the island St. Domingo, one of the first towns founded there by the Spaniards, 28 leagues from the capital. It is celebrated for the quantity of sugar made in it, and for its fine pastures, in which are bred infinite quantities of cattle.

SALVATIERRA, a city of the alcaldía mayor of Zelaya and bishopric of Mechoacán in Nueva España. It is of a mild temperature, surrounded by wards or small settlements, in which dwell 905 families of Indians and 300 of Spaniards, Mustees, and Mulattoes, occupied (the greater part of them) in the cultivation of the estates and farms of its jurisdiction. It has two convents of religious, the one of St. Francisco, the other of Barefooted Carmelites. It is very ferIt is very fertile and abundant in fruits and seeds, of which its commerce consists; as also in melons, which are esteemed the best in the kingdom. Although the territory is stony, it is rendered agreeable by a variety of farms and fruit gardens. Twelve leagues w. s. w. of, its capital, and 30 n. w. of Mexico.

SALUDA, a county of the province and colony of S. Carolina, one of those under the obligation of sending out a regiment of militia whenever the government may require.

SALUDE, a river of the province and colony of S. Carolina, which runs e. and enters the Santi.

[SALUT, Port, lies on the s. w. side of the 3. peninsula of the island of St. Domingo; about 14 leagues from Les Caves, as the road runs, and only seven in a straight line s. w. of that town.]

SAMA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Arica in Peru; where there is a creek, which serves as a place of shelter to fishermen's barks.

SAMABALETA, a river of the province and government of Santa Marta in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada. It rises s. of the town of S. Faustino, and enters the Lebrija.

SAMACA, a settlement of the corregimiento of Tunja, in the same kingdom as the former river. It is of a very cold climate; situate in the road which leads to Chiquinquirá, produces much wheat, maize, barley, papas, and other fruits of a cold soil, and contains 250 Indians, and more than 300 housekeepers. Two leagues from Tunja.

SAMAGALLI, a settlement of the province and government of Quixos and Macas in the kingdom of Quito; on the shore of the river Avenico, and n. of the capital Macas.

SAMAIPATA, a large and populous settle ment of the province and government of Santa

Cruz de la Sierra in Peru. It contains more than 600 Spanish souls, and is a league's distance from a lofty mountain, where there is a large building much the worse for age, and having the appear ance of what they called the Palace of the Incas. In this palace it is thought there is a great treasure secreted, ever since the Indian gentilism.

SAMAMBAYA, a settlement of the province and captainship of San Vicente in Brazil; between those of Pinsa and Morungaba,

SAMAN, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Asangaro in Peru.

SAMAN, a cape or point of land on the coast of the S. Sea, and province and corregimiento of Camaná in Peru, close to the creek of Laquiaca.

SAMAN, a large and fertile valley of the same province and corregimiento, between the coast of the S. Sea and the cordillera.

SAMAN, a port of the island of Cuba, on the n coast, between the point of Mulas and the port and river of Las Palmas.

SAMANA, Bay of, on the coast of St. Domingo, between Capes François and Engaño, near the which are some shoals of the same name, and on which, in 1724, was wrecked the lieutenant-general of marine Don Baltasar de Guevara, with two ships of 70 guns, called the Guadalupe and the Tolosa, which were bringing quicksilver to Vera Cruz.

[This large bay is at the e. end of the island of St. Domingo. It opens to the n. e. between Cape Samana (which is also called Cape Reson or Cape Grondeur) on the n. and Cape Raphael s.e. of the former, 20 miles apart. Its mean breadth is about 11 miles, and its length 39. Some mariners reckon Pointe d'Icaque, or Icaque Point, as the s. point of the bay, which comes after Cape Raphael, and is only 30 miles from the head of the bay, and lies in lat. 19°8′ n. and long. 69° 13′ w.

This bay offers a safe shelter to the stoutest squadrons. Lying to the windward of the island, it has the advantage over all the other places as a maritime post, which renders it capable of protecting the whole Gulf of Mexico, to which it is in reality a key. The entrance is difficult, and very narrow; because from the s. side of its opening runs a breaker, which advances in a point towards Port Banister, and between which and the n. coast nature has placed the rock or shallow, called the Rebels. This rock narrows the entrance, so that between it and the land, forming the n. side, in the interior of the bay, there is little more than 800 fathoms. Thus a battery on shore, and another on the rock, the

Rebels would, by their cross fire, completely defend the entrance against even the smallest vessels; and a battery on the other side of the Rebels would effectually prevent any vessel from entering between it and the breakers. Samana was taken by the English in November 1808. See OLD CAPE FRANÇOIS.]

SAMANA, a settlement of the island, in which is the former bay; situate at the e. head, on the shore.

SAMANA, a cape or point of land of the same island, between Capes Rezon and Cabron. SAMANA, a small island of the N. Sea, w. of that of Maquana.

SAMAPAMPA, a settlement of the province and government of Tucumán in Peru, of the district and jurisdiction of the city of Cordóba.

SAMAQUANTI, a river of the province and government of Choco in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada. It rises in the interior of the mountains, and enters the sea in the Gulf of Tacumari or Darien.

SAMARUNBU, a lake of the province and captainship of Rey in Brazil, near the coast, between this lake and the great lake of Los Patos.

SAMBA, GALERA DE, a point of the coast in the province and government of Cartagena in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, between that capital and the city of Santa Marta. In its vicinity are some shoals of the same name.

SAMBALAS, or SAMBALLAS. Some small islands of the N. Sea, in the province and government of Panama, and kingdom of Tierra Firme. They are many, and at unequal distances, being from the continent one, two, three, and four miles. They extend a great length, and form a pretty spectacle with the mountains and woods for evergreen. In the midst of them are some navigable channels, through the which vessels off the coast of the isthmus may pass, or lay at anchor well sheltered from all the winds. Thus these straits have ever been an asylum for pirates and smugglers. The islands in one direction are low, level, and sandy, and covered with trees and shell-fish of different sorts.

In some of the islands are fountains of very good water, and parts fit for careening vessels. The great channel passing between them and the isthmus is two miles wide, and in some parts four; and extends from the point of the same name as far as the Gulf of Darien and the coast; and on this are many ports and streams of sweet water. These islands are also called, Of Springer.

SAMBALAS, a cape or point on the same coast

of Panama, which takes its denomination from the former islands. It runs far into the sea, and on the e. side covers the bay called also of Sambalas, formed by the river of Concepcion, and closed in on the w. by the Point of Escribanos. It is of a low territory, and well covered with

trees.

SAMBALAS, the aforesaid bay, has in the middle a small island, which divides its entrance into two parts, and of which the part to the e. is best. In lat. 9° 59′ n.

[SAMBOROUGH, Cape and Island, on the s. coast of Nova Scotia, and w. of Chebucto Bay and Harbour, on which is a light-house for the direction of ships. High water at full and change at eight o'clock.]

SAMBRO, a small island near the s. coast of Nova Scotia or Acadia, between the cape of its name and the Port of Cathe or Butin.

SAMBRO, the aforesaid cape, is on the side of Port Prospect.

SAMBRO, a sand-bank, near the coast of the same province, opposite the former cape.

SAMBU, a settlement of the province and government of Darien, and kingdom of Tierra Firme; on the shore of the river of its name, near the coast of the S. Sea.

SAMBU, the aforesaid river, rises in the mountains of the s. coast, and enters the sea within the Gulf of S. Miguel, and at the back of the point of Garachine.

[SAMGANOODHA, or SAMNANOODHA, a harbour on the n. e. side of Oonalashka Island, on the n. w. coast of N. America, 10 miles e. of Egooshak Bay. Ships can lie here land-locked from all winds in seven, six, and four fathoms water. It abounds with hallibut, salmon, &c. Lat. 53° 55' w. Long. 166° 30′ 15′′w.]

[SAMILITAM, a river on the w. coast of New Mexico, 12 miles from Point Artela on one side, and six further to Copalita River. At its mouth is an Indian town, where a ship's company may find provisions and fresh water.]

SAMIRIA. See YANA.

SAMO, a small town of the province and government of S. Juan de los Llanos in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, on the shore of the river Amadea.

SAMO, a settlement of this name, with the addition of Alto, in the province and corregimiento of Coquimbo, and kingdom of Chile, at the source of the river Limari.

SAMO, another, with the addition of Baxo, in the same province and kingdom, on the shore of the river of its name.

SAMO, this river runs w. and enters the Limari. [SAMPTOWN, a village in Middlesex County, New Jersey, 24 miles n. e. of Quimbletown, and above 13 s. w. of Elizabethtown.] [SAMPSON, a county of Fayette District, N. Carolina; bounded n. by Johnson County, and s. by Bladen. It contains 6065 inhabitants, including 1183 slaves. The court-house, where a post-office is kept, is 22 miles from Fayetteville, 12 from Cross Roads, near Duplin court-house.] SAMPUES, a settlement of the province and government of Cartagena, in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada; situate in the Sabanas, and in the high road leading to the capital.

[SAMPUTA, a town of Mexico. See AN

GELOS.

[SAMBALLET Point, near the mouth of the LET river Darien, and n. w. of the Island of Pines. It is 12 miles e. of Port Scrivan.]

SANA, a province and corregimiento of Peru, in the bishopric of Truxillo; bounded e. by the province of Caxamarca ; n. e. by the same, in the district of Guambos; n. and n. w. by that of Piura, and w. by the S. Sea. Its length is 25 leagues from s. e. to n. w. and its width 14. It was in former times populous, and so abundant in vegetable productions that in the port of Cherrepe many vessels used to lade for Panamá, Guayaquil, Callao, and Chile, not to mention the articles which were carried into the internal provinces.

Its temperature is most benign, and in nothing differing from that of Truxillo. It is watered by four small rivers, of the which that furthest to the n. is called of La Leche. The second is that which passes through Lambayeque, and has a good bridge of wood. The third passes through Šaña; and the fourth, which runs s. is that which empties itself into the sea by Xequetepeque. They all change their names according to the different places through which they pass, and all have their origin from the serranias of Caxa

marca.

The vegetable productions of this province are many; since besides wheat, maize, rice, and other seeds, it has all kinds of fruits, cañafistola, large cocos, dates, and mameyes. Here are manufactories of barilla, which they here call lico, of which they make lye for washing; and they procure much tallow from the goats, which they buy in the province of Piura in order to fatten them in this; and of these animals they kill in the settlement of Lambayeque alone 60,000 yearly, making dressed leather of their skins, and forming from these articles a branch of commerce,

which occasions this to be one of the richest provinces of the kingdom.

It also trades in articles made of the finest cotton, such as mantles, napkins, and towels. The natives gather much tobacco, grapes, and sugar; and make mats from a slight weed which they here call petates. here call petates. It has no other than one port on its coast, and this is far from safe, and called Cherrepe; but it has a creek of the name of Pascamayo. The capital is Santiago de Miraflores, to which is commonly given the title of the province.

The other settlements of its jurisdiction are the following: Santa Lucia, Cherrepe,

Ferrenafe, Chiclayo,

San Juan de la Punta, San Ildefonso de Pu

Jayanca,

Pacora,

Morrope, Illimo, Mocupe, Guadalupe, San Joseph, Muchumi, Tucume,

eblo Nuevo,

San Pedro de Lloco, San Miguel de Pixce, Eten,

Monsefú,

SANA, a town, which was the capital of the former province, although its denomination is also Santiago de Miraflores; situate near the coast of the S. Sea, and on the shore of the river of its name. In 1685 it was sacked by the pirate Edward David, and from that time the greater part of its inhabitants went and established themselves in the settlement of Lambayeque. In 1728. it was nearly ruined by an inundation of the river; and the inhabitants looked upon it as a visitation from heaven, for their having sold to the cathedral of Lima the body of their archbishop, Santo Toribio Mogrovejo, who died here. It is of an excellent climate, and fertile territory. At present nothing remains of it but the convent of S. Francisco and the hospital of S. Juan de Dios, with some few noble but poor families. It is situate between the settlements of Lambayeque and Cherrepe. and Cherrepe. [In lat. 6° 52′ s. and long. 79° 35' 30" w.]

[SAN AUGUSTIN, DE LAS CUESAS, a village, in lat. 19° 18′ 37′′ n. and long. 99° 7' .} This village terminates, according to Humboldt, on the w. of the great valley of Mexico.]

[SAN AUGUSTIN. See AUGUSTIN SAN.] SANARE, SANTA ANA DE, a settlement of the province and government of Venezuela, in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, on the shore of the river Claro, which enters the Cojede e. of the

city of Tucuyo, in the road which leads from Guanare to Barquisimeto. It is a doctrinal establishment of Indians, and for these principally was it founded, who are tributary. It has also Spanish inhabitants and other casts, as well within the town as in the fields of its territory, and here they have crops of wheat and other grain; bounded e. by the settlement of Nuestra Señora de la Aparicion de la Corteza, of the vicarage of the town of Araure; w. by the settlement of Barbacoas, n. by the settlement of Cubiro, and s. with a declination to the o. by the settlement of Guarico, being nine leagues distant from the latter. Its population consists of 1809 Spaniards and people of colour, and 244 Indians. SANASCA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Aimaraes in Peru; annexed to the curacy of the settlement of Soraya.

SANATEPEC, a settlement of the province and alcaldía mayor of Chiapa in the kingdom of Guatemala.

[SANBORNTOWN, a township of New Hampshire, Strafford County; situate on the point of land at the confluence of Winnipisiogee and Pemigewasset Rivers. It was incorporated in 1760, and contains 1587 inhabitants. In this town is the appearance of an Indian fortress, consisting of five distinct walls, one within the other. Some pieces of baked earthenware have been found here, from which it is supposed that the Indians had learned the potter's art.]

SANBORONDON. See ZAMBORONDON. SANCHEZ, a town of the province and government of Cumaná; situate on the shore of the river Orinoco, opposite the mouth of the Manapire.

SANCHEZ, a settlement of the province and government of Tucumán, in the jurisdiction and district of the city of Cordoba, on the shore of the river Tercero.

SANCHEZ, another, with the dedicatory title of Santiago, in the province and government of Buenos Ayres; on the shore of the river Plata, and s. of the city of Corrientes.

SANCHEZ, a river of the province and kingdom of Tierra Firme, in the district and government of Portobello. It runs n. and enters the sea between this city and the Port of Naos.

SANCHO-PARDO, a shoal of rocks of the N. Sea, near the coast of the island of Cuba and the Cape San Antonio of that island.

[SANCOTY Head, the e. point of Nantucket Island, on the coast of Massachusetts. Lat. 41° 15' n. Long. 69° 58' w.]

[SANCTOS. See SANTOS.]

SANCUDO, a small settlement of Indians, reduced by the missions of the religious of St. Domingo, in the jurisdiction of the city of San Christóval, in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada; on the shores of the river Apure. It is of a very hot temperature, and its natives, who are few and of the nation of the Chinatos, are reputed throughout the kingdom as notorious sorcerers.

SANDE, a small river of the kingdom of Brazil. It rises between that of Taquanhua and that of Araguay, and after a small space enters the Tocantines.

SANDER, a settlement of the province and government of Jaen de Bracamoros in the kingdom of Quito.

[SANDGATE, a mountainous township of Bennington County, Vermont; 18 miles n. of Bennington. It contains 773 inhabitants.]

[SAND-HILL Bay, is on the n. side of the peninsula, at the s.e. end of the island of St. Christopher in the W. Indies.]

SANDIA, a settlement and capital of the province and corregimiento of Carabaya in Peru; on the shore of the river Amantata.

[SANDISFIELD, a hilly township in Berkshire County, separated from Litchfield County, in Connecticut, by the S. State line; 22 miles s. by e. of the shire-town. It was incorporated in 1762, and contains 1581 inhabitants.]

[SANDOWN, a township in Rockingham County, New Hampshire ; was taken from Kingston and incorporated in 1756, and contains 561 inhabitants.]

[SANDUSKY, a fort in the N. W. Territory; situate on the s. side of the bay of the same name, at the s. w. end of Lake Erie.]

[SANDUSKY Lake, or Bay, at the s. w. side of Lake Erie, is a gulf shaped like a shoe, and entered from the lake by a very short and narrow strait. Its length is 13 miles, its greatest breadth seven. From the n. w. part of this lake, there is a portage of only 14 miles to Portage River, a small river which runs into Lake Erie. The fort stands opposite to the gut. Lat. 41° 50′ n. Long. 82° 43'w.]

[SANDUSKY River, a navigable water of the N.W. Territory, which rises near a branch of the Great Miami, between which is a portage of nine miles. It pursues a n. e. course, and empties into the s. w. corner of Sandusky Lake. The Indians, by the treaty of peace at Greenville, August 3, 1795, have ceded to the United States a tract of land six miles square upon Sandusky Lake, where a fort formerly stood, and two miles square at the Lower Rapids of Sandusky River.

It is a considerable river, with level land on its bank, its stream gentle all the way to its mouth, where it is large enough to receive sloops.] [SANDWICH, a township in the n. part of Strafford County, New Hampshire; n. of Winnipisiogee Lake. It was incorporated in 1763, and contains 905 inhabitants.]

[SANDWICH, Massachusetts, a post-town at the bottom of Cape Cod, in Barnstable County. It extends the whole breadth of the cape, and is 18 miles s. e. of Plymouth, and about 45 s. of Boston. There is a little decent group of houses, on the e. side of the cape, and a pretty stream of water running through it. Incorporated 1639; inhabitants 1991. It is near the place where the proposed canal is to commence from Barnstable to Buzzard's Bay. The Indian town Kitteaumut, or Katamet, was situate on Buzzard's Bay; and Mannamit was the name of a place near the bottom of Buzzard's Bay. There is a place on the same bay, on Sandwich side, called Pokeset, usually called by the Indians Poughkeeste. It is the second parish in Sandwich. There is an Indian territory, called Herring Pond, in the neighbourhood of Sandwich, about five miles n. w. from this village, and so extending from thence along shore to Monument Ponds, all included within the township of Plymouth. It contains about 120 souls, one-half of whom are mixed. The Indian name of this territory is not generally known. They appear to have been considered as a distinct tribe, now known by the name of The Herring Pond Indians.]

[SANDWICH, NEW, a plantation in Lincoln County, district of Maine; containing 297 inhabitants.]

[SANDWICH Islands, a group of islands in the S. Sea, discovered by Captain Cook, who gave them the above name in honour of the Earl of Sandwich, under whose administration they were first visited. They consist of 11 islands, extending from lat. 18° 40′ to 24° n. and from long. 154° 50′ to 165°40' w. They are called by the natives Owhyhee, Mowee, Ranat, Morotinnee, Tahowrowa, Morotoi, Waohoo, Atooi, Neeheehow, Oreehoua, and Tahoora; all inhabited, except Morotinnee and Tahoora. Besides these, the natives speak of another, lying to the w. s.w. of Tahoora; which is low and sandy, and visited only for the purpose of catching turtle and seafowls. As they do not know of any others, it is probable that none exist in their neighbourhood.

An account of each inhabited island will be found in its proper place. The climate differs very little from that of the W. India islands in

the same latitude. the same latitude. Upon the whole, perhaps, it may be more temperate; nor are there any traces of those violent winds and hurricanes which render the stormy months in the W. Indies so dreadful. There is also more rain at the Sandwich Isles, where the mountainous parts being generally enveloped in a cloud, successive showers fall in the inland parts, with fine weather and a clear sky at the sea-shore. Hence it is, that few of those inconveniences to which many tropical countries are subject, either from heat or moisture, are experienced here. The winds in the winter months, are generally from e. s. e. to n. e. The tides are very regular, ebbing and flowing six hours each. The flood comes from the e. and it is high water at the full and change of the moon, 45 min. past three o'clock. Their greatest rise is two feet seven inches, and the water is always four inches higher when the moon is above the horizon than when she is below it. The vegetable productions are nearly the same as at the other islands in this ocean. The taro-root is of a superior quality. The breadfruit trees thrive not in such abundance as in the rich plains of Otaheite, but produce double the quantity of fruit. The sugar-canes are of a very unusual size, some of them measuring 114 inches in circumference, and having 14 feet eatable. There is also a root of a brown colour, shaped like a yam, and from six to 10 pounds in weight, the juice of which is very sweet, of a pleasant taste, and an excellent substitute for sugar.

The inhabitants are undoubtedly of the same race that possesses the islands s. of the equator; and in their persons, language, customs, and manners, approach nearer to the New Zealanders than to their less distant neighbours, either of the Society or Friendly Islands. They are in general above the middle size, and well made. They walk very gracefully, run nimbly, and are capa ble of bearing very great fatigue; although, upon the whole, the men are somewhat inferior, in point of strength and activity, to the Friendly Islanders, and the women less delicately formed than those of Otaheite. Their complexion is rather darker than that of the Otaheitans, and they are not altogether so handsome a people. However many of both sexes have fine open countenances; the women in particular have good eyes and teeth, with a sweetness and sensibility of look, that render them very engaging. Their hair is of a brownish black; neither uniformly straight, like that of the American Indians; nor uniformly curling, as among the Negroes of Africa. There is one peculiar characteristic of