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Rh its present site, and began to be called Salta in the. A large is carried on with.  SALTCOATS, a and of,, contiguous to , and 19  north of. It possesses a good -, and of has become a favourite. The received a  as a  in, but afterwards lost its privileges and fell into decay. At a very early period  was, and  were  by  in , but that  has now ceased. A was also  and for a considerable time there was a large  of, but the  has now passed to. The, 4624 in , in was 5096.  SALTILLO, the capital of the of in, 65  south-west of  by the, on the slope of a  overlooking a. It has well-, several good , and   and other  establishments. The is about 17,000.  

SALT LAKE CITY (originally Great Salt Lake City), a of the, the capital of and the  of, stands nearly in 41°N. and 112°W. , at a height of 4250 above the, on the brow of a slight decline at the western base of the  , and on the right  of the Jordan, a  which flows from  into Great Salt Lake. By the Central  the  is 36  south of  on the, and it is the terminus of the Southern and Western  s. The  is laid out  fashion, with all the s 137  wide and all the blocks 40. and  have been freely, and on each side of every north and south  flows a  of pure  in an open channel. With the exception of some modern, the are nearly all of -dried. The largest and ugliest  is the tabernacle, with its huge  en. It is said to accommodate 8000 to 10,000 s, and has the second largest in. Within the same enclosure as the tabernacle are the endowment, where the  of  are performed, and the new   (–)  at a cost of 10,000,000. Other conspicuous are the -, used as the , the , Walker’s  , the Salt Lake , the , the  , several s, and the. The was 5000 in, 8230 in , 12,813 in , and 20,768 in  (86 ).

1em  SALTPETRE, or  (₃), is a  obtained as a  product in three different ways. (1)It occurs as an on the surface or in the superficial stratum of the  in many parts of the, but specially to a great extent in the   and other parts of. (2)It is obtained in a semi-artificial manner in or saltpetre s. These consist of heaps of   matter mixed with ,  , and other rubbish covered over from , and from time to time damped with the  from  and other. Such heaps develop within them small proportions of the and other, and are, in effect, artificial imitations of the saltpetre-bearing  of. They were formerly very common in, , , and. (3)A large quantity of saltpetre is now prepared from, the , by double of the   with another  of. See, , and ,  pp.,. Saltpetre is of importance in numerous, among the most prominent of which are  and. It is also used as an agent in  and in. In the of  it is extensively employed with  and, and it also occupies an important place in.

1em  SALUS (Safety), a ped in various parts of ancient. At a  adorned with  by  d the  (Pictor) was dedicated to her in ; and  s were offered to her on behalf of the  and the. In, on the occasion of a, s were made to , , and Salus. Here the special attribute of the appears to be “”; and in later times she was identified with the   of,. On s of, , &c., she is represented as a young maiden with the of , a  drinking out of a.  SALUTATIONS, or greetings, are customary forms of kindly or respectful address, especially on meeting or parting or on occasions of approach. the salutation ( salutatio, “ing ”) refers to s spoken, but the conventional gestures are even more purposeful, and both should be considered together. The principal modes of saluting, when classified, fall into a few groups, with well-defined meanings, the examination of which explains the practice of any particular or. Forms of salutation frequent among and  may last on almost unchanged in  custom, or may be found in modified shapes, while in other cases they may have disappeared altogether and been replaced by new greetings. The habit of affectionate clasping or embracing is seen at the meetings of the rude and, or where the  in friendly salute hug “like the grip of a .” This natural gesture appears in old  and  custom:—“ ran to meet him  and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and ed him, and they ” (Gen. xxxiii. 4); so, when  makes himself known,  and  