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series of events in the annals of the Roman empire, from 
the landing of iEneas in Italy to the reign of Rodolphus II. 
Population returns in 1811, 8243 ; houses 1575 ; being an 
increase since 1801, of 575 inhabitants, and 41 houses; in 
1821 the population amounted to 8763; houses to 1680. 
Markets on Tuesday and Saturday; 21 miles north-east of 
Southampton, and 83 west-by-south of London. Lat. 51.4. 
N. long. 1. 47. W. 
SALISBURY, a post township of the United States, in 
Litchfield county, Connecticut, in the north-west corner of 
the state ; 24 miles north-west of Litchfield. 
SALISBURY, a township of the United States, in 
Herkimer county, New York, on the St. Lawrence. Popula¬ 
tion 1252. 
SALISBURY, a post village of the United States, in 
Blooming Grove, Orange county, New York. 
SALISBURY, a township of the United States, in Lan¬ 
caster county, Pennsylvania. Population 1841. 
SALISBURY, a post village of the United States, in Som¬ 
erset county, Pennsylvania. Population 40. 
SALISBURY, a township of the United States, in North¬ 
ampton county, Pennsylvania, on the Leigh. Population 
933. 
SALISBURY, a post town and port of entry of the United 
States, in Somerset county, Maryland, between the two prin¬ 
cipal branches of the Wicomico. It contains an Episcopal 
church, a methodist meeting-house, and about 100 houses, 
and has considerable trade in lumber; 15 miles east-south¬ 
east of Vienna. 
SALISBURY, a post town of the United States, and capi¬ 
tal of Rowan county. North Carolina. It contains a court¬ 
house, a jail, a bank, an academy, and a church. It is a 
flourishing town, and is situated in a very fertile country. 
Near this town there is a remarkable wall of stone, laid in 
cement, plastered on both sides, from 12 to 14 feet in height 
and 22 inches thick. The length of what has been disco¬ 
vered is about 300 feet. The top of the wall approaches 
within one foot of the surface of the ground. When built, 
by whom, and for what purpose, is unknown. A similarwall 
has, within afew years been discovered, about six miles from 
the first, from four to five feet high, and seven inches thick. 
Population 600; 34 miles south-west of Salem. 
SALISBURY, a township of the United States, in Gallia 
county, Ohio, on the Ohio. Population 460; 17 miles 
above Gallipolis. 
SALISBURY, a post township of the United States, in 
Addison county, Vermont; 44 miles south-west of Montpe¬ 
lier. Population 700. It has a manufactory of glass. 
SALISBURY, a post township of the United States, in 
Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, on the west side of 
the Merrimack ; 14 miles north-north-west of Concord, and 
77 north-north-west of Boston. Population 1913. 
SALISBURY, a post township of the United States, in 
Essex county, Massachusetts, on the north bank of the Mer¬ 
rimack. It contains two parishes, and has a pleasant and 
considerable village, on the north bank of the Merrimack, 
below the junction of Puwow river. Considerable business 
is done at this village in ship-building, and here is some 
trade in the fisheries. Population 2047; 36 miles north¬ 
east of Boston. 
SALISBURY CRAIG, a remarkable rock lying on the 
east side of the city of Edinburgh, being part of the hill of 
Arthur’s Seat. It is noted chiefly for its steep precipitous 
front of solid rock, which it presents on the west side to¬ 
wards the city, in the form of an amphitheatre, the summit 
of which is 550 feet in height. 
SALISBURY PLAIN, an extensive track of open coun¬ 
try in England, in the county of Wilts, situated near Salis¬ 
bury, and extending 25 miles east of Winchester, and 28 
west of Weymouth, being in some places from 35 to 40 
miles in breadth. That part which lies near the city is a 
chalky down like East Kent. The other parts are noted for 
feeding numerous and extensive flocks of sheep. By feeding 
the sheep on the land after it is turned up with the plough, 
it becomes fertile, and bears very good wheat and other 
grain. In this plain is the famous monument of Stonehenge, 
and also traces of many old Roman and British camps. 
Stonehenge consists of four ranges of enormous stones, placed 
one within the other, the two outermost being circular, and 
the inner oval. Some of the stones are reckoned to weigh 30 
or 40 tons. See Stonehenge. 
SALISBURY, Point, a cape on the west coast of North 
America, at which Stephens’s passage divides into two chan¬ 
nels. Lat. 58. 11. N. long. 226. 3. E. 
SALISBURY, Point, a cape on the coast of Massachu¬ 
setts, at the entrance of the Merrimack river, near Newbury 
Port. 
SALI'VA, s. [Latin.] Every thing that is spit up; but it 
more strictly signifies that juice which is separated by the 
glands of the mouth.—Not meeting with disturbance from 
the saliva, I the sooner extirpated them. Wiseman. 
SALI'VAL, or S.y'livary, adj. [from saliva, Latin.] 
Relating to spittle.—The woodpecker, and other birds that 
prey upon flies, which they catch with their tongue, in the 
room of the said glands have a couple of bags filled with a 
viscous humour, which, by small canals, like the salival, 
being brought into their mouths, they dip their tongues 
herein, and so with the help of this natural birdlime attack 
the prey. Grew. 
SALIVARY FISTULiE. See Surgery. 
SALIVAS, a numerous nation of Indians in the New 
Kingdom of Granada, and province of San Juan de los 
Llanos, between the rivers Meta and Casanare. 
To SA'LIVATE, v. a. [from saliva, Lat.] To purge by 
the salival glands.—She was prepossessed with the scandal of 
salivating, and went out of town. Wiseman. 
SALIVATION, s. A method of cure much practised of 
late in venereal, scrophulous, and other obstinate cases, by 
promoting a secretion of spittle. Quincy —Holding of ill - 
tasted things in the mouth will make a small salivation. 
Grew. 
SALFVOUS, adj. Consisting of spittle; having the nature 
of spittle.—There happeneth an elongation of the uvula, 
through the abundance of salivous humour flowing upon it. 
Wiseman. 
SALIX [a saliendo; from the quickness of its growth. 
Gr. Irea, nrat>a to tevui ; on the same account], in Botany, 
a genus of the class dioecia, order diandria, natural order of 
amentacese.—Generic Character. Male. Calyx : ament 
oblong, imbricate every way (constructed of an involucre 
from the bud), consisting of scales one-flowered, oblong, 
flat, spreading. Corolla: petals none. Nectary a gland 
cylindric, very small, truncate, melliferous, in the centre of 
the flower. Stamina: filaments two, straight, filiform, 
longer than the calyx. Anthers twin, four-celled. Female. 
Calyx: ament and scales as in the male. Corolla none. 
Pistil: germ ovate, attenuated into a style scarcely distinct, 
a little longer than the scales of the calyx. Stigmas two, 
bifid, erect. Pericarp: capsule ovate-subulate, one-celled, 
two-valved: valves revolute. Seeds numerous, ovate, very 
small, crowned with a simple hirsute pappus or down. In 
some species, the 'male flowers have three or five stamens of 
unequal length; three have them monadelphous, another as 
in the class syngenesia. Salix hermaphroditica is the only 
species known to us which has hermaphrodite two-stamened 
flowers. Salix purpurea and helix have only one stamen to 
the flowers.— Essential Character. Calyx ament com¬ 
posed of scales. Corolla none. Male nectary a melliferous 
gland. Female style bifid. Capsule one-celled, two-valved. 
Seeds downy. 
I.—Leaves smooth serrate. 
1. Salix hermaphroditica, or hermaphrodite willow.— 
Leaves serrate smooth, flowers hermaphrodite two-stamened. 
—This agrees with Salix pentandra in its smooth leaves, 
bluntly serrate with glands, convolute, commonly six from 
each bud, yellowish; and in having villose aments of the 
same size and habit.—It dots not seem to be known out of 
Sweden. 
2. Salix triandra, or long-leaved three stamened willow. 
—-Three-stamened, leaves linear-oblong serrate smooth, 
germs 
