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put an end to this inhuman practice. The island is not 
inhabited, but the Brahmins repair at the appointed season to 
the temple, and are followed by the pilgrims. A society in 
Calcutta has lately taken a lease of this island from the East 
India Company, and has engaged to clear and bring it into a 
state, of cultivation in a few years. This step will be attended 
w ith great advantages, as all large vessels are obliged to take 
in the latter part of their cargoes,at this place, and the 
anchorage is much healthier here than in the river. This 
measure was proposed during Mr. Hastings’ government, but 
the British were not then sufficiently masters of the sea, to 
render it a prudential scheme; and whether it may prove so 
now is a little hypothetical. Its south point is in Lat. 21. 
34. N. long. 88. 20. E. 
SAGOUIN, in Zoology, the name of a very beautiful 
small species of monkey, described by Clusius, and seeming 
the samewith the cagui minor of Marcgrave, and the simia 
jacchus of Linnaeus. 
Clusius says it is of the size of a squirrel, and has the look 
of a lion about the head, and that it is a very tender and 
delicate little animal, and impatient of the slightest injury. 
SAGREDO (Giovanni), a noble Venetian, and a 
writer of history. He was procurator of St. Mark, and 
in the year 1675 was elected doge; but finding the election 
not agreeable to the people, he voluntarily resigned his 
office. He was employed as ambassador to various courts, 
and in 1691 was appointed proveditor-general of the 
Levant seas. Sagredo published at Venice, in 1677, a 
history of the Ottoman empire, under the title “ Memorie 
Istoriche de’ Monarchi Ottomani," beginning with the year 
1300, and coming down to 1644. It is written with con¬ 
ciseness, after the manner of Tacitus, is interspersed with 
political reflections, and bears the character of impartiality 
and accuracy. It has been translated into the French lan¬ 
guage, in 6 vols. 12mo. Sagredo wrote a continuation of 
his work, relating chiefly to the war in Candia, which has 
not been published. 
SAGREE, in Ichthyology. See Galeus Spinax. 
SAGRES, a petty town of Portugal, at the southern 
extremity of the province of Algarva, a little to the east of 
Cape St. Vincent. It has a harbour, where prince Henry, 
the great promoter of maritime discovery in Portugal, in the 
15th century, used to pass a great part of his time; 17 miles 
west-south-west of Lagos, and 116 south of Lisbon. Lat. 37. 
0. N. long. 9. 0. W. 
SAGRUJE, a town of Great Bukharia; 15 miles north-east 
of Samarcand. 
SAGRUS, Sagro, in Ancient Geography, a river of 
Italy, in Samnium, the source of which was in the moun¬ 
tains of the Marsi. 
SAGUA ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands in the 
Spanish Main, near the coast of America, about 15 miles 
from the isthmus of Darien. Lat. 9.18. N. long. 78. 4. W. 
SAGUANA, a bay in the north-east corner of the gulf of 
Mexico, on the coast of Florida, having numerous isles on 
both sides; Cayos del Pagoi on the south-east, and Farellon 
de Pagoi on the north-westward. 
SAGUARIPA, a small river of Brazil, in the province of 
Todos Santos, which runs east, and enters the sea.—Also the 
name of a settlement of Mexico, in the province of Hiaqui. 
SAGUENAY, a large river of Canada, which, after a 
course of about 100 miles, flows into the river St. Lawrence, 
on the west bank, at the town and harbour of Tadousac. It 
draws its source from Lake St.John, a collection of waters 
of considerable expanse, lying in 48. 20. of north latitude, 
and 72. 30. of west longitude, receiving many large rivers 
that flow from the north and north-west, from an immense 
distance in the interior, of which the Pickouagamis, the 
Sable river, and the Pariboaca, are the principal ones. The 
banks of this river throughout its course are very rocky, and 
immensely high, varying from one hundred and seventy 
even to three hundred and forty yards above the stream. Its 
current is broad, deep, and uncommonly vehement. In 
some places, where precipices intervene, there are falls from 
fifty to sixty feet in height, down which the whole volume 
of the stream rushes with indescribable fury and tremendous 
noise. The general breadth of the river is from two miles 
and a half to three miles, but at its mouth this distance is 
contracted to about one mile. The depth of this enormous 
stream is also extraordinary. At its discharge, attempts 
have been made to find the bottom with five hundred 
fathoms of line, but without effect. About two miles higher 
up, it has been repeatedly sounded from one hundred and 
thirty to one hundred and forty fathoms; and from sixty to 
seventy miles from the St. Lawrence, its depth is found from 
fifty to sixty fathoms. The course of the river, notwithstand¬ 
ing its magnitude, is very sinuous, owing to many project¬ 
ing points from each shore. The tide runs about seventy 
miles up it, and on account of the obstructions occasioned 
by the numerous promontories, the ebb is much later 
than in the St, Lawrence; in consequence of which at 
low water in the latter, the force of the descending stream of 
the Saguenay is felt for several miles. Just within the mouth 
of the river, opposite to Pointe aux Allouettes, is ,the harbour 
of Tadousac, which is very well sheltered by the surrounding 
high lands, and has good anchorage for a great number of 
vessels of large size, where they may lie in perfect safety. 
On the northern shore of the St. Lawrence, and at many 
places on the Saguenay, there are stations for trading with 
the Indians in peltry, and for carrying on the whale, seal, 
porpoise, and salmon fishery. 
SAGUENAY RIVER, Little, a river of Labrador, 
which runs southward, and empties into the St. Lawrence a 
short way eastward of the Seven Isles, and westward of Bason 
river. Lat. 50. 18. N. long. 65. 0. W. 
SAGUERE, a village of the kingdom of Hoval, in West- * 
em Africa; 40 miles south-west of Ender. 
SAGULUM, among the Romans, a little or short 
sagum. 
SAGUM, a military garment worn by the Greeks, 
Romans, and Gauls, in manner of a cloak or cassock ; 
covering the shoulders or back as low as the hips; where 
it was fastened to the cuirass. > 
It was usually made of coarse wool, and square. They 
had one for the winter, and another lighter for summer. s 
SAGUNTUS, or Saguntum, (Morviedro), a very 
ancient town of Hispania Citerior, south-east of Edeta, 
three miles from the sea. By those who ascend to fabulous 
times, the origin of this town is ascribed to Hercules. Ac¬ 
cording to Strabo, it was founded by the Zacythians; 
and it is said that the Rutuli sent hither a colony from the 
town of Ardea. At length it became one of the most con¬ 
siderable towns in Spain. It acquired, says Livy, immense 
riches, partly from its commerce both by land and sea, 
and partly from its just laws and excellent police. Sa¬ 
guntum was under the protection of the Romans, if not 
numbered amongst its allies; and by a treaty made between 
these people and the Carthaginians, these latter were al¬ 
lowed to carry their arms as far as the Iberus: this city was 
excepted. In the year of Rome 528, Hannibal commenced 
his hostilities by the siege of Saguntum; and when the as¬ 
sailed could no longer defend themselves, the principal in¬ 
habitants precipitated themselves, with their most precious 
effects, into a kind of funeral pile, prepared and set on fire 
for this purpose ; upon which the surviving Saguntines were 
massacred in the most cruel manner. The city, thus re¬ 
duced to the most deplorable state of distress, remained under 
the dominion of the Carthaginians; till in the year of Rome 
538, Scipio, having humbled the power of Carthage in 
Spam, in process of time recovered Saguntum, and made 
it, as Pliny says, a new city. By the Romans it was treated 
with every kind of distinction; but at some period, not ascer¬ 
tained by historians, it was reduced to ruins. Its long re¬ 
sistance to the power of Hannibal is recorded on many 
medals, which bear the inscription of “ invicta.” Polybius 
relates that near this city was a temple of Venus, in which 
Cnaeus and Publius Scipio encamped in their march against 
the Carthaginians. 
SAGUR, a town of Hindostan, and capital of a district of 
the same name, province of Malwah, belonging to the Mah-. 
rattas.' It is situated near the Bimnass river. Lat. 23. 45. 
N. long. 78. 53. E. 
SAGUS, 
