SALSETTE (native -.lame Stidtti), an island on the w. coast of British India. in the presidency of Bombay, lies immediately n. of Bombay, with which it is connected long peninsula, ond by an artificial embankment called Zion's causeway. It is 18 in. long, and II m. in extreme breadth. Pop. about 50.000. It is beautiful, picturesque, and densely wooded, is diversified by mountain and hill, and contains many fertile tracts. Sugar, indigo, cotton, flax, and hemp are grown. Thanah, the chief town, stands on the e. coast, 20 in. n.n.w. of Bombay by the Great Indian Peninsular railway, which, after traversing the islands of Bombay and Salsetto, crosses to the coninent half a mile to the s. of this town. Pop. about 12,000. A number of remarkable caves, called the caves of Ktinhari or Kenery, are found in the middle of the island, 5 m.w. of Thanall. They are nearly a hundred in number, are all excavated in the face of a single hill, and contain elaborate carving. The caves are in six stories, on the ledges of the Mountain,
and the stories are connected by stairs cut in the rock, The cave first approached con sists of three chambers, one unfinished, and dates from the 0th or 10th c. A.D.; it con tains no figures or carvings. The other caves contain numerous carved representations of Buddha, many of them of colossal size. Relics and inscriptions are also found. There are caves in several localitiesof the island besides those at kanhari—e.g., those of Mont pezir, Alagatani, and Jageshwar. The caves are frequently the haunts of serpents and tigers. On the D., on the coast, is the small watering-place of Glio•i, Bandar, ivhich has been designated the Montpelier of Bombay. The fort of Thanah and the island of Sal sette were taken by the English in 1774.