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however, the subject of raillery, and the manner of his death 
affords a proof of the liberties that were taken with him. 
Having accompanied the duke of Bourbon to Dijon at the 
assembly of the states of Burgundy, some inconsiderate per¬ 
son, in the way of a joke, cast a quantity of snuff into his 
wine, which, as soon as he had swallowed, threw him into 
great agonies, that put a period to his life in 14 hours. He 
died in 1697, at the age of 67. In his last moments a page 
came to him and announced a message from his highness the 
duke of Bourbon, upon which he exclaimed, “ Tu solus al- 
tissimus,” raising his eyes to heaven. He is thought to have 
displayed more of the true poet than most of those who 
have distinguished themselves by modern Latin verse. Of 
his works a complete edition was published in three vols. 
12mo. at Paris, 1729. 
SANTEUL (Claude), elder brother of the preceding, an 
ecclesiastic in the seminary of St. Magloire, at Paris, was 
also an eminent Latin poet. He was as gentle in manners 
as his brother was impetuous. He died in 1684, at the 
age of 57. 
SANTIA, a town of the north-west of Italy, in Piedmont, 
containing 2900 inhabitants, and carrying on a brisk traffic : 
28 miles north-east of Turin. 
SANTIAGO. See Jago. 
SANTIAGO, r. river of the Caraccas, in the province of 
Cumana, which runs into the Manapire. 
SANTILLANA, a small town of the north of Spain, in the 
district called Las Montanas, or the mountains of Santander. 
It contains 1600 inhabitants, and has a large and fertile ter¬ 
ritory ; 14 miles west-south-west of Santandar, and 92 east 
by north of Oviedo. 
SANTILLIEN, a small town of the south of France, in 
the department of the Ardeche. Population 2100. 
SANTIPONCE, or Santiponte, a village of Spain, on 
the right bank of the Guadiana. It occupies part of the site 
of the ancient Italica, a celebrated city under the Romans, 
and the birth-place of the Emperor Trajan. Here are still 
some antiquities, particularly an amphitheatre, capable of 
containing 10,000 spectators, which, though injured by an 
earthquake, is still in such preservation as to show its original 
size and construction. The ruins of the city may be traced 
to a great extent; 4 miles north-north west of Seville. 
SANTIPORE, a town of Bengal, district of Kishenagur. 
It is situated on a sandy soil, about 2 miles east of the Bha- 
gurutty river. The East India Company have here a cele¬ 
brated factory for the purchase of muslins, saunahs, sugar, 
and rum, under the superintendance of one of their civil ser¬ 
vants. It is esteemed one of the healthiest places in Bengal. 
Lat. 23. 13. N. long. 28. 34. E.—There is another place of 
the same name in the province of Allahabad. 
SANTI VANES, a small town of the north of Spain, in the 
province of Burgos, remarkable only for a large pin-manu¬ 
factory ; 7 miles north-north-west of Burgos. 
SANTO STEFANO, a small port on the north side of the 
Ionian island of Corfu, frequented by small vessels. 
SANTOLINA [Dimin. q. sanctolina. Holy herb; so 
named on account of its supposed medical qualities], in 
Botany, a genus of the class syngenesia, order polygamia 
requalis, natural order of composite discoidese, corymbiferse 
(Juss .)—Generic Character. Calyx: common hemisphe¬ 
rical, imbricate: scales ovate-oblong, acute, pressed close. 
Corolla: compound uniform, longer than the calyx. Co- 
rollets hermaphrodite, equal, numerous; proper one petalled, 
funnel-form: border five cleft, revolute. Stamina: filaments 
five, capillary, very short. Anther cylindrical, tubulous. 
Pistil: germ four-cornered, oblong. Style filiform, length 
of the stamens. Stigmas two, oblong, depressed, truncate. 
Pericarp: none. Calyx unchanged. Seeds: solitary, ob¬ 
long, four-cornered. Down none. Receptacle chaffy, 
flattish: chaffs concave,—Santolina Alpina differs in having 
no female florets .—Essential Character. Calyx imbricate, 
hemispherical. Down none. Receptacle chaffy. 
1. Santolina chamsecyparissus, or common lavender-cotton. 
—Common lavender-cotton has a shrubby stalk, dividing into 
many woody branches; with slender hoary leaves, indented 
four ways, and having a rank strong odour when handled. 
The branches divide towards the top into several slender 
stalks, the lower parts of which have a few small leaves of 
the same shape as the others, but naked above, and termi¬ 
nated by a single flower, composed of sulphur-coloured 
fistular florets, without any ray.—Native of the South of 
Europe; as Spain and Italy. 
There are three varieties.—Lavender-cotton is acrid, bitter, 
and aromatic; and has much the same qualities as southern¬ 
wood. 
2. Santolina rosmarinifolia, or rosemary-leaved lavender- 
cotton.—Peduncles one-flowered, leaves linear, tubercled at 
the edge. This plaut is herbaceous, scarcely suffruticose.— 
Native of Spain. 
3. Santolina fragrantissima, or sweet-smelling lavender- 
cotton.—Flowers corymbed, leaves ovate, crenulate—Stem 
hoary, with alternate branches. 
4. Santolina Alpina, or Alpine lavender-cotton.—Pedun¬ 
cles one-flowered, leaves bipinnate, stems simple.—The 
flowers are without any female florets. It is herbaceous.— 
Native of Tuscany. Flowering in June. 
5. Santolina anthemoides, or chamomile-leaved lavender- 
cotton.—Peduncles one-flowered, leaves bipinnate, stem very 
much branched, and villose.—This plant is a palm in height. 
—Native of Spain, Italy, and Siberia. 
6 . Santolina maritima, or sea-lavender cotton.—Peduncles 
corymbed, leaves oblong, blunt, creriate, densely woolly. 
Propagation and Culture. —These are hardy plants, which 
will thrive in the open air; a poor dry soil suits them best. 
They may be cultivated so as to become ornaments to a 
garden, particularly among evergreen shrubs. They may 
be propagated by planting slips or cuttings during the spring, 
in a border of light fresh earth, watering and shading them 
in dry weather until they have taken root; after which they 
will require no farther care. 
SANTO'N, s. [Santoun, old Fr. petit soint.] One of 
the Turkish priests ; a kind of dervis, regarded by the vul¬ 
gar as a saint. Laconibe. —The dervis and other santoons or 
enthusiasticks, being in the crowd, express their zeal by turn¬ 
ing round so long together, and with such swiftness, as will 
hardly be credited. Sir T. Herbert. 
SANTON, a village of England, in Cumberland, near 
Egremont. 
SANTON DOWNHAM, a village of England, in Suffolk, 
on the banks of the Ouse ; 2 miles from Brandon. 
SANTONA, a harbour in the north of Spain, on the coast 
of the district called Las Montanas; 18 miles east of San¬ 
tander, and 4 west-north-west of Laxedo. The entrance 
from the sea is easy, and the basin of sufficient depth to 
admit ships of the first rate. It was, however, neglected till 
the late war in Spain, when the French occupied the adjoin¬ 
ing village and fort, and defended them in 1813, with a con¬ 
siderable garrison. 
SANTONGA, a river on the eastern coast of Madagascar, 
which falls into the sea. Lat. 18. 55. N. 
SANTORINI, S.antorin, St. Erini, or St. Irene, 
formerly “ Thera,” and more anciently “ Callista,” signi¬ 
fying “ the handsome,” and deriving its present name from 
“ St. Irene,” to whom it was dedicated under the emperors 
of the east, is, in proportion to its extent, the richest and most 
populous of all the islands of the Archipelago. Emerged 
from the bottom of the sea, it was afterwards partly swallowed 
up in the year 237, B. C. and separated from Therasia, a 
small island now called “ Aspronisi.” The space contained 
between these two islands, and at present filled up by the 
sea, made, as it is supposed, a part of the island of Thera, or 
of the large island, which, at the time of this revolution, 
assumed the form of a crescent. Indeed, the coast of that 
gulf, composed of steep rocks, black, calcined, and towering 
upwards of 300 feet above the level of the sea, appears to be 
the edge of an enormous crater, the bottom of which has 
never bpen fathomed. 
Olivier observes, that if we reflect on the considerable 
changes 
