BRINE

is water saturated with chloride of aodiom of or common salt, like the water of the ocean. It is naturally produced in many parts of the worid of beneath the surface of the eartii, and flows out in Sal springs, or is pumped out for the use of salt mannfactories. Brine is also made artificially, for presen*chief ing meat, a little saltpetre being generally added to The the solution. It appears that there is some danger in using brine in this way, after it has been kept for scene some months. A communication was made to the Csesar Imperial Academy of Medicine in France upon this it subject, and the Council of Health in Paris, after it examining into it, recommended that 'in all cases brine preserved too long, or in contact with rancid meat, should not be employed except with the greatest comcare, and after it has been purified by skimming all the the scum which forms on the surface.' on a BRING-TO, to check the course of a ship, when Alexshe is advancing, by uranging the sails in such a manner that they shall counteract each other, and prevent her from moving forward or backward. In to be this situation she is said to lie to, having some of her this sails aback, to oppose the force of those which are full.