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the jasper kind, and usually green; at this rate it could not resembling the soft gall of the oak-leaf, called the oak 
be a stone of any great value, nor do we indeed find any apple. 
where that it was, except in Solinus. 
It is to be observed, that the ancients called a certain 
ointment by the name sagda, as well as this stone; this 
ointment was green, and probably the stone had its name 
from the resembling it in colour. This was a custom com¬ 
mon among the writers of early times; and they have the 
names of libanotis, myrrhites, stactacbates, and cromatites, 
from the resemblance which certain agates and jaspers had to 
the drugs, &c. in common use among them, 
SAGE of Jerusalem, in Botany; see Pulmonaria.— 
Sage, wild, or Wood Sage; see Teucrium.—Sag#, 
Indian wild, a species of LaNtana ; which see. 
SAGE-CHEESE, in Rural Economy, that sort of cheese 
which is made by means of an infusion of sage, so as to 
render it of different colours. 
Cheeses of this sort are made in many different ways, 
being sometimes coloured all through, at other times only in 
layers, and occasionally in a figured manner throughout the 
SAGE, s. [salvia, Lat.] A plant of which the school of whole, so as to have a curious appearance. 
Salernum thought so highly, that they left this verse :— SA'GELY, adv. Wisely; prudently.—Sober he seemde, 
“ Cur moriatur homo cui salvia crescit in horto?”—By the and very sagely sad. Spenser. —To whom our Savionr 
colour, figure, taste, and smell, we have as clear ideas of sagely thus replied. Milton. 
sage and hemlock, as we have of a circle. Locke. —Mar- 1 SAGENDAGO, a head branch of Hudson’s river. Its 
mouth is about 20 miles west of Fort Ann. 
SA'GENESS, s. Gravity; prudence.—In all good learn¬ 
ing, virtue, and sageness, they give other men example what 
thing they should do. Ascham. 
SAGENITE, in Mineralogy, a name given by Saussure, 
to the capillary crystals of utile. 
SAGGING, in Sea Language, is a term applied to the 
hull of a ship when, the middle part of her keel and bottom 
are so strained by the weight of her cargo, as to arch down- 
Milton. wards. This term is, therefore, opposed to hogging, which, 
when applied in a similar manner, means by a different sort 
Pone. stra ‘ n t° curve or arch upwards. In seamanship, sag¬ 
ging to leeward, signifies the movement by which a ship 
SAGE (Alain-Rene le), was born about the year 1677, makes considerable lee-way, or is driven far to leeward of 
at Ruys, in Brittany. He went early in life to Paris, with the course on which she apparently sails. It is generally ex- 
no other view than to gain a subsistence as a writer, and pressed of heavy sailing vessels, as opposed to keeping well 
first made himself known by a version of the Greek letters of to windward, or “ holding a good wind." 
Aristsenes. Having acquired a good knowledge of the Spa- SAGH, or Ipoly-Sagh, a small town of the north-west of 
nish language, and studied its.writers with critical care, he Hungary, and the chief place of the palatinate of Nagy- 
made its novels or romances the foundation of several works Hont, situated on the Ipoly; 22 miles north by-west of 
bled with sage the hard’ning cheese she press’d. Gay. 
SAGE, adj. [saggio, Ital.] Wise; grave; prudent. 
Tired limbs to rest, 
O matron sage, quoth she, I hither came. Spenser. 
SAGE, s. A philosopher; a man of gravity and wisdom. 
At his birth a star proclaims him come, 
And guides the eastern sages, who enquire 
His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold. 
Groves, where immortal sages taught, 
Where heavenly visions Plato fir’d. 
of the same class, and introduced the scenery and manners 
of Spain into others. His most popular work, and that 
which is known and read in every country of Europe, is the 
“ Aventures de Gil Bias de Santillane.” The manners and 
characters drawn in this work are extremely lively and 
amusing. It contains much wholesome instruction, and 
Waitzen, and 39 north of Buda. 
SAGH, a small town of the south-west of Hurgary; 
62 miles south of Presburg, and 22 south of Szombathely. 
SAGHALIEN, called also Oku Jess'O, or Upper Jesso, 
and by the natives Tchoka, a large island or peninsula, 
situated at the eastern extremity of Asia, immediately to the 
displays extensive knowledge of real life. From this work, Le north of the large island of Jesso or Matsmai. It is about 
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Sage derives his greatest fame ; but his “ Diable Boiteaux 
is very popular, though it is rather a series of characters and 
stories, than a proper novel. Le Sage was author of “ Nou- 
velles Aventures de Don Quicchotte,” and a novel, entitled 
“ Estawanille, ou le Garcjon de bonne Humeur.” He was 
also a dramatic writer, and the “ Crispin rival de son 
Maitre,” and “ Turcaret,” are said to contain scenes worthy 
of Moliere. Le Sage died in 1747: he had always borne 
an estimable character, and was so entertaining in conver. 
sation, that he was always surrounded in coffee-houses with 
an audience eager to listen to his sallies and anecdotes. His 
works prove that he thought very freely, nevertheless he is said 
450 miles in length from north to south, and from 40 to 130 
in breadth from east to west. It is separated from the 
continent by a narrow channel, called the channel of 
Tartary. It has become a subject of controversy among 
navigators, whether this channel extends along the whole 
western coast, thus forming Saghalien into an island, or 
whether there be an isthmus connecting it with Tartary, and 
thus rendering it a peninsula. D’Anville, in his maps, 
describes it sometimes one way and sometimes the other. 
Perouse was the first who carefully examined this question. 
He entered the channel of Tartary, but was obliged, by 
adverse winds and other circumstances, to quit it, before 
to have been extremely punctual in performing all the duties of examining its whole extent. On inquiring of the people at 
religion. He wrote with facility and purity, and his Gil Bias Saghalien itself, he was assured that it was an island, though 
is reckoned one of the best specimens of the French lan- separated from the continent only by a narrow strait. The 
guage. people of Tartary, on the other hand, asserted that Saghalien 
SAGE (David le), a French poet, was born at Mont- was connected with the continent by a narrow isthmus of 
pellier, and was author of a collection of sonnets, elegies, sand, covered with marine plants. The latter statement was 
satires, and epigrams, called “The Follies of Le Sage.” favoured by the circumstance, that the depth of the water 
He died about the year 1650. 
SAGE (John), a Scotch divine, was born in Fifeshire, in 
1652. He was educated at St. Andrew’s, and in 1684, was 
episcopally ordained. After the revolution, in 1688, he was 
much persecuted by the Presbyterian party. He died in 
1711. He was author of an able defence of episcopacy, 
entitled “ The Principles of the Cyprianic Age,” and some 
other works. 
SAGE-TREE, or Jerusalem Sage. SeePnLOMis. 
was observed constantly to diminish, and that no current was 
felt. Perouse, on the whole, was led to conclude that there 
was a strait, but so obstructed by sand and sea-weed, as to be 
scarcely passable. Captain Broughton, however, having 
penetrated twenty miles farther than La Perouse, came to a 
shallow bay, surrounded on every side by sands, which 
appeared to him to extend unbroken, so as to form a com¬ 
munication with the opposite continent. The same opinion 
was afterwards adopted by Krusenstem, the Russian 
SAGE-APPLES, a name given by naturalists to a sort of navigator. In confirmation of it, he observed, that in the 
soft gall, or protuberance, found frequently on the leaves and strait to the north of the river Saghalien, the water is rendered 
stalks of sage in the eastern parts of the world, and much almost fresh by the influx of the stream. Yet some 
geographers 
