m SAL 
-Mars. There were two companies or colleges of the Salii; 
the ancient, established by Numa, called Palatina; the latter, 
by Tullus Hostilius, called Collini and Agonales. Though 
Servius tells us there were two kinds instituted by Numa, the 
Collini and Quirinales; and two others, by Tullus, the 
Pavorii and Palorii. 
In singing, they used a peculiar ancient song, called 
Sa Hare Carmen; and after the ceremony they were enter¬ 
tained with a feast; whence Saliares Epulce, and Saliares 
Dapes, passed into a proverb for good eating. 
Their chief, called prccsul, and magister Saliorum, was 
one of their, number. It was he that led the band, and began 
the dance; the rest imitating all his steps and motions. The 
whole company was called Collegium Saliorum. 
Sext. Pompeius makes mention of Salian maids, virgines 
Saliares, hired for the purpose, and joined with the Salii, 
wearing a kind of military garb, called paludamentum, with 
high round bonnets like the Salii, and like them performing 
sacrifices with the poutifices in the palaces of kings. 
. SALIM, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the 
Obi; 60 miles west of Sourgout. 
SALIMBENI (Ventura), was bom at Sienna, in 1557, 
and was instructed in the art of painting by his father Arch- 
angelo Salimbeni, a painter of considerable note in that city. 
He afterwards travelled through various parts of Italy to cul¬ 
tivate and improve his talents, by the study which the works 
of other and greater masters afforded him; and particularly 
attached himself to the Lombard school. At Rome he ap¬ 
plied his time to the study of the antique, and perfected him¬ 
self in design to a considerable degree of excellence. 
He had a ready invention, with much elegance and taste, 
but lacked expression. His colouring is agreeable and har¬ 
monious, and he had considerable skill in the management of 
tire chiaro-seuro. The principal testimonies of his art are 
preserved at Rome, Florence, Genoa, and his native city of 
Sienna; and his smaller works are not uncommon in this 
country. At Wilton, is one of much value, representing the 
descent of the Holy Ghost. This master is generally known 
in Italy under the name of Bevilagna; the cardinal Bonifacio 
Bevilagna, who was his patron, having given it to him. He 
died in 1613, aged 56. 
SALINA, or Salini, anciently Didyma, one of the 
Lipari islands, in the Tuscan sea, belonging to Naples. 
Though only 15 miles in circuit, it is, next to Lipari, 
the largest of the group. Like the rest of these islands, 
it is volcanic, but fertile and populous. Its products 
are olive-oil, wine, and fruit. It takes its name from a lake, 
or shallow maritime inlet, on its south-east coast, in which 
large quantities of salt are made by evaporation; 25 miles 
north-by-westof cape Bianco, in Sicily. 
SALINA, a post township and village of the United 
States, in Onondaga county, New York. Onondaga lake, 
and the principal salt springs and salt works of the state, are 
in this town. In 1810, these works produced 435,840 
bushels of salt. The village contained in 1812, 90 dwelling- 
houses, and about 80 houses for the manufacture of salt; 
36 miles south-south-east of Oswego, and 130 west of 
Albany. Population 1257.—The village of Liverpool, 
which had in 1812 about 80 houses, is 3 miles north of the 
village of Salina. 
SALINA, a township of the United States, in Randolph 
county, Illinois. 
SALINA, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Tunja. It is also the name of another settlement in Quito. 
SALINA, a large lake of the island of St. Christopher, 
in the West Indies. 
SALINA, a large lake of the island of Martinique.—It is 
also the name of two other lakes in Guadaloupe, and one in 
St. Domingo : also of another in the province and govern¬ 
ment of Buenos Ayres. 
SALINA, a bay of Peru, on the coast of the province of 
Chancay. 
SALINA, a point of land on the south coast of the 
island of St. Domingo, between the bay of Ocoa and the 
point of Nizao. 
SAL 
SALINA, a point of land on the north coast of the 
island of St. Domingo, with the surname of Pequena. 
SALINAS (Francis), a native of Burgos, in Spain, •was 
blind from his infancy, having, as he says, sucked in that 
calamity with the infected milk of his nurse. His parents, 
soon perceiving that the study of music might be pursued by 
him in spite of this misfortune, had him taught very early to 
sing, and play upon the organ. It was by mere accident that 
he acquired any knowledge in the learned languages; for 
while he was a boy, a young woman, celebrated for her 
knowledge in the Latin tongue, and who was going to take 
the veil, having a great desire to learn to play on the organ, 
came to his father’s house, and, in return for the lessons 
which she received from Salinas in music, taught him Latin. 
He was afterwards introduced in the king’s palace to Peter 
Sarmentus, archbishop of Compostella, who received and 
treated him very kindly, and who being soon after created a 
cardinal, carried Salinas with him to Rome. Here he had 
not only an opportunity of conversing with the learned, but 
of consulting ancient manuscripts, particularly those on 
music, in the Greek language, which have been since pub¬ 
lished by Meibomius and Dr. Wallis. In these studies he 
spent thirty years; when the death of his patrons, cardinal 
Carpensis, cardinal Burgos, and the viceroy of Naples, by 
whom, he says, he was more beloved than enriched, deter¬ 
mined him to return to Spain, to pass the remainder of his 
days in humble obscurity: but, on his arrival at Salamanca, 
he was appointed public professor of music, and read lec¬ 
tures in that university both on the theory and practice of 
the art. However, by his long study of Boethius, as well 
as the ancient Greek theorists, his doctrines seem to have 
been chiefly speculative, and confined to calculations of 
ratios, divisions of the monochord, systems of temperament, 
and the musical pedantry of the times, without bestowing 
a thought upon harmony, modulation, or even melody; 
except such as the ecclesiastical modes and species of octave 
supplied. 
However, the treatise upon music written by Salinas is not 
only scarce, but, on many accounts, valuable; as it is written 
with clearness by a practical musician, who satisfactorily 
explains several parts of ancient music, which, though of 
little use to the modern, will at least gratify the curious; and 
though he treats of sects and subtilties, concerning which the 
present students, either in the theory or practice of the art, 
are not much interested; yet this work entitled “ Francisci 
Salina Burgensis, abbatis Sancti Pancratii de Rocca Scalegna 
in regno Neapolitano, et in academia Salmanticensi Music® 
professoris, de Musica libri septem, in quibus ejus doctrina 
veritas tarn qua ad Ilarmoniam, quam qua ad Rhythmum 
pertinet, juxta sensus ac rationis indicium ostenditur, et 
demonstrate. Salamantica, 1577,” is the completest work 
on ancient music in existence. 
SALINAS, a small town of the north-east of Spain, in 
Guipuscoa; 18 miles north-east of Vittoria, and 32 south- 
south-west of St. Sebastian. Here is a very rich salt spring. 
SALINAS, a cape on the south coast of the island of 
Majorca. Lat. 39- 16. N. long 3.0. E. 
SALINAS, a settlement of Peru, in the province of 
Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Lat. 18. 0. S.—There are several 
other missionary settlements of the same name in South 
America, mostly inconsiderable. 
SALINAS, a river of the province of Venezuela, in the 
New Kingdom of Granada, which runs south, and enters the 
Gamalotal. 
SALINAS, a point of land on the coast of the Pacific 
ocean, and in the province of Choco, to the north of Cape 
Corientes. 
SALINAS, a point on the south-west coast of the island of 
St. Christopher.—2d. A point on the south-west coast of the 
island of Martinique.—3d. A point on the coast of the pro¬ 
vince of Pava, in Brazil.—4lh. A point in the kingdom of 
Quito, and province of Guayaquil, being the extremity of 
the west coast of the island of Puna. 
SALINAS, a bay on the south-west coast of the island of 
Martinique. 
SALINAS BAY, 
