They managed to set fire to the pier and the saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [Some Assembly Required] Reference
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle made a film of the Mitsubishi saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet | Inhabitat] Reference
Thus, a large quantity of water is furnished for irrigation in gardens, or for supplying the needs of saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The last thing we did at Tezcuco, was to witness the laying down of a new line of water-pipes for the saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Confederate troops were stationed along the mainland shore, particularly near Whiskey Creek, the largest saltworks in the area. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference
The terrestrial component include important ecosystems associated with the saltworks areas (Las Salinas de Ibiza y Forementera). From Wordnik.com. [Salinas de Ibiza y Formentera Nature Reserve, Spain] Reference
Thanks to this traditional use, saltworks (except one) are in an exceptional state of conservation and still have an optimal aquatic system. From Wordnik.com. [Salinas de Ibiza y Formentera Nature Reserve, Spain] Reference
The 2000 hectares of Guérande saltworks in Brittany are said to be a supreme example of some of the most ecologically sound land development. From Wordnik.com. [Shakin' it.. Or making smoothies..] Reference
There is a highly diverse bird fauna with 205 recorded species, most of them concentrated on the coastal lagoons and saltworks, of which 171 are migratory species. From Wordnik.com. [Salinas de Ibiza y Formentera Nature Reserve, Spain] Reference
The quality of the salt produced in the saltworks of Ibiza and Formentera (Las Salinas) depends on the quality of the coastal waters which, in turn, depends to a great extent on the ecological functions of the Posidonia prairies. From Wordnik.com. [Salinas de Ibiza y Formentera Nature Reserve, Spain] Reference
The terrestrial component of the nominated World Heritage Site includes the small islands of Freus (Penjats, Espardell and Espalmador) and the coastal lagoons and saltworks areas (Las Salinas) on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera. From Wordnik.com. [Salinas de Ibiza y Formentera Nature Reserve, Spain] Reference
Other activities, which could put extra pressure on mangroves, are the creation and expansion of saltworks and aquaculture ponds, and oil spills in the Orinoco Delta, where intense oil prospecting activity has been mounting during recent years, and although not in this ecoregion is not far along the coast from the Grotto de Paria. From Wordnik.com. [Coastal Venezuelan mangroves] Reference
Adventures in Nature also keeps readers abreast of the most important environmental dilemmas facing Mexico -- such as the proposed expansion of the saltworks project in Baja's San Ignacio Lagoon and its destructive implications for migrating whales and turtles -- and details steps being taken to protect environmentally fragile zones and species in danger of extinction. From Wordnik.com. [All booked up] Reference
Bromwich, and Droitwich, still preserve the memory of these early saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain] Reference
This town was peopled solely by natives who came from the saltworks of Apaicuare. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
He got himself exempt from service in the field by working in the government saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference
Near Salze we saw some fine buildings which belong to the extensive saltworks existing here. From Wordnik.com. [Visit to Iceland] Reference
We put to shore, at the farm of Braxton Cooper 25, a worthy man, who has the management of the saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [Brackenridge's Journal of a Voyage up The Missouri River, in 1811] Reference
In September, an expedition under General Burbridge was sent to destroy the saltworks at Saltville, Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant — Complete] Reference
The Federals have destroyed the extensive steam saltworks erected by the Confederates at St. Joseph's Bay, Florida. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign And Colonial News] Reference
Previous pictures from high above: 1. Pentagon 2. Potomac River 3. San Francisco saltworks 4. San Francisco Steinberger Slough. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The villagers were apparently leasing the roughly 800-acre (320-hectare) stretch of land to the Changguo Saltern company, which used it for saltworks. From Wordnik.com. Reference
What they meant to do, and how far they succeeded, can be best shown by giving the narrative written by their leader, who is at present the honoured manager of the great saltworks on the Nakuro lake. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
There are the narrow streets, stretching saltworks to the docks, which I haunted for their quaintness, and there is Faunal Hall, which I cared to see so much more because Wendell Phillips had spoken in it than because Otis and Adams had. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
The citizens, after so great a disaster, made no resistance, but at their own request were granted a treaty and alliance for a hundred years, giving up a large portion of their territory, called the Septem Pagi, or seven districts, and their saltworks by the river, and handing over fifty of their leading men as hostages. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume I] Reference
3 P.M. Bratten arived from the saltworks, and informed us that Serjt. From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
The Yankees is comin 'over the mountain from Kentucky to the saltworks. ". From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
Meanwhile, Nauset had earned a particularly bad reputation with the British, first for refusing to pay a thousand-dollar ransom in exchange for protection of the town’s saltworks and then for serving as a haven for ships attempting to run the blockade. From Wordnik.com. [Some Assembly Required] Reference
Valuable saltworks are established here. From Wordnik.com. [Brackenridge's Journal of a Voyage up The Missouri River, in 1811] Reference
Its saltworks operated until the mid-1980s. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
A saltworks. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week: SALTERNS] Reference
11: 30 a.m. Tour of the Pedra de Lume saltworks The Governor General will visit the Pedre de Lume saltworks, accompanied by His Excellency Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires (TBC), President of Cape Verde, and Dr Jorge Figueiredo, President of the Municipal Chamber of Sal. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
In the saltworks!. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference
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