Salina
a city, and county-seat of Salina co., Kan.; on the Smoky Hill river, and on the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa , Rock Island and Pa- Fé, and the Chicago . cific railroads; 100 miles W. of Topeka It contains the Kansas Wesleyan University (M. E.), Normal University, St. John's School (P. E.), street railroads, electric lights, numerous churches, public library, Y. M. C. A. building, National and other banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Salina has a foundry and machine shops, wholesale stores, paper, flour, and planing mills, and several grain elevators. Near the city are important gypsum quarries and salt springs. Pop. (1910) 9,678; (1920) 15,085.
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Salina Formation
a name given in North America to one of the subdivisions of the Silurian system, which appears to be equivalent to the lower portion of the Ludlow rocks of the British series.
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Salinas
a river in California which enters Monterey Bay about 76 miles S. E. of San Francisco. It is 150 miles long.
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Saline
the name of several rivers in the United States. (1) A river in Arkansas, whose source is made up of several tributaries near the N. border of Saline co. Its course is S. E. and S. It crosses Grant Dorsey, and Bradley counties, and flows into the Ouachita river in Bradley co., on its E. limit; length about 200 miles. (2) A river in the S. part of Illinois which flows S. E. between Gallatin and Hardin counties, into the Ohio river, 9 miles S. of Shawneetown. Including its S. fork, it is 100 miles long. (3) river in Kansas, rising in the W. part of the State, and flowing with an E. course through the counties of Trego, Ellis, Russell, and Lincoln. In Saline co. it flows into the Smoky Hill river 7 miles to the E. of Salina; length, nearly 200 miles.
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Salisbury
sawlz'ber-i, the county town of Wiltshire, England. It is situated at the confluence of four beautiful streams, eighty miles southeast of London. The city was formerly the seat of a considerable manufacture of woolens and cutlery, but it now depends chiefly on local trade with the surrounding agricultural district. The town is also known as New Sarum. The site of a former town lies in the immediate vicinity. Up to 1832 the land owners of Old Sarum had the right of sending two members to Parliament, although there was not an inhabited building in the borough. The neighborhood is remarkably rich in antiquities. The Blackmore Museum of Salisbury contains one of the most extensive and best arranged collections of prehistoric implements and remains to be found in England. Salisbury is noted chiefly, however, for its cathedral. It has the form of a Greek cross. A central spire, celebrated for its lightness, slender proportions, and beauty, rises to a height of 404 feet, the tallest in England. The spire was completed in 1375. It is two feet out of perpendicular. The total length of the building is 449 feet. The edifice was begun in 1220. There are two transepts. The cathedral is considered the finest specimen of early English architecture in Great Britain . It is visited yearly by a large number of tourists.
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Salisbury (City and county-seat of Rowan)
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a city and county-seat of Rowan co., N. C.; on the Southern railroad; 131 miles W. of Raleigh. It is in a mineral and agricultural section; contains Salisbury Normal and Industrial College for Women, Livingstone College students, a State Normal School for negro for Colored Pupils, National and other banks, and several weekly periodicals. It has a woolen mill, machine shops, tobacco factories, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,153; (1920) 13,884.
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Salisbury (City of Maryland)
a city of Maryland, the county-seat of Wicomico co. It is on the Wicomico river and on the Baltimore, Chesapeake, and Atlantic and the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroads. It has lumber mills, railroad repair shops, and canning factories. Other industries include the manufacture of flour, fertilizers, shirts and underwear, etc. Its institutions include a hospital and a home for the aged. Pop. (1910) 6,690; (1920) 7,553.
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Salisbury (ROLLIN D an American educator)
ROLLIN D., an American educator, born at Spring Prairie, Wis., in 1858. He graduated from Beloit College in 1881 and was on the faculty of that institution as professor of biology and geology from 1884 to 1891. He was professor of general and geographic geology at the University of Wisconsin in 1891-2. In the latter year he went to the University of Chicago, where in 1899 he became dean of the Ogden School of Science, and in 1903 head of the department of geography. He also served as assistant United States geologist, from 1882 to 1894. From 1919 he was head of the department of geology at the University of Chicago. His writings include "The Physical Geography of New Jersey" (1898); "The Elements of Geography" (1912); and " Geology" (1914).
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Salisbury Plain
in South Wiltshire , England, an undulating tract of chalky down affording splendid pasture for sheep.
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Salix
the willow, a genus of plants, the United States are numerous, and coma. The species found in monly known as willows, osiers, and swallows. Their timber, though wanting in many useful purposes; and the wood of strength and durability, is applied to the flexible branches and twigs is largely sage willow, S. tristis, a small, downy employed for basket -work, hoops, etc. The shrub with a profusion of aments in most common species in the Northern spring appearing before the leaves, is the and Middle States. A peculiar crystalline alkaloid, resembling quinine in its properties, called salicine, has been obtained from the bark, leaves, or flowers of about 20 species of this genus. Morocco; on the Atlantic, at the mouth
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Sallee
SALI, or SLA , a seaport of of the Bu-Ragreb , on the N. side of the river, opposite Rabat. It was for centuries notorious as a haunt of pirates, who carried the terror of their name into and gave its name to the Sallee Rovers , the English Channel, and who are known to every reader of "Robinson Crusoe." Pop. about 20,500. CRISPUS, a Roman historian; born in SALLUST , GAIUS SALLUSTIUS Amiternum in 86 B. c. He became tribwith Cæsar. In 47 B. c. he was prætor une in 52 B. c., and in the civil war sided elect, and in the following year accompanied Cæsar to the African War, where returned with immense wealth, was ache was left as governor of Numidia. He cused of maladministration and oppression, and after Cæsar's death lived in luxurious retirement. Sallust wrote several historical works in a clear and concise style. His "Catilinarian War" is a history of the Catiline conspiracy. The "Jugurtha, or Jugurthine War," is a history of the war against Jugurtha, King of Numidia, from 111 B. c. to 106 B. C. He died in Rome in 34 b. c.
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