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and convenient. Three of them are furnished with organs, 
and six with steeples or cupolas. The private houses have 
generally the appearance of neatness, convenience, and 
comfort; and many of them indicate taste and opulence. 
The town was formerly built almost entirely of wood, but 
a large proportion of the houses erected within the last 20 
years are of brick. 
The appearance of Salem is very irregular, the streets hav¬ 
ing been laid out with little regard to symmetry or beauty. 
In the northern part of the town there is an elegant com¬ 
mon, containing about ten acres, surrounded by a handsome 
public walk, which is planted with rows of trees. On a 
peninsula below the town there are two forts, Fort Pickering 
and Fort Lee, and on Baker’s island there is a light-house. 
Salem is, next to Plymouth, the oldest town in the state, 
and was settled in 1626. The inhabitants are chiefly em¬ 
ployed in trade and navigation. The shipping belonging 
to this port, in 1816, amounted to 34,454 tons. The East 
India trade has, for several years, been carried on here with 
great spirit and advantage, and it is to this branch of com¬ 
merce that the town is indebted for a great part of its wealth. 
The number of vessels employed at present in this trade 
amounts to 53, carrying 14,272 tons. A society composed 
of persons who have sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, 
or Cape Horn, styled the East India Marine Society, was 
incorporated in 1801; the object of which is to afford relief 
to indigent members or their families, to promote the know¬ 
ledge of navigation and trade to the East Indies, and to in¬ 
crease the museum. The museum belongs to this society, 
and is a very extensive and interesting cabinet of curiosities 
collected from all parts of the world, and is visited free of 
expense. Population 12,613; 14 miles north-north-east of 
Boston, 4~ north-west of Marblehead, and 24 south of New¬ 
bury Port. Lat. 52. 34. N. long. 70. 54. W. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Orleans 
county, Vermont, at the south end of Lake Memphremagog. 
Population 58. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Rockingham 
county, New Hampshire; 35 miles north of Boston. Po¬ 
pulation 1179. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Washington 
county. New York. The courts for the county are held al¬ 
ternately here and at Sandy Hill. Here is a handsome vil¬ 
lage, situated on an extensive plain, containing a court¬ 
house, a jail, an academy, and two churches. Two weekly 
newspapers are published here. Population 2833; 46 miles 
north-east of Albany. 
SALEM, a county of the United States, in New Jersey, 
bounded north by Gloucester county, east by Cumberland 
county, south-west and west by the Delaware. Popula¬ 
tion 12,761. 
SALEM, a post-town of the United States, in Salem 
county, New' Jersey, situated on Salem creek; 3| miles from 
Delaware bay. It contains about 200 houses, mostly of 
brick, a court-house, a jail, a market-house, an academy, 
and four houses of public worship; one for Episcopalians, 
one for Baptists, one for Friends, and one for Methodists. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Wayne 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 261. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Luzerne 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 530. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Westmore¬ 
land county, Pennsylvania. Population 1518. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Mercer 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 407. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Botetourt 
county, Virginia; 190 miles west-by-south of Richmond. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Fauquier 
county, Virginia. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Salem 
county, South Carolina. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Columbiana 
county, Ohio ; 9 miles north-north-west of Lisbon. Popu¬ 
lation 889. 
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SALEM, a township of the United States, in Livingston 
county, Kentucky. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Belmont 
county, Ohio. Population 376. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Champaign 
county, Ohio. Population 460. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Tuscarawas 
county, Ohio, on the Muskingum,. Population 442. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Jefferson 
county, Ohio. Population 912. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Washington 
county, Ohio. Population 248. 
SALEM, a township of the United States, in Ashtabula 
county, Ohio, in the north-east corner of the state, where 
are iron-works. 
SALEM, a post township of the United States, and capi¬ 
tal of Washington county, Indiana; 24 miles north-west of 
Jeffersonville. 
SALEM, a post township of the United States, in Stokes 
county, North Carolina, watered by a small branch of the 
Yadkin. It is a handsome Moravian town, built of brick, 
and chiefly on one street about a mileand a half long, paved 
and planted with rows of trees on each side. It contains a 
church, and has manufactures of potters’ ware, saddlery, 
gloves, hosiery, &c. Here is an excellent Moravian aca¬ 
demy for females, under the direction of a preceptor and 12 
matrons. There are belonging to the institution four brick 
buildings, four stories high, situated on a square in the 
centre of the town, planted with trees, and intersected with 
fine gravel walks; 34 miles north-east of Salisbury, and 100 
west of Raleigh. 
SALEM, a county of the United States, in South Caro¬ 
lina. 
SALEM, New, a township of the United States, in Huron 
county, Ohio, on the river Huron. 
SALEM, New, a township of the United States, in New 
London county, Connecticut. 
SALEM, New, a post township of the United States, in 
Jefferson county, Ohio. 
SALEM, New, a township of the United States, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Massachusetts. Here is a respectable academy. 
Population 1204: 80 miles west of Boston. 
SALEM, North, a township of the United States, in 
West Chester county. New York. Here is an academy. Po¬ 
pulation 2167: 53 miles north-north-east of New York. 
SALEM, South, a township of the United States, in 
West Chester county. New York. Population 1556: 50 
miles north-north-east of New York. 
SALEM, West, a township of the United States, in 
Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Population 660. 
SALEM CROSS ROADS, a post village of the United 
States, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. 
SALEMI, an inland town of the west of Sicily, delight¬ 
fully situated, nearly half way between the seas on the north 
and south sides of the island, on the great road leading south¬ 
ward from Castello Mare. It contains a population of up¬ 
wards of 8000, and has a number of churches and convents, 
but is in other respects a poor and backward place. It is 
supposed to occupy the site of the ancient Halicia; 38 miles 
south-west of Palermo. 
SALEMIA, a town of Nedsjed, in Arabia; 40 miles north 
of Jemama. 
SALEMIA, a town of Syria, in the pachalic of Tripoli, 
on the borders of the desert; 100 miles south-south-east of 
Aleppo. 
SALEN/E, of Ptolemy, a town of the isle of Albion, in 
the country of the Cattiveliauni, probably situated at Saludy, 
in Bedfordshire, where several Roman antiquities have been 
found. 
SALENCHES. See Salanche. 
SALENGORE, a district or kingdom, extending a con¬ 
siderable space along the western coast of the Malay penin¬ 
sula. It is governed by a Mahometan prince, who bears the 
title of Rajah. This being a genuine Malay state, the language 
is 
