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And salt-pan workers, who spend most of the year away from villages out on salt flats in the blazing sun, who can now assemble their own solar lanterns.
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A lead salt-pan discovered at Shavington, near Nantwich, bore the inscription Viventi Episcopi White & Barker 2002; Keith Matthews website.
Archive 2009-05-01 Carla 2009
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A lead salt-pan discovered at Shavington, near Nantwich, bore the inscription Viventi Episcopi White & Barker 2002; Keith Matthews website.
A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009
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When I called him he hesitated and looked longingly across the salt-pan desert, deep into the heart of nothing at all.
Spin 2005
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Lotlakani and Nchokotsa we passed the small well named Orapa; and another called Thutsa lay a little to our right — its water is salt and purgative; the salt-pan Chuantsa, having a cake of salt one inch and a half in thickness, is about ten miles to the northeast of Orapa.
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In every salt-pan in the country there is a spring of water on one side.
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A thick belt of mopane-trees (a ‘Bauhinia’) hides this salt-pan, which is twenty miles in circumference, entirely from the view of a person coming from the southeast; and, at the time the pan burst upon our view, the setting sun was casting a beautiful blue haze over the white incrustations, making the whole look exactly like a lake.
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This is the finest salt; that which falls to the bottom of the salt-pan is of a greyish cast.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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And their lips were dry and parched, and their tongues swollen, and before them lay the salt-pan, with right in the centre a little gleam of dark blue water which mocked their misery.
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Anderson struggled to his feet wearily and then went down to the salt-pan.
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