SAN 



542 



SAO 



Sangir 



|| | East Point 



Santorini. Mowhee. < South Point 

 k^^y ^ ( West Point 



Morokinnee 

 Tnhoorowa 

 lianai South Point 

 Morotoi West Point 

 Woahoo Anchoring Place 

 Atooi Wymoa Bay 

 Oneeheow Anchoring Place 

 Oreehoua 

 Tahoora 



The manners and customs of the Sandwich islanders 

 have already been sufficiently described in our account 

 of the principal island OWHYHJEE, Vol. XVI. p. *183. 



SANGIR, an island in the eastern seas, about sixty- 

 three miles in average length, and twelve in breadth. 

 Taroona, the principal town, stands about the middle 

 of the west coast, in north latitude 3 28' and east Ion- 

 gitude 125 44'. The island abounds in cocoa nuts, 

 from which an oil is expressed. Spices also are ex- 

 ported to Magindanao. Sangir is encircled with forty- 

 six smaller islands. About the middle of a ridge of 

 high mountains in the south end of the island, is a lof- 

 ty mountain from which there was a volcanic eruption 

 in 1711. Population about 12,000. 



SANQUHAR, a royal burgh of Scotland in Dura- 

 fries-shire, is situated on the river Nith. It consists 

 chiefly of a single street about a mile in length. At 

 the head of the town stands the council-house with a 

 school house and prison connected with it. This ele- 

 gant building, designed by Mr. Adam, has a handsome 

 epire, and was presented to the burgh in 1734, by the 

 Duke of Queensberry. About half a mile south-east 

 of this stands the old castle of Sanquhar, once a build- 

 ing of considerable size and extent. Beside the parish 

 church, the east end of which is of very ancient archi- 

 tecture, there are places of worship for the United Se- 

 cession Church, and for the Baptists. Different 

 branches of the carpet manufacture are carried on here, 

 and the knitting of stockings is pursued to a small ex- 

 tent. This burgh unites with Dumfries, Annan, Kirk- 

 cudbright, and Lochmaben in sending a member to 

 Parliament. It is governed by a provost, three bailies, 

 a dean of guild, a treasurer, and eleven councillors. 

 Population about 2000. 



SANTA CRUZ. See TENERIFFE. 



SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA. See BUENOS AYRES, 

 Vol. IV. p. 48. 



SANTA CRUZ, or AGADIER. See MOROCCO, Vol. 

 XIV. p. 723. 



SANTA FE DE BOGOTA. A town of South Ame- 

 rica, and the principal town of New Granada, a divi- 

 sion of Spanish America. It is situated at the foot of 

 a steep mountain at the entrance of a fine and exten- 

 sive plain. Population about 40,000. West Long. 

 60 5' and North Lat. 3 58'. See GRANADA NEW, 

 Vol. X. p. 446. 



SANTIAGO. See CHILI, Vol. VI. p. 192 and 193. 



SANTIAGO. See IAGO ST. 



SANTORINI or ST. IRENE, anciently THERA and 

 CALISTA, is a rich and populous island in the Grecian 

 archipelago. It is about eight miles long, and has the 

 form of a crescent, containing within it the islands of 

 Thesaria and Aspronisi. The principal villages in the 

 island are Pyrgos, Apanomeria, Scauro, Emborio, and 

 Acroteri, besides many others of less note. The prin- 

 cipal productions of the island are barley, cotton, wax, 

 figs, and almonds. The principal revenue of the island 



is derived from wine, the best kind of which is called Santo* 

 the vino santo, which is preferred to the best Cypress 

 wine. The quantity of wine annually exported is ^j 5 *"' 

 reckoned at a million of okes. 



Santorini and the adjacent islets are of volcanic ori- 

 gin. After emerging from the bottom of the sea, it 

 was swallowed up in the year 237 B. C. The poorest 

 villages are merely a collection of caverns cut out of 

 the pumice stone with which the island is almost 

 wholly covered. The inhabitants elect their own ma- 

 gistrates, but they pay a tribute of L.I 1,000 annually 

 to the Porte. Sonnini makes the population of the 

 island 9000, and Olivier 12,000. East Long. 25 36'. 

 North Lat. 36 28'. See Sonnini's Travels, and Oli- 

 vier's Travels, &c. 



SANTOS, a seaport town of Brazil in the cap- 

 taincy of St. Paul'?. It has rather an unhealthy situa- 

 tion on a river or lagoon formed of various mountain 

 streams which intersect the land in every direction, and 

 unite a little above the town. The depth of the river 

 is about three or four fathoms. The harbour, which H 

 the strait between the island of St. Vincent and the 

 mainland, has a good anchorage. The place called the 

 narrows is defended by two forts. The river is navi- 

 gable about twenty miles up to Caberton. A great 

 intercourse is carried on between St. Paul's and the 

 port, several hundred mules often arriving in the day 

 loaded with the produce of the country, and returning 

 with iron, copper, salt, earthenware, and European 

 manufacture?. Sugar, coffee, rum, rice, indigo, man- 

 dioca, are exported to Rio Grande and the Spanish ter- 

 ritory, from which in return they receive hides and tal- 

 low which are exported to Europe. The population, 

 consisting chiefly of merchants, shopkeepers, and arti- 

 ficers, amounts to about 7000. West Long. 46 . 21'. 

 South Lat. 23 59^' S. 



SAONA, a West Indian island, situated near the 

 south-east end of St. Domingo, at the distance of only 

 half a league from Pt. Palmilla. It is about twenty 

 miles long, and six broad. It abounds in pigeons, and 

 in various terrestrial and aquatic birds, and contains 

 also many wild cattle. It was discovered by Colum- 

 bus in 1494. The Jesuits had formerly several settle- 

 ments and pasture lands upon it, but it is now unin- 

 habited. West Long. 69 42'. North Lat. 18 8'. 



SAONE UPPER, one of the eastern departments of 

 France, is bounded on the north by the department of 

 the Vosges, on the east by that of the Upper Rhine, on 

 the south by those of the Doubs and Jura, and on the 

 west by those of the Cote d'Or and Upper Marne. It 

 contains about 2500 square miles, and is about twenty- 

 six French leagues long, and seventeen broad. The 

 surface is hilly, and some branches of the Vosges moun- 

 tains pass across it. It is watered by the Saone, the 

 Oignon, the Drugeon, and the Amance. The soil, 

 though stony, is fertile, and its chief productions ave 

 corn, hemp, wine, fruit, wood, salt, iron, and coal, the 

 two last of which are the most important. Vesoul is the 

 capital of the department. The contributions in 1803 

 were 2,199.713 francs, and the expence of the state, 

 215,983. Population 312,000. 



SAONE and LOIRE, one of the eastern depart- 

 ments of France, is bounded on the north by the de- 

 partment of the Cote d'Or, on the east by that of the 

 Jura, on the south by those of the Ain and the Rhone 

 and Loire, and-on the west by those of the Allier and 

 the Nievre. It contains about 3500 square miles, and 

 is about thirty-four French leagues long, and twenty- 

 four broad. It is covered with mountains, hills, and 



