Crossword-Solution: SALADOS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Spain abounds with brackish streams, _Salados_, and with salt-mines, or saline deposits, after the evaporation of the sea-waters.

Many of the Salados and Salinas in the higher parts of the eastern range, as well as the springs in the neighbourhood of Valencia, might be utilized with advantage.

Spain abounds with brackish streams, _Salados_, and with salt-mines, or saline deposits after the evaporation of the sea-waters; indeed, the soil of the central portions is so strongly impregnated with “villainous saltpetre,” that the small province of La Mancha alone could furnish materials to blow up the world; the surface of these regions, always arid, is every day becoming more so, from the singular antipathy which the inhabitants of the interior have against trees.

The volume of the Genil increases but little between Granada and Ecija; for its principal feeders, though falling into it below Granada, are expended in irrigating the _vega_; and the _salados_, on the western side of the _Serranía de Ronda_, are mostly dry during the summer.