By 629752_pvfm3x Another survey in, 2008, targeted on a much youthful demographic of teenagers and young adults, aged 15-21. It discovered that 16% of 1350 surveyed had had one of these sex within the earlier 3 months, with condoms being used 29% of the time. Northern Ireland was on the other end of the spectrum with lower than half (forty four per cent) of people reporting having weekly sex. Salween, a river of Asia whose supply remains to be unsure; forms in its decrease half the boundary between Siam and British Burma, and falls into the Gulf of Martaban; its higher course traverses the northern Shan district; solely eighty m. Salts, in chemistry an vital class of compound substances formed by the union of an acid with a metal or a base, that’s, a substance having, like a metal, the power of changing partially or in complete the hydrogen of the acid employed. Lyonnet conceived it to be designed for the purpose of secreting a substance for forming the nerves. Samoa, or Navigators’ Islands (36), a bunch of 14 volcanic islands in the W. Pacific, of which three alone are of any dimension-Savaii, Upolu, and Tutuila; all are mountainous and richly wooded; climate is moist and heat; copra is the chief export, and cotton, espresso, tobacco, &c., are grown; the natives, a vigorous Polynesian race, have been Christianised; the islands are underneath the joint suzerainty of Britain, Germany, and the United States; the chief city of the group is Apia (2), at the head of a pretty bay in Upolu; close to here R. Louis Stevenson spent the last five years of his life.
About latitude 40, north, the Azores; in 33, the Madeiras; between 29 and 27, the Canaries; and between 18 and 16, the Islands of Cape Verd, successively supply themselves to the voyager, affording abundantly each species of accommodation his circumstances can require. Samaria, a city of a district of the title between Judea and Galilee within the Holy Land, and which became the capital of the North Kingdom of Israel after the revolt from the Southern; was desolated by the hosts of Assyria in 720 B.C., and repeopled afterwards by Assyrian settlers, who were converted to the Jewish religion, and ministered to by a Jewish priest; when the Jews rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem, the Samaritans’ supply to assist was rejected, and the refusal led to a bitter hostility between the Jews and Samaritans ever after. Salisbury (17), a cathedral city, and capital of Wiltshire, eighty four m. SE. of Naples; has some fine Gothic buildings, notably the cathedral of St. Matthew; had a European fame within the Middle Ages for its medical school and college, closed in 1817; cotton-spinning is the chief business; within the neighbourhood are the ruins of Pæstum and an outdated Norman castle. Salsette (108), an island N. of Bombay, and linked with it by a causeway, with richly cultivated fields and rock temples amongst different ruins.
Samos, a fertile island within the Ægean Sea, about 30 m. Samothrace, a mountainous, bleak island within the Ægean Sea, NW. Salzburg (174), a western province and duchy of Austria, borders on Bavaria between the Tyrol and Upper Austria; is woody and mountainous, especially in the S., where high quality surroundings is formed by the Alps; glorious meadowland favours a prosperous trade in the rearing of cattle and horses. Salzkammergut (18), a gorgeous mountain district of Austria, between Salzburg (W.) and Styria (E.); salt mines and springs give a wealthy yield of salt. Punjab E. and W., between Jhelum and Indus Rivers; derives its name from the remarkably wealthy deposits of rock-salt, which are extensively labored. The natives are chiefly Indians of Aztec descent, but talking Spanish. Broke away from Spanish control in 1821; was a member of the Central American Confederacy, however since 1853 has enjoyed complete independence. Salvador (780), the smallest but the most densely populated of the republics of Central America, about one-sixth the size of England and Wales; has a western foreshore between Guatemala (N.) and Nicaragua (S.), fronting the Pacific for 140 m.; slopes up from rich alluvial coast-lands to high plateaus, which stretch, seamed and broken by rivers and volcanoes, to the Cordillera frontier of Honduras on the E.; soil is extremely fertile and naturally irrigated by quite a few streams, and produces in abundance coffee and indigo (chief exports), balsam, tobacco, sugar, cereals, &c.; has a warm, healthy local weather.
