A salt pond. Examples, 1450–1888, N.E.D.
1806. [Salt River] received its name from the number of salines on its banks, which impregnate its waters, when in a low state.—Thomas Ashe, ‘Travels,’ iii. 3. (N.E.D.)
1806. [They] make salt at a neighbouring saline; coffee from the wild pea; and extract sugar from the maple tree.—Id., iii. 4 (Lond., 1808).
1822. There is a saline near this place; but we could not ascertain its position.—Mass. Spy, Feb. 6: from the Detroit Gazette.
1826. There seems to have been, at that time, a competition between the salines of New York, and those of Kenhawa.—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 24. (Italics in the original.)
