LIST OF LOCALITIES. 



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ROSSIA, V Russia. 



RUSSLAND, Get: ) 



RUPERT'S HOUSE. A fort, formerly 



on the south-east shore of Hudson's 



Bay. 

 RUPERT'S LAND. The territory in 



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British America, to the south and 

 south-east of Hudson's Bay. 



SAGHALIEN. A long, narrow island, 

 east of Mantchooria and separated 

 from it by the Gulf of Tartary. 



SAHARA. The immense desert occu- 

 pying the great part of northern 

 Africa. 



SALT LAKE CITY. The capital of 

 Utah, on the River Jordan, near 

 Great Salt Lake. 



SAMAR. One of the Philippine 

 Islands. 



SALWATTY. An island to the extreme 

 west of New Guinea, from which it 

 is separated by a narrow strait. 



SAMARCAND. On the Kohuk River, 

 in Bokhara, southern Turkistan ; 

 was one of the most noted cities of 

 Asia. 



SAMBEANG. A settlement near the 

 western coast of Borneo. 



SAMOA. One of the Shifter Islands, 

 north-east of the Friendly and Fiji 

 Islands. 



SANDAL- WOOD ISLAM >. An island 

 of Malaysia, south of Flores, south- 

 east of Java and Sumbawa, and 

 west of Timor. 



SAN DIEGO. The southernmost county 

 of California. One of the localities 

 of Lyccena Regia and Anthooharis 

 Cooperi. Its principal town bear- 

 ing the same name is on San Diego 

 Bay, on the west coast. 



SANDWICH ISLANDS. A group of 

 islands in the north-east of Poly- 

 nesia ; they comprise Oahu, the 

 residence of their king, Hawaii and 

 some smaller ones. 



SAN, } 



SANCTA, V Saint. 



SANTA. J 



SAN FRANCISCO. The capital of Cali- 

 fornia and the metropolis of the 



western United States of N. Am., is 

 situated on a neck of land on the 

 west coast. 



SAN SALVADOR. A state of Central 

 America, east of Guatemala, south 

 of Honduras, and with its south 

 bordering on the Pacific Ocean. 

 Bahia, a city of Brazil, is also some- 

 times called San Salvador. 



SANTA LUCIA. One of the Lesser 

 Antilles, directly south of the Island 

 of Martinique. 



SANTA MARTA. One of the northern 

 provinces of Columbia. The town 

 of Santa Marta is at the mouth of 

 the Magdalena River. 



SANTAREM. A town on the Amazon, 

 in Para District, northern Brazil. 



SARAWAK. North-western coast of 

 Borneo. One of the localities of the 

 splendid Ornithoptera Bronl;iaua. 



SARDINIA. The kingdom of Sardinia 

 the north-western part of Italy. 

 Also a large island in the Mediter- 

 ranean, south of Corsica and north- 

 west of Sicily. 



SAREPTA. The south-east deserts of 

 Russia. 



SAX.. I A kingdom of Germany, 



SAX< >NIA, V south of Prussia nnd north- 



SAXONY. j west of Austria. 



SCANDINAVIA. Sweden and Norway. 



SCHLARAFFEN-LAND. Utopia, Fools' 



Paradise. 



SCHWEITZ. Switzerland. 

 SCOTIA. Scotland. 

 SENEGAL, ^ The most western 

 SENEGAMBIA. /part of Africa, south 



of Great Desert and west of Soudan. 



SEPT., IN > th 



SEPTENTRIONALIS. j 



SERPA. A town on the Guadiana 



River, in southern Portugal. Also 



a town on the Upper Amazon, 



northern Brazil. 



SEYCHELLES, \ A cluster of 



SEYCHELLE ISLANDS, j small islands 



in the Indian Ocean, east of Zan- 



guebar, Africa, and north-east of 



Madagascar. 

 SHANGHAI. A city in the Kiang-Soo 



District, on the east coast of China. 



