Salsette
an island N. of Bombay, British India, with which it is connected beautiful island, diversified by mountain guese churches, convents, and villas, and It is a rich in extensive rice fields, cocoanut groves, and palm trees; area, 240 square guese churches, convents, and villas, and Nearly 100 caves and cave-temples exist groves, and palm trees; area, 240 square rich in extensive rice fields, cocoanut are excavated in the face of a single hill, and contain elaborate carvings chiefly the island, 5 miles W. of Thana. They representations of Buddha, many of colossal size. There are caves in other localiare excavated in the face of a single hill, and contain elaborate carvings chiefly occupied by the Portuguese early in the SALSIFY 16th century, and was captured by the Mahrattas in 1739 and by the British in