52) Welles, Gideon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...returned to the Democratic party in 1868. Welles wrote Lincoln and Seward (1874), and his salty diary (ed. by H. K. Beale, 3 vol., 1960) is of immense value to the...

53) Great Basin. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...heavy rain. Klamath and Utah lakes contain freshwater; most other lakes are brackish or salty. The lakes are remnants of a much larger system of anc. lakes that occupied...

54) lake, body of water. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...thought to be freshwater bodies, many lakes, especially in arid regions, become quite salty because a high rate of evaporation concentrates inflowing salts. The Caspian...