who 
follow the prophet of Mecca, enriched with notes abounding 
in entertainment as well as information. The preliminary 
discourse, which would prove an useful and interesting pub¬ 
lication in a separate volume, is divided into eight sections, 
of which the following are the subjects: 1. Of the Arabs 
before Mohammed; or, as they express it, in the Time of 
Ignorance; their History, Religion, Learning, and Customs. 
2. Of the State of Christianity, particularly of the Eastern 
Churches, and of Judaism at the Time of Mohammed’s Ap¬ 
pearance : and of the Methods taken by him for establishing 
his Religion, and the Circumstances which concurred thereto. 
3. Of the Koran itself, the Peculiarities of that Book; the 
Manner of its being written and published, and the general 
Design of it. 4. Of the Doctrines and positive Precepts of 
the Koran, which relate to Faith and religious Duties. 5. 
Of certain negative Precepts in the Koran. 6. Of the Insti¬ 
tutions of the Koran in Civil Affairs. 7. Of the Months 
commanded by the Koran to be kept sacred; and of the 
.setting apart of Friday for the especial Service of God. 8. 
Of the principal Sects among the Mahommedans; and of 
those who have pretended to prophecy among the Arabs, in 
or since the Time of Mohammed. Gentleman's Mag. for 
1736 and 1781. Murphy's Life of Johnson. 
SALE, s. [Icel. sal, venditio; M. Goth, saljan. Sax. 
pyllan, dare, tradere; Icel. selia, transmittere, vendere. Scre¬ 
ams.~\ The act of selling.—Vent; power of selling; market. 
—Nothing doth more enrich any country than many towns; 
for the countrymen will be more industrious in tillage and 
rearing of all husbandry commodities, knowing that they 
•shall have ready sale for them at those towns. Spenser .— 
A public and proclaimed exposition of goods to the market; 
auction. Those that won the plate, and those thus sold, 
ought to be marked, so as they may never return to the 
race, or to the sale.. Temple. —State of being venal; 
price.—The other is not a thing for sale, and only the gift 
of the gods. Shakspeare. —It seems in Spenser to signify 
a wicker basket; perhaps from sallow, in which fish are 
caught. 
To make baskets of bulrushes was my wont; 
Who to entrap the fish in winding sale 
Was better seen ? Spenser, 
SALE, or Sall, a parish of England, in Norfolk; two 
miles from Reepham. 
SALE, a township of England, in Cheshire; 6§ miles 
west-by-north of Stockport. Population 901. 
SALE, a small river of Guadaloupe, which runs south¬ 
west into the sea. 
SA'LEABLE, adj. Vendible; fit for sale; marketable.— 
I can impute this general enlargement of saleable things to 
no cause sooner than the Cornishman’s want of vent and 
money. Carew. —This vent is made quicker or slower, as 
greater or less quantity of any saleable commodity are 
removed out of the course of trade. Locke. 
SA'LEABLENESS, s. The state of being saleable. 
SA'LEABLY, adv. In a saleable manner. 
SALEBRO'SITY, s. [salebrosus, Lat.] A rugged path. 
-—Nature rises to sovereignty, and there is a blaze of honour 
gilding the briers, and inciting the mind ; yet it is not without 
its thorns and salebrosity. Felt ham. 
SA'LEBROUS, adj. [salebrosus, Lat.] Rough; uneven ; 
rugged. 
We now again proceed 
Thorough a vale that’s salebrous indeed ; 
-bruising our flesh and bones; 
To thrust betwixt massy and pointed stones. Cotton. 
SALEBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire, near 
Alford. 
SALECK, a village of the west of Germany, in Franco- 
nia; 1 mile south-west of Hammelburg. 
SALECTO, a small sea-port of Tunis, in Africa, the 
Sullecti of the middle ages, and where there are the remains 
of a large castle, anciently called Turris Hannibalis; 90 
miles from Tunis. 
SALEFUR, an old name for Saffron. 
SALEHURST, a parish of England, in Sussex; 1 mile 
north-east of Robert’s Bridge. Population 1653. 
SALEM, a district of the south of India, province of the 
Carnatic, forming part of the Barramaul district. It is very 
fertile and productive. Its principal town is Salem. 
SALEM, the capital of the above mentioned district. It 
was taken by the British in 1768, but was afterwards re¬ 
linquished; and at the peace of Seringapatam, in 1792, it 
was transferred, with the district, to the British, and is now 
the residence of the judge, collector, &c. Lat. 11. 44. N. 
long. 78. 18. E. 
SALEM, a village of Kerman, in Persia; 115 miles north¬ 
east of Kerman. 
SALEM, a sea-port town of the United States, and ca¬ 
pital of Essex county, Massachusetts. It is chiefly built on 
a tongue of land, formed by two inlets from the sea, called 
North and South rivers; over the former of which is a bridge, 
upwards of 1500 feet long, connecting Salem with Beverly, 
and the latter forms the harbour. The harbour has good an¬ 
chorage, but the water is so shallow, that vessels drawing 
more than 12 or 14 feet, must unload, in part, at a distance 
from the wharfs. The situation of Salem is low, but plea¬ 
sant and healthy. It is well built, and with regard to po¬ 
pulation, wealth, and commerce, is the second town in 
New England. It contains a court-house, a jail, an alms¬ 
house, a market-house, three banks, four insurance-offices, 
a custom-house, a grammar-school, an orphan asylum, a 
bank for savings, a museum, an athenseum containing up¬ 
wards of 5000 volumes well selected, and 11 houses of pub¬ 
lic worship, six for Congregationalists, two for Baptists, 
one for Episcopalians, one for Friends, and one for Univer- 
salists. It has numerous public and private schools, which 
are well supported. None of the public buildings are re¬ 
markably splendid. The court-house, the market-house, the 
alms-house, the custom-house, and the grammar-school 
house, all of brick, and the jail of stone, are spacious, 
handsome, and commodious. The churches are. large, neat. 
