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The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines.

The Afghan was true to his salt, and their own retainers, who had come with them from Lucknow, remained steadfast at this crisis.

Robert Fitzgerald received a patent in England for making salt water fresh.

The men arrived in very bad condition, and many of them blinded with the salt water which had dashed into their eyes.

He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.

An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.

How still it was, with only the voice of the sea whispering through the reeds that grew in the salt-water pools!

The facility of manufacture and cheapness of those engines caused them to be much used in the mines, and also elsewhere.

The plan, however, remains in use to this day in many mines, and is frequently spoken of under the name of quartz-crusher.

The price of salt at one period of the long Peninsular war rose to £30 per ton, being retailed in Birmingham at 4l.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

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OCTOBER 26, 1985