SAL 
SALOO'P, s. [Turkish, salepi] Properly Salep, which 
see. * 
SALOPAR, a town of the island of Ceylon, belonging 
to the British, situated 18 miles north-north-west of Trin- 
Comalee. 
SALOR, a river of Spanish Estremadura, which falls-into 
the Tagus, nearly opposite to Rosmarinhal, on the Portuguese 
frontier. 
SALOU, Cape, a promontory in the north-east of Spain, 
in the south-east part of the coast of Catalonia. Lat. 41.4. 
30. N. long. 1.11. 50. E. 
SALOWACKI, a small island in the Eastern seas. Lat. 
3. 50. N. long. 131. 38. E. 
SALPA, in Zoology, a genus of the Vermes Mollusca 
class and order. The Generic Character is as follows:—the 
body is loose, nayant, gelatinous, tubular, and open at 
each extremity: the intestine is placed obliquely. The 
animals of this genus are of a gregarious nature, and often 
adhere together; they swim with great facility, and have the 
power of contracting or opening at pleasure the cavities 
at the extremities. There are eleven species, inhabitants, 
for the most part, of the Mediterranean, separated into 
two divisions, viz., those which are furnished With an ap¬ 
pendage; and those which are without the terminal ap¬ 
pendage. 
I.-—Furnished with an appendage. 
1. Salpa maxima.—The body of this species has a small 
appendage at each extremity. All the species in this divi¬ 
sion are inhabitants of the Mediterranean. The colour of 
the maxima is hyaline, with a blueish cast, about a span 
long, somewhat quadrangular, with a dull testaceous spot 
at the lower end; the lower appendage is subulate, the upper 
conic. 
2. Salta pinnata.—The Specific Character of this, is, that 
it has a terminal mouth; the back is marked with a yel¬ 
low and white line, and the abdomen has two reddish- 
white lines. The body is about two inches long, nearly 
triangular, hyaline, with an opaque line on the back; 
the appendage resembles a fin, excepting that it is rather 
triangular. 
3. Salpa democratica.—Body fasciate, and prickly behind. 
It inhabits the Mediterranean in large groups, and swim¬ 
ming confusedly in all directions; about an inch long. 
The body is oval, truncate before, and ending in about 
eight spines behind, with a blueish nucleus at the base, or a 
radiate circle. 
4. Salpa mucronata.—Mouth lateral; the front is marked 
with a hyaline spine placed on the right side, and another at 
the tail placed on the left side; the nucleus or spot behind is 
■oblong and blue. It is about an inch long, rather oblong 
and ovate, and pointed behind. 
II.—Without the terminal appendage. 
5. Salpa punctata.—Mouth nearly terminal; back dotted 
with red, and mucronate behind; the tail is projecting. 
This and the two following are natives of the Mediterranean. 
The body is an inch and half long; hyaline, with bands 
■scarcely visible on the abdomen; it has a nucleus or spot 
near the tail, opaque, and yellowish-ferruginous. 
6. Salpa confcederata.—The mouth of this species is 
terminal; and the back gibbous. The body is not more 
than an inch long; it is nearly quadrangular, hyaline, soft, 
with a globular nucleus behind the gibbosity of the back, 
is opaque, and of a reddish-brown, with a pellucid line pro¬ 
ceeding from it. 
7. Salpa fasciata.—This is ovate-oblong; the mouth is 
terminal; the abdomen fasciate; intestine filiform, incurved 
above the nucleus or spot. The body is an inch and half 
long, hyaline, with five bands on the abdomen; the spot is 
marginal, opaque, and ferruginous. 
8. Salpa sipho.—Sub-cylindrical, obtuse, hyaline, with 
a reddish-brown spot: in the front are two small tubes, the 
tips of which are perforated and red. This is a native of 
the Red Sea. The body is not an inch long; it is 
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affixed by its base to stones or sponge; the spot is near the 
base, globular and opaque; the intestine is blueish-brown. 
9. Salpa Africana.—This species is sub-triangular trans¬ 
versely, with ten striae; the mouth is terminal; the base has 
a gibbosity, and three spots. It inhabits the northern shores 
of Africa, and is about an inch and a half long. The body 
is hyaline, the first spot is opaque, brown, and globular, the 
rest whitish and almost pellucid. 
10. Salpa solitaria.—This is hyaline, oval; the mouth is 
terminal, with a blue tube; the vent is lateral and blue. 
This is found in the Red Sea, adhering to weeds, grass, &c. 
It is less than the last, and the body depressed ; the spot near 
the middle at the base is globular, and of a pale reddish- 
brown. 
11. Salpa polycratica.—Mouth placed beneath the upper 
extremity; the front and tail truncate. It is found in the 
Mediterranean. The body is about an inch and half long; 
the abdomen is marked with five transverse bands; the 
nucleus is globular and brown. 
SALPERTON, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
4| miles north-west of North Leach. 
SALPI, a small town in the east part of the kingdom of 
Naples, in the Capitanata, near where the river Ofanto (the 
ancient Aufidus) falls into the Adriatic. In the neighbour¬ 
hood are some salt-works; 23 miles south of Manfredonia, 
and 92 east-north-east of Naples. 
SALPI'CON, s. A kind of farce put into holes cut in 
legs of beef, veal, or mutton. Bailey. 
SALPINGO-PHARYNGEUS, a name given to a slender 
bundle of muscular fibres in the pharynx. 
SALPINGO-STAPHYLINUS, is a name given by some 
of the older anatomists to the levator palati. 
SALPUGA, a name given by some of the Latin writers 
to the solipuga. 
SALSAFY, in Botany. See Tragopogon. 
SALSAMENTA'RIOUS, adj. [salsamentarius, Lat.] 
Belonging to salt things. Johnson. 
SALS AS, a fortress in the south of France, department of 
the Eastern Pyrenees; 9 miles north of Perpignan. It was 
built by the emperor Charles V. and belonged to Spain 
till 1639. 
SALSETTE, an island on the western coast of Hindostan, 
province of Aurangabad, formerly separated from Bombay 
by a strait 200 yards wide, across which, in the year 1805, a 
causeway was carried, which, although it has been of much 
advantage to the islands, is said to have injured the harbour. 
This island is 18 miles long by 14 broad, and is well adapted 
for the cultivation of sugar, cotton, hemp, indigo, &c.; but 
it has hitherto been kept in a state of nature, for the purpose 
of supplying Bombay with wood, charcoal, and sea-salt, of 
which there is a considerable manufactory. It has, however, 
been recently proposed to cultivate it, and to invite a co¬ 
lony of Chinese to settle there. Salsette is remarkably rich 
in mythological antiquities, and the remains of reservoirs, 
with flights of stone steps round them, and the ruins of 
temples, &c. indicate a former state of prosperity and 
extensive population. The most remarkable object, however, 
is the caverns at Kennere, which contain two colossal statues 
of Boodh. One of these caverns was converted by the 
Portuguese into a church. The first account we have of 
this island, is dated in 1330, and was written by a friar 
named Oderic. It was then governed by a Mahometan 
judge but subject to one of the Hindoo rajahs on the 
continent. It was taken possession of by the Portuguese in 
the 16th century, and from them by the Mahrattas in 1750. 
In 1773, during a rupture with the Mahrattas, it was occupied 
by the British troops, and has ever since remained in their 
possession. Its principal town is Tanna. 
SALSEY, one of the smaller Shetland islands. Lat. 59. 
53. N. long. 1. 41. W. 
SA'LSIFY, s. [Lat.] A plant.— Salsify, or the com¬ 
mon sort of goatsbeard, is of a very long oval figure, as if it 
Were cods all ovei; streaked, and engraven in the spaces be¬ 
tween the streaks, which are sharp pointed towards the end. 
Mortimer. 
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