cordgrass, (genus Spartina), genus of 16 species of perennial grasses in the family Poaceae. Cordgrasses are found on marshes and tidal mud flats of North America, Europe, and Africa and often form dense colonies. Some species are planted as soil binders to prevent erosion, and a few are considered

Leonardo Sciascia: …Le parrocchie di Regalpetra (1956; Salt in the Wound), chronicles the history of a small Sicilian town and the effect of politics on the lives of the townspeople. He further examined what he termed sicilitudine (“Sicilian-ness”) in the four stories of Gli zii di Sicilia (1958; Sicilian Uncles). Although Sicilian…

salt karst, solution phenomena occurring in rock salt by the action of groundwater. Although rock salt is considerably more soluble in water than is the calcite that forms karst topography, rock salt is impervious, and solution can take place only on the exterior surfaces. The brine formed by

inland water ecosystem: Saline lakes: Saline lakes (i.e., bodies of water that have salinities in excess of 3 grams per litre) are widespread and occur on all continents, including Antarctica. Saline lakes include the largest lake in the world, the Caspian Sea; the lowest lake, the Dead Sea;…

Salt Lake City, state capital and seat (1849) of Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., situated on the Jordan River at the southeastern end of Great Salt Lake. The world capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), it influences the social, economic, political, and

Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games, athletic festival held in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., that took place Feb. 8–24, 2002. The Salt Lake City Games were the 19th occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games. Scandal and fears of terrorism marked the 2002 Games long before the Olympic torch arrived

Utah: The arts: …Mormon Temple and the turtleback Mormon Tabernacle, both in Salt Lake City. The latter was built in the 1860s. It holds up to 8,000 people and has rare acoustical qualities that enrich the sounds of its world-famous organ, with some 11,600 pipes. There are also notable Mormon temples in St.…

Salt Lake Temple, house of worship that occupies a central position within Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, and within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With its smooth granite exterior and six soaring spires, it sits in Temple Square, a downtown oasis of calm, surrounded by

University of Utah: …campus has a replica of Salt Lake Theater, built in 1862, a significant early theatre in the American West. The university’s libraries contain almost three million books. Notable among the school’s research agencies are the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, the Combustion Research Group, the Center for…

Salt March, major nonviolent protest action in India led by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in March–April 1930. The march was the first act in an even-larger campaign of civil disobedience (satyagraha) Gandhi waged against British rule in India that extended into early 1931 and garnered Gandhi

salt marsh, area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding by salt water or brackish water and is covered with a thick mat of grasses and such grasslike plants as sedges and rushes. Salt marshes are common along low seacoasts, inside barrier bars and

water snake: The salt marsh snake (N. clarkii) lives in the brackish water habitats of the southeastern United States, and adults typically grow to 0.3–0.7 metre (1–2 feet) long. There are three morphologically distinct subspecies: the salt marsh snake (N. clarkii clarkii) of the Gulf Coast region is…

Boris Ivanovich Morozov: …state monopolies on tobacco and salt, which, in the case of the latter commodity, resulted in the quadrupling of the duty exacted. The salt monopoly proved so unpopular that it was abrogated in 1647, but discontent continued; and, when in 1648 commoners were prevented from petitioning the tsar with their…

salt nucleus, tiny particle in the atmosphere that is composed of a salt, either solid or in an aqueous solution; it promotes the condensation of water and thus is one form of condensation nucleus

Józef Wittlin: …literature is Sól ziemi (1936; Salt of the Earth). The book is a tale of a “patient infantryman,” an illiterate Polish peasant who is unwillingly drafted into the Austrian army to fight a war he does not understand. The novel treats not war itself but the bewilderment of a man…

Sebastião Salgado: …subject of Wim Wenders’s documentary The Salt of the Earth (2015). In 2021 Salgado was awarded the prestigious Praemium Imperiale by the Japan Art Association.

playa, flat-bottom depression found in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts within arid and semiarid regions, periodically covered by water that slowly filtrates into the ground water system or evaporates into the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand, and mud along the bottom

salt dome: …is the main component are salt pillows and salt walls, which are related genetically to salt domes, and salt anticlines, which are essentially folded rocks pierced by upward migrating salt. Other material, such as gypsum and shale, form the cores of similar geologic structures, and all such structures, including salt…

Salt Fork Arkansas River: …Lake, which is largely within Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is noted especially for its great variety of migrating aquatic birds in spring and fall, including the rare and endangered whooping crane.

Salt Range, series of hills and low mountains between the valleys of the Indus and Jhelum rivers, located in the northern part of the Punjab region of Pakistan. It derives its name from extensive deposits of rock salt that form one of the richest salt fields in the world; they are of Precambrian

chemoreception: Taste: …sweet taste, as well as receptors preferentially tasting salt and receptors preferentially tasting bitter substances. The taste receptor cells of other animals can often be characterized in similar ways to those of humans, because all animals have the same basic needs in selecting food. In addition, some organisms have other…

Salt River, tributary of the Gila River, east-central Arizona, U.S. The Salt River is formed at the confluence of the Black and White rivers on a plateau in eastern Gila county. It flows 200 miles (320 km) in a westerly direction and empties into the Gila River 15 miles (24 km) west-southwest of

Mesa: …from a Salt River reclamation project. It experienced rapid growth after World War II, and its basic farm economy diversified to include manufacturing, tourism, and retail trade. It is the site of a Mormon Temple (1927), Mesa Community College (1965), and the University of Arizona’s Agricultural Experimental Station. Salt River…

Phoenix: The Salt River valley, popularly called the Valley of the Sun, includes not only Phoenix but also nearby cities such as Mesa, Scottsdale, and Tempe. Phoenix plays a prominent role in the economy of the Mountain West region of the country, serving as a financial, communications,…

Djelfa: …imposing physical feature known as Salt Rock (Rocher de Sel) that resulted from the erosion of rock salts and marls by rain, and to the west of the town Megalithic funerary structures are found. Pop. (1998) 154,265; (2008) 265,833.

salt: History of use: …is the Via Salaria (Salt Route) over which Roman salt from Ostia was carried into other parts of Italy. Herodotus tells of a caravan route that united the salt oases of the Libyan Desert. The ancient trade between the Aegean and the Black Sea coast of southern Russia was…

Salt March, major nonviolent protest action in India led by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in March–April 1930. The march was the first act in an even-larger campaign of civil disobedience (satyagraha) Gandhi waged against British rule in India that extended into early 1931 and garnered Gandhi

Dead Sea, landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan in southwestern Asia. Its eastern shore belongs to Jordan, and the southern half of its western shore belongs to Israel. The northern half of the western shore lies within the Palestinian West Bank and has been under Israeli occupation since

food preservation: Pickled fruits and vegetables: …the salted, fermented cucumber, called salt stock, may be held for several years.

swamp: Formation: Salt swamps, often characterized by mangrove forests, are formed by seawater flooding and draining, which exposes flat areas of intertidal land.

desertification: Solutions to desertification: …lands, and dry woodlands include:

salt dome: …component are salt pillows and salt walls, which are related genetically to salt domes, and salt anticlines, which are essentially folded rocks pierced by upward migrating salt. Other material, such as gypsum and shale, form the cores of similar geologic structures, and all such structures, including salt domes, are known…

seawater, water that makes up the oceans and seas, covering more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface. Seawater is a complex mixture of 96.5 percent water, 2.5 percent salts, and smaller amounts of other substances, including dissolved inorganic and organic materials, particulates, and a few

estuarine crocodile, (Crocodylus porosus), crocodile species inhabiting brackish waters of wetlands and marine intertidal environments from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar east to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and south to Australia’s northern coast. The estuarine crocodile is the

salt water taffy, a type of taffy (a chewy and soft candy) that originated in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. The recipe for salt water taffy does not actually include salt water from the ocean, though it does usually call for salt and water, as well as sugar, corn syrup, butter, cornstarch,

estuary: Salt wedge estuaries: A salt wedge estuary has minimal mixing, and the salt water forms a wedge, thickest at the seaward end, tapering to a very thin layer at the landward limit. The penetration of this wedge changes with the flow of the river. During…

dik-dik: …Africa: Guenther’s dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri), Salt’s dik-dik (M. saltiana), and the silver dik-dik (M. piacentinii). Kirk’s dik-dik (M. kirkii), the best-known dik-dik, is a common resident of acacia savannas in Kenya and Tanzania. Guenther’s and Kirk’s dik-diks overlap in Kenya. An isolated population of Kirk’s dik-dik, different enough genetically to…

Al-Salṭ, town, west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the Al-Salṭ Road) leading from Amman to Jerusalem. The town is situated in the Al-Balqāʾ highland, about 2,600–2,750 feet (about 790–840 metres) above sea level, and is built on two hills, one of which has the ruins of

Al-Salṭ, town, west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the Al-Salṭ Road) leading from Amman to Jerusalem. The town is situated in the Al-Balqāʾ highland, about 2,600–2,750 feet (about 790–840 metres) above sea level, and is built on two hills, one of which has the ruins of

Saltaire: …in 1853 by the industrialist Sir Titus Salt, a manufacturer of alpaca wool fabrics, as a model village for his employees. The community, named for its founder (Salt) and the nearby river (Aire), was built beside large woolen mills on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Its solid…

John Schlesinger: Films of the late 1960s and ’70s: Waldo Salt adapted James Leo Herlihy’s novel about a pair of small-time hustlers in New York—gimpy Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Texas transplant Joe Buck (Jon Voight)—who unexpectedly bond in the course of living their marginal existences. Schlesinger’s gritty depiction of the urban underbelly was…

harvest mouse: American harvest mice: One, the salt-marsh harvest mouse (R. raviventris), lives only in the tidal salt marshes surrounding San Francisco Bay in California and is listed as an endangered species under federal and state laws. American harvest mice are nocturnal and are active all year. Although terrestrial, they are excellent…

Salt-N-Pepa, American rap group that became one of the first all-female ensembles not only to break into the male-dominated rap music scene but also to cross over into the pop world. Their songs conveyed an independent, feminist attitude and were hugely popular. Salt-N-Pepa was founded by Salt

John Masefield: …his poems of the sea, Salt-Water Ballads (1902, including “Sea Fever” and “Cargoes”), and for his long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911), which shocked literary orthodoxy with its phrases of a colloquial coarseness hitherto unknown in 20th-century English verse.

Salta, provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It is bounded to the southwest by Chile, to the north by Bolivia, and to the northeast by Paraguay. The provincial capital is Salta city. In the southwestern part of the province, high cordilleras of the Andes Mountains, separated by broad

Salta, city, capital of Salta provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It lies in the irrigated Andes Mountains valley of Lerma, on a headstream of the Salado River. It was founded in 1582 as San Felipe de Lerma by Hernando de Lerma, governor of Tucumán. The Spanish royal forces were defeated

Saltaire, early planned industrial settlement near Bradford in Airedale, in what is now Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It was created in 1853 by the industrialist Sir Titus Salt, a manufacturer of alpaca wool

saltarello, medieval and Renaissance court dance and a folk dance of present-day Rome. In the 14th century the saltarello followed the estampie as an afterdance; a few examples survive in manuscript. In the 15th century it followed the basse danse and was sometimes called paso de brabante. It was

titanosaur: …titanosaurs, such as Rapetosaurus and Saltasaurus, have been shown to have possessed osteoderms (armoured plates).

Saltash, town (parish), Cornwall unitary authority, southwestern England. It lies near the English Channel coast, on the west shore of the River Tamar estuary, on the opposite side of which lies Plymouth. Saltash is connected to Plymouth by the Royal Albert Bridge (completed 1859), which was the

locomotion: Saltation: The locomotor pattern of saltation (hopping) is confined mainly to kangaroos, anurans (tailless amphibians), rabbits, and some groups of rodents in the vertebrates and to a number of insect families in the arthropods. All saltatory animals have hind legs that are approximately twice as…

sand dune: Formation and growth of dunes: …a mass of jumping (saltating) grains; coarser particles move slowly along the surface as creep and are kept in motion partly by the bombardment of the saltating grains. Saltating sand bounces more easily off hard surfaces than off soft ones, with the result that more sand can be moved…

mutation theory: …accepted the primary contention of saltationist theory, which argued that new species are produced rapidly through discontinuous transformations. Saltationist theory contradicted Darwinism, which held that species evolved through the gradual accumulation of variation over vast epochs. Second, mutationists tended to hold the strict Darwinian line that all differentiation is for…

node of Ranvier: …in a process known as saltatory conduction.

saltbox, in architecture, type of residential building popular in colonial New England, having two stories in front and a single story in the rear and a double-sloped roof that is longer over the rear section.The original clapboard houses of the New England settlers were constructed around a great

Emerald Fennell: Directing career: …wrote her second feature-length film, Saltburn, which was released in theaters but found a more enthusiastic audience when it was streamed on Amazon Prime. Another wickedly dark comedy but with a gothic flavor, it centers on a shy Oxford student named Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who is drawn into the…

saltbush, (genus Atriplex), genus of about 300 species of herbs and shrubs in the amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), often found on saline soils. Saltbush plants grow throughout temperate and subtropical areas of the world. Young leaves of several species, including the garden orach (A. hortensis),

desert: Origin: …it is thought that the saltbush or chenopod family of plants reached Australia in this way, initially colonizing coastal habitats and later spreading into the inland deserts.

saltcellar, receptacle for table salt, usually made of metal or glass. Salt was taken from it with small spoons. From the Middle Ages until at least the 16th century, salt was a relatively expensive commodity and was kept at the table in vessels commensurate with this status. A large and elaborate

Felix Salten was an Austrian novelist and journalist, author of the children’s classic and adult allegory Bambi, a sensitively told subjective story of the life of a wild deer. As a self-taught young writer he was befriended by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, and Hermann Bahr. A

James Salter was an American fiction writer and screenwriter whose work is characterized by a careful, economical use of language and by themes that often involve the passage of time and the losses experienced along the way. Horowitz was raised in New York City and attended Horace Mann School

Salterton trilogy, series of novels by Robertson Davies, consisting of Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954), and A Mixture of Frailties (1958). The books are comedies of manners that are loosely connected by their setting in Salterton, a provincial Canadian university town, and a number of

jumping spider, (family Salticidae), any of more than 5,000 species of spiders (order Araneida) known for their ability to jump and pounce upon their prey. They range in size from 2 to 22 mm (0.08 to 0.87 inch), although most are small to medium-sized. They are very common in the tropics, but some

estuarine crocodile, (Crocodylus porosus), crocodile species inhabiting brackish waters of wetlands and marine intertidal environments from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar east to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and south to Australia’s northern coast. The estuarine crocodile is the

Saltillo, city, capital of Coahuila estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is located between Monterrey (east) and Torreón (west). Lying in a wide valley at the northern edge of the great Mesa Central, at an elevation of about 5,500 feet (1,700 metres), the city has a cool, dry climate that has

salting, organizing tactic employed by labour unions. To start the process, a union targets a nonunionized company and encourages some of its members to seek employment there. Once these “salts” have been hired, they initiate efforts to organize nonunion workers from within the company. It is the

soap and detergent: Boiling process: Contents of the kettle salt out, or separate, into an upper layer that is a curdy mass of impure soap and a lower layer that consists of an aqueous salt solution with the glycerin dissolved in it. Thus the basis of glycerin removal is the solubility of glycerin and…

liquid: Solutions of electrolytes: …one well-known property is the salting-out effect, in which the solubility of a nonelectrolyte in water is decreased when electrolyte is added. For example, the solubility of ethyl ether in water at 25° C is 0.91 mole percent, but, in an aqueous solution containing 15 weight percent sodium chloride, it…

heraldry: Ordinaries: …the upper half of a saltire (St. Andrew’s cross) with the lower half of a pale, forming a Y-shape. The pile is a triangle pointing downward. The flaunch, or flanch, is a segment of a circle drawn from the top of the shield to the base. The lozenge is a…

ionic compound, any of a large group of chemical compounds consisting of oppositely charged ions, wherein electron transfer, or ionic bonding, holds the atoms together. Ionic compounds usually form when a metal reacts with a nonmetal, where the metallic atoms lose an electron or electrons, becoming

Salto, city, northwestern Uruguay. It is situated on the left bank of the Uruguay River across from Concordia, Arg. Now Uruguay’s second largest city (after Montevideo), Salto is the terminus for the shallow-draft vessels that ply the Uruguay River. Its port supplies northwestern Uruguay and parts

Latin American dance: The Southern Cone: …and flicks, respectively called ganchos, saltos, and boleos. The previous close embrace of the dance relaxed so that couples could accommodate the new steps and leg gestures. Musical accompaniment included the guitar, piano, violin, bandoneón (a square-built button accordion), and voice. The tango singer and film star Carlos Gardel became…

Tequendama Falls, waterfalls on the Bogotá (Funza) River, which is a tributary of the Magdalena River, in the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Oriental, central Colombia. One of the country’s major tourist attractions, the falls are located in a forested area 20 miles (32 km) west of Bogotá. The river

Salto del Guairá, town, eastern Paraguay. It is situated on the right bank of the Paraná River at the Brazil–Paraguay border. Salto del Guairá is the site of one of the earliest colonial settlements in Paraguay, Ciudad Real, which was established in 1556 by Rui Díaz de Melgarejo. The original

Basin and Range Province: …into Sonora, Mexico, while the Salton Trough extends to the Gulf of California; the Salton Trough is a concave desert basin that descends to 235 feet (72 meters) below sea level at the Salton Sea. East of the Sonoran Desert and extending southward from the Colorado Plateau is the Mexican…

Salton Sea, saline lake, in the lower Colorado Desert, southern California, U.S. The area that is now the lake was formerly a salt-covered sink or depression (a remnant of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla) about 280 feet (85 metres) below sea level until 1905–06, when diversion controls on the Colorado

Vincent D’Onofrio: …dealer in the black comedy The Salton Sea (2002), the father of the title character in Thumbsucker (2005), a Mississippi disc jockey (uncredited) in Cadillac Records (2008), and a criminal killed by a cop for the money he is holding in Brooklyn’s Finest (2009). In 2004 he wrote, directed, and…

Basin and Range Province: …into Sonora, Mexico, while the Salton Trough extends to the Gulf of California; the Salton Trough is a concave desert basin that descends to 235 feet (72 meters) below sea level at the Salton Sea. East of the Sonoran Desert and extending southward from the Colorado Plateau is the Mexican…

search engine: History: In the 1960s Gerard Salton of Cornell University—now called “the father of information retrieval” and other similar titles—effectively took up Bush’s challenge. Leading teams of computer scientists at Harvard University and Cornell, Salton created the “System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text” (SMART). The breakthrough observation…

Watertown: …by a group led by Sir Richard Saltonstall and was incorporated as a town in 1630; it was the first inland farming town. Its name may have derived from the fact that the area was well watered and abounded with fish. Construction of gristmills (1630s) and a cloth-fulling mill (1660s)…

saltpetre, any of three naturally occurring nitrates, distinguished as (1) ordinary saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, KNO3; (2) Chile saltpetre, cubic nitre, or sodium nitrate, NaNO3; and (3) lime saltpetre, wall saltpetre, or calcium nitrate, Ca(NO3)2. These three nitrates generally occur as

saltpetre, any of three naturally occurring nitrates, distinguished as (1) ordinary saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, KNO3; (2) Chile saltpetre, cubic nitre, or sodium nitrate, NaNO3; and (3) lime saltpetre, wall saltpetre, or calcium nitrate, Ca(NO3)2. These three nitrates generally occur as

organized labour: From World War I to 1968: The institutionalization of unions and collective bargaining: …business and labour concluded the Saltsjöbaden Agreement, in which, while affirming the rights of unions to strike and of employers to lock out in retaliation, they pledged to use these measures only as a last resort and in consideration of their effect on third parties. Swedish unions, having moved into…

Bodø: …narrow marine channel known as Saltstraumen, famous for its strong tidal current and its whirlpools, which rival those of the Maelstrom, to the northwest. Bodø’s far northern site enables the midnight sun to be seen for about a month (early June–early July). Pop. (2007 est.) mun., 45,575.

Anatolia: Origins and ascendancy: …Kemah (Camcha) until 1252; the Saltuqids, who ruled in Erzurum (Theodosiopolis) until 1201; and, most importantly, the Dānishmendids, who were centred in Sivas, Kayseri (Caesarea Cappadociae), and Amasya (Amaseia) until 1177. In western Anatolia another important chieftain was Sulaymān, the son of Qutalmïsh, a distant cousin of the ruling Great…

Al-Salṭ, town, west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway (often called the Al-Salṭ Road) leading from Amman to Jerusalem. The town is situated in the Al-Balqāʾ highland, about 2,600–2,750 feet (about 790–840 metres) above sea level, and is built on two hills, one of which has the ruins of

Edgar Evertson Saltus was one of the few U.S. novelists who adopted the sophisticated cynicism, art-for-art’s-sake credo, and other mannerisms of the European school of Decadents. In his time his novels were popular for their wit and for their shocking, erotic incidents. Educated at Yale and

seawater, water that makes up the oceans and seas, covering more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface. Seawater is a complex mixture of 96.5 percent water, 2.5 percent salts, and smaller amounts of other substances, including dissolved inorganic and organic materials, particulates, and a few

estuarine crocodile, (Crocodylus porosus), crocodile species inhabiting brackish waters of wetlands and marine intertidal environments from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar east to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and south to Australia’s northern coast. The estuarine crocodile is the

Robert P. Tristram Coffin: …Prize for poetry in 1936; Saltwater Farm (1937) is a collection of poems about Maine.

fishing: Saltwater fishing: In saltwater fishing, all the methods mentioned previously are used. Fly-fishing in salt water became very popular during the last quarter of the 20th century. Saltwater fishing is done from a beach, off rocks, from a pier, or from a boat, which may…

inland water ecosystem: Saline lakes: Saline lakes (i.e., bodies of water that have salinities in excess of 3 grams per litre) are widespread and occur on all continents, including Antarctica. Saline lakes include the largest lake in the world, the Caspian Sea; the lowest lake, the Dead Sea;…

pearl: Jewelers commonly refer to saltwater pearls as Oriental pearls and to those produced by freshwater mollusks as freshwater pearls.

terrapin, (Malaclemys terrapin), a term formerly used to refer to any aquatic turtle but now restricted largely, though not exclusively, to the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) of the turtle family Emydidae. Until the last third of the 20th century, the word terrapin was used commonly in

Brassicales: Bataceae, Salvadoraceae, and Koeberliniaceae: Bataceae, Salvadoraceae, and Koeberliniaceae have in common ultrastructural features, the same base chromosome number, and flowers that lack a nectary and have only two carpels. They, and many other Brassicales, have a curved embryo.

Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov was a novelist of radical sympathies and one of the greatest of all Russian satirists. A sensitive boy, he was deeply shocked by his mother’s cruel treatment of peasants, which he later described in one of his most important works, Poshekhonskaya starina

Casino Royale: Broccoli and Harry Saltzman did not hold the rights. Rather than try and compete with the popular Sean Connery movies, the filmmakers decided to shoot the novel as a spoof. However, the production quickly spiraled out of control with five directors working simultaneously but never in conjunction…

Saluda, county, west-central South Carolina, U.S. The Saluda River and Lake Murray provide the northern boundary, and the western corner lies within Sumter National Forest. The county consists of a piedmont region of low hills, with large areas forested in pine woods. In the late 17th and early

Saluda: …region was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Saluda Indians; by the mid-18th century European settlers were well established there. Saluda county was formed in 1896.

Saluda River, river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains, west-central South Carolina, U.S., in North and South forks, which join 10 miles (15 km) northwest of Greenville. The main stream flows southeastward past Pelzer and, after a course of approximately 145 miles (235 km), joins the Broad River at