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so urgent, that a subscription was raised to enable him to 
live in retirement in Wales. It was understood that he was 
now to quit, for ever, his town-haunts, and resign all far¬ 
ther pretensions to fame. This offer, made with those con¬ 
ditions, he seemed gladly to accept; but his intentions were 
only to delude his friends, by retiring for a time to write 
another tragedy, and return with it to London to bring it 
on the stage. 
Savage, after some time spent in Bristol, where he so 
much ingratiated himself with the principal inhabitants as 
to be treated by them with the greatest attention, arrived at 
Swansea. Here he spent about a year, employed in writing 
another tragedy on the story of Sir Thomas Overbury. 
From his great haughtiness and insolence of behaviour many 
of the subscribers to his support had withdrawn their sub¬ 
scriptions, and he resolved to return to the metropolis, and 
push again for fame. He left Wales, arrived once more at 
Bristol, where, at first, he was received with as much kind¬ 
ness as he had experienced before, but his irregularities and 
importunities at length tired out his admirers: he was no 
longer invited to their houses; and having contracted con¬ 
siderable debts he was thrown into prison. Here he found 
a friend in the keeper of the gaol, who softened the rigours 
of confinement by every indulgence in his power. He sup¬ 
ported him at his own table, gave him a commodious room 
to himself, allowed him not only to stand at the door, but 
frequently took him on little excursions into the surrounding 
country; so that in reality Savage endured fewer hardships 
in this place than he had usually suffered during the greater 
part of his life. While, however, he was in this place, he 
forgot all the kindness that he had experienced in that 
city, and employed his time in writing a bitter satire, entitled 
“ London and Bristol delineated,” in which he abused the 
inhabitants of the latter in such strains, as would lead a per¬ 
son to suppose he had received from them no other than the 
most injurious treatment. 
When Savage had remained about six months in confine¬ 
ment, he received a letter from Mr. Pope, who still continued 
to allow him 20/. a-year, containing a charge of very atro¬ 
cious ingratitude. He solemnly protested his innocence, but 
he was very unusually affected on the occasion, and in a few 
days was seized, with a nervous fever, under which he sunk, 
at the age of forty-six. 
Such was the life and such the death of Richard Savage, 
whose hard fate deserves compassion, though there is but 
little belonging to him either amiable or respectable. He 
was, however, generous to fellow-sufferers when he had any 
thing to give; and his equanimity under distress might extort 
some praise, had it not ever been attended with a total want 
of moral feelings. As a poet, his works may be considered 
as of an inferior cast; they long lay dispersed in magazines 
and fugitive publications, hut were afterwards admitted into 
Dr. Johnson’s collections, in order perhaps to introduce his 
fine life of the author. They have been since published in a 
separate-form, in two volumes, to which is prefixed that 
life; the writer of which, says Dr. Aik in, in the General 
Biography, would, it is presumed, “ have given a different 
estimate of the moral and literary merits of his subject had 
he judged of them at a later period, and without the partia¬ 
lity of an acquaintance.” 
SAVAGE CREEK, a small bay on the north-west coast 
of Newfoundland, near the western entrance of the bay of 
Mouco, and 20 leagues north-east of Cape Ferrol. 
SAVAGE ISLAND, an island in the South Pacific 
Ocean, about 33 miles in circumference, discovered by Cap¬ 
tain Cook, in the year 1774. The name was given on ac¬ 
count of ihe behaviour of the inhabitants, which was rude 
and inhospitable. Captain Cook says, the island is of a 
round form, and good height; and hath deep waters close to 
its shores. All the sea-coast, and as far inland as he could 
see, was wholly covered with trees, shrubs, &c., among 
which were some cocoa-nut trees; but what the interior 
parts may produce is yet unknown. The inhabitants are 
not numerous. They seemed to be stout, well made men, 
were naked, except round the waists, and some of them had 
s a v 
their faces, breasts, and thighs, painted black. The natives 
of this and of other islands in those seas, fish with lights by 
night, called tomais, made from the bark of the cocoa-nut 
tree. This bark, which every year grows up with the young 
stem as it rises from the old stock, separates from the new 
stem as it increases, like the husk from the fruit. These bark 
leaves, as they have been called, are of an aromatic unctuous 
nature, and rising from the tree to the length of two or three 
feet, serve very well, when bound together, to supply the 
place of a torch ; and on that account are carried to sea at 
night, as they prove an excellent decoy to attract the fish, 
which are then easily caught in a small net. Lat. 19. 1. S. 
long. 169. 37. W. 
SAVAGE ISLAND, Great, in Hudson’s Straits. Lat. 
62. 25. N. long. 70. W. High water, at full and change, 
at ten o’clock. 
SAVAGE ISLAND, Lower, in the same straits, has 
high water at full and change at nine o’clock. Lat. 61. 48. 
N. long. 66. 20. W. 
SAVAGE MOUNTAINS, mountains of North America, 
in Pennsylvania; 110 miles north-west of Philadelphia. 
SAVAGE POINT, Upper, on the north side of Hudson’s 
Straits, south-east of Cape Charles, and the north-west point 
of an inland up into the land, so as to form the island of. 
Good Fortune. 
SAVAGE RIVER, a river of the United States, in Mary¬ 
land, which runs into the Potomac. Lat. 39. 30. N. long. 
79. 8. W. 
SAVAGELY, adv. In a savage or barbarous manner. 
SAVA'GENESS, s. Barbarousness; cruelty; wildness. 
SAVA'GERY, s. Cruelty; barbarity. 
This is the bloodiest shame, 
The wildest savagery , the vilest stroke 
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage 
Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shafcspeare. 
Wild growth. 
Her fallow lees 
The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory, 
Doth root upon ; while that the coulter rusts 
That should deracinate such savagery. S/iakspeare. 
SAVALO, a settlement of South America, in the province 
of Darien, on the shore of a small river, near the coast of 
the Pacific Ocean. 
SAVAMEC, a town of Korassan, in Persia; 30 miles 
west ofZauzan. 
SAVAN LAKE, a lake of North America. Lat. 50. 30. 
N. long. 90. 15. W. 
SAVANAS, a river of Darien, which runs into the bay of 
Panama. 
SAVANILLA, a river of Quito, in the province of Quixos 
and Macas, which runs south, and unites itself with the Bom- 
basicaro, to enter Zamora bv the north part, in Lat. 4. 
3. S. 
SAV'ANNA, s. [Spanish, according to Bailey.] An open 
meadow without wood; pasture ground in America. 
Plains immense, 
And vast savanna's where the wand’ring eye 
Unfixt, is in a verdant ocean lost. Thomson. 
SAVANNAH, a bay at the east end of the island of An¬ 
tigua, near the south-east part of Green Island, on the south 
side, a little westward of Indian Creek. 
SAVANNAH, a river of the United States, which is 
formed by the union of the Tugeloo and Keowee. It sepa¬ 
rates South Carolina from Georgia, and runs south-east into 
the Atlantic. It is navigable for large vessels to the town of 
Savannah, 17 miles, and for boats of 100 feet keel to Au¬ 
gusta, which, by the course of the river, is 340 miles above 
Savannah. Just above Augusta there are falls: beyond these 
the river is navigable for boats to the junction of the Tuge- 
loo and Keowee. This river is liable to the most destructive 
inundations, during which it rises to the perpendicular 
height of from thirty to forty feet above its usual level. In 
1700, 
