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SALTBURN BY THE SEA

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SALTBURN BY THE See also:

SEA , a seaside resort in the See also:Cleveland See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:North See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 21 M. E. of See also:Middlesbrough by a See also:branch of the North Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 2578. A frm sandy See also:beach extends westward to See also:Redcar and the mouth of the See also:Tees, while eastward towards See also:Whitby the cliffs become very See also:fine, Boulby Cliff (666 ft.) being the highest sea cliff in England. Several fishing villages occur along this See also:coast, of which none is more picturesque than Staithes, lying in a steep See also:gully in the cliff. There are brine See also:baths supplied from See also:wells near Middlesbrough, a See also:pier, gardens and promenades. Inland the See also:county is billy and picturesque, though in See also:part defaced by the Cleveland See also:iron mines. See also:SALT-CELLAR, a See also:vessel containing salt, placed upon the table at meals. The word is a See also:combination of "salt" and " Baler," assimilated in the 16th and 17th centuries to "cellar" (See also:Lat. cellarium, a storehouse). " Saler " is from the Fr. (Mod. saliere), Lat. salarium, that which belongs to salt, cf. " See also:salary." Salt cellar is, therefore, a tautological expression.

There are two types of salts, the large ornamental salt which during the See also:

medieval ages and later was one of the most important pieces of See also:household See also:plate, and the smaller " salts," actually used and placed near the plates or trenchers of the guests at table; 'they were hence styled " See also:trencher salts." The See also:great salts, below which the inferior guests sat, were, in the earliest See also:form which survives, shaped like an See also:hour-See also:glass and have a See also:cover. New See also:College, See also:Oxford, possesses a magnificent specimen, dated 1493. Later salts take a square or cylindrical shape. The Elizabethan salt, kept with the See also:regalia in the See also:Tower of See also:London, has a cover with numerous figures. The London See also:Livery Companies possess many salts of a still later See also:pattern, rather See also:low in height and without a cover. The " trencher salts " are either of triangular or circular shape, some" are many-sided. The circular See also:silver salt with legs came into use in the '8th See also:century.

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