Crossword-Solution: SALINA 6 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Some of our officers likewise saw a herd apparently drinking the briny fluid from a salina near Cape Blanco.

One day we accompanied a party of the Spaniards in their whale-boat to a salina, or lake from which salt is procured.

The reference is to Schmankewitsch's experiments, page 158: he kept Artemia salina in salt-water, gradually diluted with fresh-water until it became practically free from salt; the crustaceans gradually changed in the course of generations, until they acquired the characters of the genus Branchipus.) When I read imperfectly some years ago the original paper I could not avoid thinking that some special explanation would hereafter be found for so curious a case.

Two or three of the old “Salina” company entered our hole on the Monitor yesterday morning, before our men got there, and took possession, armed with revolvers.

Reeks has analysed for me some of the salt from the salina near the Rio Negro; he finds it composed entirely of chloride of sodium, with the exception of 0.26 of sulphate of lime and of 0.22 of earthy matter: there are no traces of iodic salts.