SAL 
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26. Salsola didyma, or twin-fruited saltwort.—Stem her- 
• baceous, decumbent, leaves oblong, unarmed, capsules two- 
lobed, two-seeded. Stem two feet long, diffused, rough. 
Leaves blunt, smooth, opposite. Flowers axillary, glomerate, 
sub-sessile.—Native of the island of Mozambique, in Africa. 
27. Salsola echinus, or thorny salt wort.—Shrubby smooth, 
leaves subulate, awnless, spines divaricate, flowering. This 
is a shrub, a foot in height, very much and closely branched. 
—Native of the higher mountains of Libanus. 
28. Salsola camphorosmoides, or camphorosma-leaved 
saltwort.^—Shrubby, smooth, leaves filiform, with axillary 
bundles. Stems upright, very much branched: branches 
panicled, spiny; spines like needles—Native of Barbary, 
near Tlemsen, in fallow fields. 
29. Salsola brevifolia, or short-leaved saltwort.—Shrubby, 
very much branched, leaves ovate, clustered, very short, 
pubescent. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, numerous.— 
Found near Cassa, in Barbary, in sands; also in Sicily. 
30. Salsola mollis, or soft-leaved saltwort.—Shrubby, 
branches spreading, leaves round, fleshy, glaucous, obtuse. 
Upright, very much branched.—Found with the preceding. 
31. Salsola oppositifolia, or opposite-leaved saltwort.— 
Shrubby, leaves subulate, unarmed, opposite. Branches op¬ 
posite, upright. Flowers axillary, solitary, two or three 
together, sessile. Bractes three, awl-shaped, small; the lower 
larger. Calyx small. Styles two. This is a very hand¬ 
some species.—Native of Tunis, in Africa; also of Spain and 
Sicily. 
Propagation and Culture. —All the annual sorts may be 
propagated by seed. 
* In those countries where the preparation of soda forms a 
a considerable branch of commerce, the seeds are regularly 
sown in a proper situation near the sea; where they usually 
shoot above the ground in the course of a fortnight. In 
Spain they plough the land and manure it well, then, hav¬ 
ing turned the earth twice more, they make it smooth with 
boards instead of harrows, and sow the seed in January and 
February, waiting always for wet weather. When the plant 
is about the bigness of a shilling, they clear off all the weeds. 
About the time that the seeds become ripe, the plants are 
pulled up by the roots, and exposed in a suitable place to 
dry, and there the seeds are collected: this being done, 
the plants are tied up in bundles, and burned in an oven 
constructed for that purpose; the ashes, whilst hot, being 
continually stirred with long poles. The saline matter, on 
becoming cold, forms a hard solid mass, which is afterwards 
broken in pieces of a convenient size for exportation. 
The shrubby sorts may be propagated by layers or 
cuttings. 
SALSONA. See Solsona. 
SALSTADT, a small town in the east of Sweden, in the 
province of Upland, on the gulf of Bothnia. 
SALSTON, -a village of England, in Cambridgeshire, 
situated in the vale near Gogmagog-hills. 
SALSU'GINOUS, adj. [salsugineux, Fr. Cotgrave ; 
from salsugo, Lat.] Saltish; somewhat salt. The dis¬ 
tinction of salts, wherby they are discriminated into acid, 
volatile, or salsuginous, if I may so call the fugitive salts 
of animal substances, and fixed or alcalizate, may appear 
of much use in natural philosophy. Boyle. 
SALT, s. [salt, Goth, pealc, Sax. sal, Lat.] In com¬ 
mon acceptation, the substance properly called muriate of 
soda. Chemists, however, use the word in a very undefined 
sense, for all compounds of acids, with alkalies, earths, 
or metallic oxyds.— Salts . are bodies friable and brittle, 
in some degree pellucid, sharp or pungent to the taste, and 
dissoluble in'water; but after that is evaporated, incorpo¬ 
rating, crystallizing, and forming themselves into angular 
figures. Woodward .—Taste; smack.—Though we are jus¬ 
tices and doctors, and churchmen, Mr. Page, we have some 
salt of our youth in us; we are the sons of women. Shak- 
speare. —Is not discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, 
virtue, and liberality, the spice and salt that seasons a man ? 
Shakspeare. —Put also metaphorically for tears. 
SAL 
He perfidiously has given up. 
For certain drops of salt, your city Rome, 
To his wife and mother. Shakspeare. 
The production and manufacture of salt have already been 
sufficiently noticed in the articles Rock-Salt and Poland, 
in this work. 
SALT, adj. Having the taste of salt: as, salt fish.— 
Impregnated with salt.—It hath been observed by the 
ancients, that salt water will dissolve salt put into it in less 
time than fresh water. Bacon. —A leap into salt water very 
often gives a new motion to the spirit, and a new turn to the 
blood. Addison. —Abounding with salt.—He shall inhabit 
the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land, and not 
inhabited: Jer. xvii. 6.—Acrid, irritating [as salt.] 
We were better parch in Africk sun, 
Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes. Shakspeare. 
Thou old and true Menenius, 
Thy tears are salter than a younger man’s. 
And venomous to thine eyes. Shakspeare. 
Lecherous; salacious. 
All the charms of love. 
Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wan lip! Shakspeare. 
To SALT, v. a. To season with salt—If the salt have 
lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted ?■ St. Matt. v. 
13.—If the offering was of flesh, it was salted thrice. 
Brown. 
SALT, s. [sault , old Fr. salt us, Lat.] A leap or 
jump. Not in use. 
Frisking lambs 
Make wanton salts about their dry-suck’d dams. B. Jonson. 
SALT, a village of England, in Staffordshire; 3 miles 
north-east of Stafford. 
SALT, a river of the United States, in Kentucky, which 
rises in Mercer county, and running north-west, eaters the 
Ohio, 20 miles below Louisville. It is navigable for boats 
150 miles, and is 150 yards wide at its mouth. 
SALT CREEK, a river of the United States, in Ohio, 
which runs south-east into the Scioto, about 15 miles below 
Chillicothe. Near this river are salt springs, from which salt 
is manufactured in large quantities. The salt-works are 
about 80 miles north-west of Gallipolis. 
SALT CREEK, a township of the United States, in 
Muskingum county, Ohio. Population 389. 
SALT CREEK, a township of the United States, in Pick¬ 
away county, Ohio. Population 810. 
SALT CREEK, a township of the United States, in Fay¬ 
ette county, Pennsylvania. Population 994. 
SALT CREEK, a river of Mexico, in Yucatan, which 
runs into the bay of Honduras. Lat. 18. 10. N. long. 89. 
24. W. 
SALT ISLAND, one of the Virgin Islands. Lat. 18. 5. 
N. long. 64. 6. W. 
SALT ISLAND, Great, an island near the south coast 
of Jamaica. Lat. 17. 50. N. long. 76. 57. W. 
SALT ISLAND, Little, an island near the south coast 
of Jamaica; 1 mile north of Great Salt Island. 
SALT KEY, a small island in the West Indies. Lat. 21. 
30. N. long. 71. 3. W. 
SALT LICK CREEK, a small stream of the United • 
States, which enters the Ohio, in the state of Kentucky. 
SALT RIVER, a river of Jamaica, which runs into the 
sea, opposite Great Salt Island. 
SALT RIVER, an arm of the sea, which divides Guade¬ 
loupe. 
SALT, or Saline River, a river of Louisiana, which 
falls into the Missouri. It is about 30 yards wide at its mouth, 
and has its name from the number of salt lakes and springs 
which render its water brackish. The river is very rapid, 
and its banks are falling in.—There is another river of the 
same name. 
SALT RIVER, a river of Louisiana, which runs into the 
Mississippi, bearing from that river 75. west. It is about 
120 miles 
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