SANEG, reach of cavernous coast in north-west of Islay Island, Argyleshire.
SANNES.
SANNOX, stupendous glen, two burns, and small seaport in north-east of Arran Island, Buteshire.
SANQUHAR, town and parish in Upper Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire. The town stands on the Nith, 26J miles north-north-west of Dumfries ; sprang from an ancient strong historical castle ; is notable for the 'Sanquhar Declaration' promulgated at it in 1680 by the extreme Covenanters ; figures in a poem of Burns as ' Black Joan frae Crichton Peel ; ' was constituted a royal burgh at request of Robert Crichton, lord of Sanquhar, in 1598 ; unites with Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben, and Kirkcudbright in sending a member to Parliament ; consists chiefly of a single street ; retains a picturesque ruin of its ancient castle ; and has a post office with all departments designated of Dumfriesshire, a rail-way station, 2 banking offices, a hotel, a towered town hall, a handsome towered Established church, 2 United Presbyterian churches, Free, Evangelical Union, and Baptist churches, a large public school, and the Crichton school. Real property in 1880-81, 3657. Pop. 1339. The parish contains also "YYanlockhead and Crawick-mill villages, measures 18 miles by 5, and comprises 40,846 acres. Keal property of landward part in 1880-81, 14,868. Pop., quoad civilia, 3109; quoad sacra, 2255. The Nith, in south-eastward course, cuts the area into two nearly equal sections ; numerous burns subdivide each of the sections to the Nith ; lofty watersheds of the Southern Highlands, with culminating summits 2403 and 2298 feet high, form the eastern and the western boundaries ; and a narrow strath along the Nith, glens along the burns, and a dense diversity of hill and mountain, form all the interior. Coal, limestone, sandstone, and lead-ores are worked. Elliock House, the birthplace of the Admirable Crichton, is a chief residence. Established and Free churches are at Wanlockhead ; and 4 schools, with accommodation for 650 scholars, are in the parish.
SANQUHAR, seat about a mile south of Forres, Elginshire.
SANQUHAR, ancient parish, now called St. Quivox, in Ayrshire.
SARCLET, fishing village, 4J miles south-by-west of Wick, Caithness. Pop. 290.
SARK, rivulet, running southward about 5 miles on east border of Dumfriesshire, and 6 miles along boundary with England to head of Solway Firth.
SARK (BLACK), affluent of the Sark in Dumfriesshire.
SARKFOOT, small seaport village at mouth of the Sark, S miles east of Annan, Dumfriesshire.
SARKSHIELDS, place in Kirkpatrick-Fleming parish, Dumfriesshire.
SASSEN, burn in Fortingal parish, Perthshire.
SATURNESS.
SAUCHEN, place in Cluny parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a banking office.
SAUCHENFORD, place in St. Ninians parish, Stirlingshire.
SAUCHENLOAN, place, with medicinal spring, in Culsalmond parish, Aberdeenshire.
SAUCHENSIDE, village in Cranston parish, Edinburghshire.
SAUCHER, village in Collace parish, Perthshire.
SAUCHIE, village, 1| mile north-east of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. It has a post office under Alloa, a railway station, and a quoad sacra parochial church. Pop. of village, 875 ; of quoad sacra parish, 2935.
SAUCHIE, seat, and battlefield of 1488, in St. Ninians parish, Stirlingshire.
SAUCHIE, burn in Kinglassie parish, Fife.
SAUCHIEBOG, section of Cambuslang town, Lanarkshire.
SAUCHIEBURN, place in Marykirk parish, Kincardineshire.
SAUCHIEHALL, quondam narrow rural road, now well-built spacious long street in north-west of Glasgow.
SAUCHIE (NEW).
SAUCHRIE, ruined ancient castle in Maybole parish, Ayrshire.
SAUCHUR, bay and bold headland in Elie parish, Fife.
SAUGHS (WATER OF), head-stream of North Esk river, Forfarshire.
SAUGHTON, seat, ^ mile south-west of Cramond-Bridge, Edinburghshire.
SAULSEAT, lake, quondam abbey, and ancient parish in "VVigtonshire. The lake lies 3 miles south-east of Stranraer, measures about a mile in horse-shoe form, and has finely-wooded shores. The abbey stood within the lake's curve, was founded in 12th century, and is now represented by only fragments of its walls and curious monuments in its cemetery. The parish is now part of Inch.
SAVALMORE.
SAVILLE, seat on west side of Sanday Island, Orkney.
SAVOCH, quoad sacra parish, comprising portions of Old Deer, New Deer, Ellon, and Tarves, in Aberdeenshire. Its post town is Ellon ; its churches are Established and United Presbyterian ; and its public schools are 2, with about 124 scholars. Pop. 1981.
SAVOCH, burn, running north-eastward to Loch Strathbeg at 6 miles south-east of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
SAVSKAL, bay in north of Eousay Island, Orkney.
SAXAFORTH, conspicuous hill on north coast of Unst Island, Shetland. It is pierced through the base by a wide, long natural tunnel ; it rises boldly from the sea to height of 938 feet ; and it serves as a landmark to mariners at distances of very many miles.
