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SASINA. See Sassena* 
SASLAVI, a small town of the west of European Russia, 
in the government of Volhynia. Population 5100; 96 miles 
west of Zytomiers, and 87 east of Brody, in Austrian Po¬ 
land 
SASMANSHAUSEN, a small town of Prussian West¬ 
phalia, in the county of Witgenstein, with large iron works. 
SASNEE, a town and fortress of Hindostan, province of 
Agra. This place was the residence of the zemindar, who, 
having proved refractory, soon after the British had acquired 
the province, was expelled, after a desperate resistance, in 
the year 1803. Lat. 27. 45. N. long. 78. 4. E. 
SASO, Sason, Sasonis, or Sasson, in Ancient Geo¬ 
graphy, an island of the Ionian Sea, towards the coast of 
Illyria, and encompassed with rocks and sand: thus Silius 
Italicus says of it: 
“ Adriatici fugite infaUstas Sassonis Arenas.” 
SASONES, a people of Scythia, who inhabited the ter¬ 
ritory on this side of the Iinaus, and south of the Massaei and 
Alani mountains, according to Ptolemy. 
SASPOS, a small river of the province of Buenos Ayres, 
which runs south, and then turns to enter the Uruguay. 
SASRAM, a small island in the gulf of Siam, near the 
coast of Cambodia. Lat. 10. N. long. 103. 48. E. 
SA'SSAFRAS, s. A tree. The wood is medicinal. See 
Laurus Sassafras. 
SASSAFRAS, a river of the United States, in Maryland, 
which runs west into the Chesapeak 5 6 miles south of Elk 
river. 
SASSAFRAS, a village of the United States, in Kent 
county, Maryland, near the head of the Sassafras; 17 miles 
south of Elkton. 
SASSANO, a town of Italy, in the west of the kingdom of 
Naples, in. the Principato Citra, with 3700 inhabitants. 
SASSARI, a large town of the island of Sardinia, near 
the north-west coast, the capital of the province of Capo di 
Sassari, and of the northern half of the island, as Cagliari is 
Of the southern. It stands on an elevated plain, is well built, 
surrounded with a wall, and is said to contain a population 
of 30,000. Its environs produce abundance of wine, 
oranges, lemons, and other fruit; also silk. They contain 
a number of shady walks, bordered with fountains, which 
are decorated with marble. The fountain called Rosello is 
said to rival the most magnificent of those of Rome. Sas- 
sari is the seat of the provincial government and courts of 
justice, as well as of an university, erected in 1775. Here 
are also several lesser seminaries. Sassari. is likewise the see 
of an archbishop, and contains an unusual number of 
churches and religious houses. The harbour called Porto 
Torre, is situated on the gulf of Sassari, about 10 miles from 
the town, and communicates with lit by means of a small 
river; 64 miles north of Oristano. Lat. 40. 48. N. long. 8 . 
45.-E. 
SASSRACH, a neat village in the west of Germany, in 
Baden, on the west side of the Black Forest. Near this place 
Marshal Turenne was killed by a cannon ball on 27th July, 
1675, and a monument was erected to his memory in 1781, 
by the cardinal de Rohan. Population 900; 17 miles east- 
by-north of Strasburg. 
SASSE, s. [set, Dutch.] A kind of sluice or lock, 
on navigable rivers. The word occurs in our okl statutes. 
SASSENA, or Sasina, a small island of European Tur¬ 
key, in the Adriatic, situated at the mouth of the bay of 
Avlona, and opposite to the town of that name. 
SASSENAGE, a small town in the south-east of France, 
in Dauphiny, department of the Isere, on the Furon. It 
has long been noted for its cheese, known by the name of 
cheese of Sassenage. Population 1300; 4 miles east of Gre¬ 
noble. 
SASSENBERG, a small town of Prussian Westphalia; 14 
miles east of Munster, and 28 south of Osnabruck. Popula¬ 
tion 1300. 
SASSENDORF, a village of Prussian Westphalia, in the 
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county of Mark, with a large salt-work; 15 miles north-by* 
east of Arensberg, and 16 east-by-north of Hamm. 
SASSENDORF. See Zastrup. 
SASSIN, or Sasvar, a small town of the north-west of 
Hungary; 33 miles north of Presburg. A very extensive 
cotton manufactory was erected here towards the end of last 
century, by a Vienna merchant. It employed at one time 
nearly 20,000 persons in different parts of the kingdom; but 
at present (1826) it is in a great measure abandoned. Lat. 
48. 37.50. N. long. 17. 7. 3. E. 
SASSOFERRATO, a small town of Italy, in the Pope¬ 
dom, in the duchy of Urbino ; 35 miles south-west of An¬ 
cona. 
SASSO-FERRATO (whose real name was Giovanni Batista 
Salvi), was a native of the territory of Urbino, and born in 
a castle, from whence he was named Sasso-ferrato, in 1605. 
He was the son of an obscure painter, who sent him, when 
young, to study at Rome. He afterwards visited Naples and 
other places; and having no great power of genius, amused 
himself by imitating in turn different masters. His compo¬ 
sitions were confined to Madonnas and Infants, and are, in 
general, but heavily executed. His most considerable work 
is an altar-piece, painted for the church of St. Sabina, at 
Rome, representing the Virgin and Child, with St. Catharine 
and St. Dominic. He died at Rome in 1685. 
SASSOLIN, in Mineralogy, concrete native boracic acid, 
so called from having been found on the banks of a hot 
spring at Sasso, near Sienna, in Italy. It is also found in 
some of the small lakes in Tuscany. Sassolin is composed 
of minute brilliant scales, of a pearly-white colour. The 
taste is slightly acid, and somewhat bitter: it is easily fu¬ 
sible by the blowpipe. It is also mixt with the soil that 
surrounds these lakes, and presents itself in the form of sta¬ 
lactites, soft and soapy to the touch. The white colour is 
sometimes spotted with yellow. The lakes which furnish 
this acid disengage an abundant quantity of gas with a 
hissing noise. The nature of the gas has not been ascer¬ 
tained. 
SASSOROLLA, in Ornithology, the name of a peculiar 
species of pigeon, the columba rupicola, or the rock pigeon. 
SASSOSO, a cape on the north coast of the island of Can- 
dia, anciently Promontorium Dion. Lat. 35. 26. N. long. 
24. 56. E. 
SASSUOLO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Modena, 
near the Secchia. In the neighbourhood is the hill of Zibio, 
remarkable for its wells of petroleum, and for a small aper¬ 
ture, which frequently throws out sulphureous smoke, flames, 
and mud, to a great height. Its great eruptions, which hap¬ 
pen not unfrequently, are attended with a loud noise, and 
with a shaking of the neighbouring ground. Population 
3100; 8 miles south of Modena. Lat. 44. 30. N. long. 10. 
54. E. 
SAS VAN GHENT, a small town and fort of the Ne¬ 
therlands, situated on a canal which leads from the city of 
Ghent to the Scheldt. It is provided with sluices, by means 
of which the country can be laid under water. Population 
1900; 10 miles north of Ghent,, and 25 west of Antwerp. 
SASVAR. See Sassin. 
SAT. The preterite of sit. 
The picture of fair Venus, that 
For which, men say, the goddess sat, 
Was lost, till Lely from your look 
Again that glorious image took. Waller. 
SATADOO, a country of Africa, forming one of three 
parts into which Bambouk is divided. It agrees with that 
territory in the considerable quantity of gold which is found 
in its soil and the sands of its rivers, and which is extracted 
by the uatives by the mere process of agitation in water. It 
extends chiefly along the eastern bank of the F’aleme, having 
Bambouk proper on the north, and Konkodoo on the south. 
It was formerly considerable, but has of late been much re¬ 
duced by the inroads of the Foulahs. 
SATAGURA, a small town of Austrian Galicia, in the 
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