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editions, and in the 16th century sixty editions had appeared. 
He was author, likewise, of sonnets and lyrical pieces, of 
which the best editions are those by Comino, in 1723, and 
by Remondini, in 1752. The Latin poems of Sannazaro 
are highly commended for the finished elegance of their 
style and versification: they consist of piscatory eclogues, 
elegies, epigrams, and a sacred poem “ De Partu Virginis.” 
This last piece consists of 1500 lines, containing many fine 
passages, and exhibiting great command of the Latin lan¬ 
guage, in adapting it to such a subject. Erasmus has justly 
censured the poet for his invocation of the muses and Phoe¬ 
bus; for his representing the Virgin as intent upon the 
Sybilline verses, instead of the Jewish prophecies; and for 
the general air of heathenism given to the whole work. 
Roscoe's Leo X. 
SANNERTS, a village of Germany, in Hesse-Cassel; 14 
miles south of Fulda. Population 1000. 
SANNI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Asia, near the 
Lesser Armenia, and near Trebizond and Pharnacia. Strabo. 
SANOK, a circle of Austrian Galicia, on the borders of 
Hungary, between the circles of Jaslo and Sambor. Its area 
is about 1800 square miles; its population 211,000. The 
San traverses this circle in a very winding direction, but in 
general from south to north. Its course being slow, its na¬ 
vigation is easy, and its occasional inundations contribute 
to improve the fertility of the soil. The Wisloka and several 
smaller streams cross the circle in a similar direction. The 
surface of this province is level, except towards Hungary, 
where it becomes hilly. Salt mines are found at several places. 
SANOK, a small town of Austrian Galicia, on the San; 
104 miles east-south-east of Cracow. It is the chief town of 
a circle, and has a high school. Population 1600. 
SANORE. See Shahnoor. 
SAN QUEL, one of the largest rivers of Patagonia, in 
South America, which has its rise in the snowy nountains 
of the Cordillera, on the east side, of which it is one of the 
principal drains. It derives its name from a thorny, thick, 
and rough reed, called sanquel, in the idiom of the Pehu- 
enches, with which the marshy country between this river 
and the first Desaguero abounds. It is not formed in the 
marshes, but rushing from between the deep chasms of the 
mountains, passes through them, and is augmented by their 
waters. It makes its first appearance at a place called Dia¬ 
mante, whence the Spaniards sometimes call it the Rio del 
Diamente. The river Lolgen, which also comes from the 
Cordillera, and joins the Sanquel, has such equal preten¬ 
sions in point of magnitude, that the Indians indifferently 
call their joint streams the Sanquel and the Lolgen Leuvu. 
Broad and rapid from the first, it is greatly increased by the 
moist country through which it runs, for the space of 300 
miles; and taking almost a direct south-easterly course, it 
enters into the Rio Negro by a very wide and open mouth, 
occasioning by the influence, dangerous and innumerable 
whirlpools. 
SANQUHAR, a parish of Scotland, in Dumfries-shire, 
of an irregular figure, 15 miles in length, and from 9 to 10 
in breadth. It contains mines of lead and coal. The pro¬ 
duce of the former is upwards of £20,000 annually; of the 
latter, £6000. Population, including the town, 2709. 
SANQUHAR, a royal burgh of Scotland, in the county 
of Dumfries. It is seated on the river Nith, and is 27 miles 
from Dumfries in the southern, and ,33 from Ayr in the 
western direction, being both ways nearly equidistant from 
the sea. It has only one principal street, and is about half 
a mile in length. Near the head of the town stands the 
town or council-house, with a school-house and prison con¬ 
nected. This handsome building, with a beautiful spire, 
was built under the plan and design of Mr. Adam, and given 
as a present to the town by the late Charles, Duke of Queens- 
berry, in the year 1734. In the year 1774, an excellent 
town clock was in like manner given as a present to the 
town, by the same public spirited nobleman : it stands in 
the council-house, and is both useful and ornamental. 
About half a mile south-east from the council-house, on an 
eminence, stands the old castle of Sanquhar, once the resi- 
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dence of the family of Crichton. It has been a building 
of considerable magnitude and extent, with towers, and sur¬ 
rounded by a deep fosse. It was in the possession of the 
English in the reign of Edward I., but was recaptured by 
Sir William Douglas, of Douglasdale, who put the garrison 
to the sword. The east end of the parish church of San¬ 
quhar is supposed to have been built by the Piets. It ap¬ 
pears to be of remote antiquity, and to have been a place of 
worship in the times of Popery, as the choir is still entire. 
There is a figure of a man as large as life near the entrance 
to it, cut out in stone, which vulgar tradition calls the Saint 
of the Choir. Besides the parish church, there are two 
meeting-houses for the United Secession church, and one 
for Baptists. The knitting of stockings was formerly carried 
on to a considerable extent in Sanquhar, but this branch of 
industry received a great check from the American war, the 
stockings being chiefly exported to Virginia. Different 
branches of carpet manufacture are carried on here, though 
not to the extent that might be supposed from the situation 
of the town, almost in the centre of a country, the staple 
commodities of which are sheep and wool; touching the 
head of Galloway on the one hand, bordering on Ayr¬ 
shire, the head of Clydesdale, and contiguous to Annandale 
and Tweedale on the other. Sanquhar was erected into a 
burgh or barony in 1484, prior to which period it had been 
a burgh of the same kind from time immemorial. At the 
instance of Robert Crichton, Lord of Sanquhar, it was 
erected into a royalty in 1596, by king James VI. It is go¬ 
verned by a provost, three baillies, a dean of guild, a trea¬ 
surer, and 11 councillors. The revenue of the burgh for a 
number of years past, has been very considerable, arising 
from a lordship upon coal: some years it has amounted to 
£400 sterling. It joins with the burghs of Dumfries, An¬ 
nan, Kirkcudbright, and Lochmaben, in electing a repre¬ 
sentative to Parliament. Population nearly 2000 ; 16 miles 
south of Muirkirk, 33 south of Kilmarnock, 57 south of 
Glasgow, 13 north-west of Thornhill, and 56 from Edin¬ 
burgh. 
SANS, prep. [Fr.] Without. Out of use. 
Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange eventful history. 
Is second childishness and mere oblivion, 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. 
S/iatispeare. 
SANSA, a small river of New Granada, in the province 
of San Juan de los Llanos, which runs east, and enters the 
Ariari. 
SANSANDING, a large town of Bambarra, in Central 
Africa. It is situated on the Niger, and is the theatre of a 
very considerable trade, particularly in salt. The arrange¬ 
ments made here for the convenience of trade, and the mi¬ 
nute subdivision of labour, exhibit a maturity of commercial 
improvement, such as we could little have expected to find 
in the heart of Africa. The market-place is an extensive 
square, constantly crowded with people, and where the.dif¬ 
ferent articles are exposed on stalls, shaded by mats from the 
heat of the sun. Each stall contains generally only one 
article; some beads only; some indigo in balls; others 
wood-ashes in balls; others Uoussa and Jinnie cloth; and 
one was observed on which there was nothing but antimony 
in small pieces. The currency is in cowries, 3000 of which 
go to a monkalli of gold, valued at 12s. 6d. sterling; 25 miles 
north-east ofSego. 
SA'NSCRIT, s. [Written sanserif, Sanskrit, sanskreet, 
sanskerrit, and shanscrit, by Europeans; and said to be 
compounded of san or sam, a preposition signifying com¬ 
pletion, and skreeta, for kreeta, done, made, finished. See 
Wilkins's Heetopades, 1787, p. 294. The Indians write it 
samskrit, samskret, somscrudam, or samscred, as we learn 
from the voyage of Paolino to the East Indies, where he re¬ 
sided several years, till 1789.] The learned language of the 
Bramins of India; the parent of all the Indian languages.— 
One Burzuvia, a physician, who had a surprising talent in 
learning several languages, particularly the sanskerrit, was 
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