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Salzbrunn – Sand Eel

Salzbrunn

a group of three villages (New, Lower, and Upper Salzbrunn) in Silesia; 30 miles S. of Breslau; having eight mineral springs, which attract many visitors in the season. The water is alkalo-saline; it is extensively exported. There are glass and porcelain factories, yarn-spinning works, brick works, and coal mines.

Sambre

a river of France and Belgium; a tributary of the Meuse, which it enters at Namur; length 110 miles, great part of which is useful for navigation.

Samolus

a genus of plants, order Primulaceæ. They are herbs with alternate leaves, and flowers corymbose or racemose. S. valerandi, the water pimpernel, found in wet, gravelly places throughout the world, is one foot high, and has small, white flowers, the corolla of which is twice the length of the calyx.

Samosata

the capital till A. D. 17 of the Syrian kingdom of Commagene, on the Euphrates, 130 miles N. N. E. of Aleppo. It was the birthplace of Lucian and of Paul of Samosata.

Samovar

a Russian tea apparatus, the water in which is boiled by means of hot coals contained in an iron tube, and then poured over the tea.

San Antonio

a river in Texas, formed by the union of Leon creek and Medina river, in Bexar co. Its course is east and through Wilson, Karnes, and Goliad counties. It flows into the Espiritu Santo Bay, an indenture of the Gulf of Mexico, and is nearly 200 miles long.

Sanatorium

a place to which people resort for the improvement of their health.

San Bernardino

a mountain peak in California; the highest point of the Coast Range; elevation 11,600 feet.

Sandarac

or SANDARACH RE-

Sanday

one of the Orkneys, an island of very irregular shape, generally with a very flat surface and a light sandy soil; greatest length, 13 miles. There are a number of small lakes. There is another small island of the same name in the Inner Hebrides, connected with Canna at low water, 4 miles N. W. of Rum.

Sand Crab

or RACING CRAB, a genus (Ocypoda) of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the sea shores of warm countries. O. cursor inhabits the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian SAND EEL SAND LIZARD Ocean, and is remarkable for the rapidity public schools and made her first appearof its motions.

Sand Eel

in ichthyology, a popular name for the genus Ammodytes, and especially for A. lanceolatus, called also the greater, to distinguish it from A. tobianus, the lesser sand eel. They live in shoals, and are much sought after by fishermen, who discover their presence on the surface by watching the porpoises which feed on them.