Salt, city of (Hastings' Dictionary)

This was one of the cities which fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah, and was situated in the wilderness of • In the proportion o( 2S to 29 gtummcs per litre. t Hull, iloiint Seir, 3I1. xiv. p. 129; Lartct, Couoy d'Ex- ploration dela Mer ilorU : TriMtram, Land oj lifrafl, 326. t JoH. Ant. xit. ill. 3. Revenue woa raised by a tax on salt, the remiwlon of which wu oSer«d the Jew* by Demetriiu^ king of Syria ; ib. ziu. IL S. 356 SALT SEA Beth-arabah (Joa 15"-«).

It was al^o ""^J" froiu En-L'edi, the site of which we know ; hence t may te inferred to have occupied «ome pos^ion ^, fi,» wp<itpm shore of the Dead Sea, between "E"n 'iV andT-A^S Usdum (the -It -ounUm. See art. Salt). ^- "-""^ SALUTATION