SAL 
SALINAS BAY, a bay on the coast of Peru; 60 miles 
north of Callao. Lat. 11. 12. S. 
SALINAS BAY, a large bay of the Pacific ocean, on the 
coast of Costa Rica. Lat. 10. N. long. 85. 36. W. 
SALINAS BAY, a bay on the coast of Brazil. Vessels 
come here for salt., Salinas Shoals lie to the north. Lat. 
5. S. long. 36. W. 
SALIN AS, Cape, a cape on the north coast of South 
America, Lat. 10. 40. N. long. 62.16. W. 
SALINAS, Cape, or de Salines. See Salines, Point 
DE. 
SALINA'TION, s. [ salinator, Lat. a salt-maker.] Act 
of washing with salt liquor. A bad word .—We read in 
Plutarch, that Phillippus Libertus washed the body of Pom- 
pey with salt water, which perhaps might be either because it 
was more abstersive, or that it helped to prevent putrefaction; 
and it is not improbable the Egyptians might have been ac¬ 
customed to wash the body with the same pickle they used 
in salination, — in order to preserving and embalming it. 
Green hill. 
SALINE, a parish of Scotland, in the western extremity 
of Fife; about 7 miles long from east to west, and 6 broad at 
the middle. Population 1072. 
SALINE, a village in the above parish, lying on the 
road from Dunferline to Auchterarder. It contains 200 
inhabitants. 
SALINE, a township of the United States, in Gallia 
county, Ohio. Population 262. 
SALINE, a river of the United States, in Illinois, which 
flows into the Ohio; 26 miles below the Wabash. It is 
navigable for boats 30 miles. The United States have ex¬ 
tensive salt-works on this river, 20 miles from its mouth by 
the river, but only 10 in a right line. Between 200,000 and 
300,000 bushels of salt are annually made at these works. 
It is sold at the works for from 50 to 100 cents, a bushel. 
They are 12 miles west of Shawneetown. 
SALINE, a river of the United States, in the north-west 
point of the state of Louisiana, which flows south, and 
unites with Black Lake river; 8 miles north-east of Natchi¬ 
toches. There are salt works on this river, about 25 miles 
north-north-east of Natchitoches. 
SALINE, a river of the United States, in the Missouri 
territory, which runs into the Ouachitta or Washita. Lat. 
33. 10. N. 
SALINE, or Salt, a river of the United States, in 
Louisiana, which runs into the Missouri; 173 miles west of 
the Mississippi. 
SALINE RIVER, a river of the United States, in Louisi¬ 
ana, which falls into the Republican fork, one of the tribu¬ 
tary streams of the Kanses river, and so designated by Captain 
Pike, who explored this part of the country in 1806, on ac¬ 
count of the saltness of its water, which was so great, that 
it salted sufficiently the meat which was boiled in it. 
SALI'NE, or Sali'nous, adj. \_salinus, Lat.] Con¬ 
sisting of salt; constituting salt.—We do not easily ascribe 
their induration to cold; but rather unto salinous spirits and 
concretive juices. Brown .—As the substance of coagulations 
is not merely saline, nothing dissolves them but what pene¬ 
trates and relaxes at the same time. Arbuthnot. 
SALINE-EARTHS, such earths as have a mixture of salt 
in their composition. This embraces nearly all earths. 
SALINE-MIXTURE, a mixture used in medicine; so 
called, because it is made with the salt called tartrite of 
soda. 
SALINELLO, a small river in the north of the kingdom 
of Naples, in the Abruzzo Ultra. It falls into the gulph of 
Venice. 
SALINES, a village of the United States, in the Missouri 
territory, on the west bank of the Mississippi; 4 miles below 
St. Genevieve. It is noted for salt-works. 
SALINES, Point de, or Point Salinas, a cape on 
the south coast of Hispaniola. Lat. 18. 8. N. long. 71. 
48. W. 
SALING, Great, a parish of England, in Essex ; 4| 
miles north-west of Braintree. 
SAL 571 
SALINO, a river in the north of the kingdom of Naples, 
in the Abruzzio Ultra. It falls into the gulf of Venice. 
SALINS, a considerable town in the east of France, in 
the department of the Jura, on the small river Furieuse. It 
is tolerably well built, and fortified and defended by two 
forts. Its population amounts to 8200. The culture of the 
vine is carried on in the vicinity, and a traffic takes place in 
the town, in wine and brandy; but the principal article of 
export is salt, obtained by boiling from the brine springs, 
from which the town takes its name. These works are ex¬ 
tensive, and engage the attention of most travellers. The 
Abbe d’Olivet, a well known critic and grammarian, was a 
native of this place; 22 miles south of Besaiujon. Lat. 46. 
57. N. long. 5. 56. E. 
SALIQUE. See Salic. 
SAL1SBURIA [a name adopted by Sir J. Smith in com¬ 
memoration of one Salisbury], in Botany, a genus of the 
class monoecia, order polyandria.—Generic Character. 
Male flowers. Calyx: ament naked, filiform. Corolla 
none. Stamina: filaments many. Anthers incumbent, 
deltoid; cells connected only at the top. Female flowers 
solitary. Calyx: perianth four-cleft, permanent. Corolla: 
none. Pistil: pericarp, drupe superior, globular. Seed. 
Nut triangular: nucleus oval, narrowed at the base.— 
Essential Character. Male ament. Anthers incumbent, 
deltoid. Female solitary. Calyx four cleft. Drupe, with 
a triangular shell. 
1. Salisburia adiantifolia.—Thislarge and not inelegant tree 
is cultivated in China and Japan. It has been long (upwards 
of eighty years) admired for its handsome fan-shaped leaves, 
cloven about half way from their summit; but they can by 
no means be termed two-lobed, that denomination requiring 
that the segments should be rounded. These leaves are also 
irregularly notched like those of the Zamiae, thickened at 
the margin, smooth, striated on each side with numerous 
parallel nerves. 
The fruit is a pale-brown drupe, of a globular form; the 
flesh or pulp hard and thick; the shell is thin, bony, oval, 
triangular, smooth, sharp at the top and one-celled; the seed 
or kernel solitary, filling the shell, having two coats, brown 
and membranous, one adhering to the shell, the other to the 
seed; albumen greenish-white, of the same form with the 
seed, like that of the almond; embryo yellow, inserted into 
the base of the albumen, straight, picotyledonous. The 
fruit is not produced till the tree arrives at a considerable 
age. 
SALISBURY, orNEwSARUM,an ancient city ofEngland, 
in the hundred of Underditch, and county of Wilts, is situated 
near the river Avon, at the distance of 83 miles west-south-west 
from London. It is divided, with respect to jurisdiction, 
and also by an inclosure wall, into two distinct portions; the 
City, properly so called, and the Liberty of the Close; the 
latter of which comprehends the cathedral, and buildings at¬ 
tached to it, and is subject exclusively to the authority of 
the bishop, and the dean and canons. The city is governed 
by a mayor and corporation, and comprises three parishes, 
viz., St. Edmund’s, St. Martin’s, and St. Thomas’s. 
Salisbury is one of the few cities or towns of ancient times, 
whose origin is precisely defined by authentic records. In¬ 
deed, we question if there is another city in Europe, the 
early history of which is so free from doubt and uncertainty. 
The nucleus, from whose attraction it sprung into existence, 
was its cathedral, which was founded in 1220, in conse¬ 
quence of a bull from pope Honorius to bishop Richard 
Poore, authorizing him to remove the seat of his diocese 
from Old Sarum, where the former cathedral church stood. 
The reasons assigned for this change were the lofty, exposed, 
and inconvenient position of the ancient city, and the circum¬ 
stance of its being a fortified post, garrisoned by military 
tenants, who not only frequently insulted the clergy in 
the exercise of their worship, but levied upon them contri¬ 
butions and exactions. The same causes had previously 
operated to induce many of the citizens to build in the 
valley ; so that no sooner was the new cathedral begun, than 
the anxiety to free themselves from the tyrannic controul 
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