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Salt Lake

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salt lake [′sȯlt ‚lāk]
(hydrology)
A confined inland body of water having a high concentration of salts, principally sodium chloride.

Salt Lake 

in the broad sense, a body of water that is perceptibly salty to the taste (mineralization in excess of 1 g/kg) and therefore unfit for drinking.



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They take him across the salt lake which is big as the sky.
"Our cattle were all played out," Saxon was saying, "and winter was so near that we couldn't dare try to cross the Great American Desert, so our train stopped in Salt Lake City that winter.
In three years he was better off than his neighbours, in six he was well-to-do, in nine he was rich, and in twelve there were not half a dozen men in the whole of Salt Lake City who could compare with him.
 
 
 
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