DCHP-3

salt-water creek

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small spring or stream containing salt from local deposits and used by animals as a source of salt.

Quotations

1786
In several places, in the vicinity of the lakes [Ontario and Erie], are found salt water creeks, probably impregnated by the veins of rock-salt, sometimes found in the bowels of the earth. . . .