Rothesay, the isle of Rother, the ancient name of Bute Rotterdam, 60 Rouen, 133 Rousillon, named from the ancient town of _Ruscino_, a Roman colony Roveredo, Lat. _Roboretum_, a place planted with oaks, in Tyrol Row, in Dumbartonshire, from _rubha_, Gael. a promontory running into the sea Roxburgh, 167 Ruabon, corrupt. from _Rhiw-Mabon-Sant_, the ascent of St. Mabon, in North Wales Rudgeley or Rugely, 166 Rugen, named from the Rugii Runcorn, 45 Runnymede, 132 Rushbrook and Rushford, 167 Russia, named from the _Rossi_, a tribe of Norsemen in the ninth century Ruthin and Rhuddlan, 165 Rutland, 165 Rybinsk, 168 Ryde, 167 Ryswick, 168 S Saale R., 169 Saarbrück, 31 Saar-Louis, 12 Sabor, 28 Sabor R., 28 Saffron Walden, 202 Sagan, Sclav. behind the road Sahara, 176 Saida or Sidon, Semitic, fish town Saintes, named from the _Santones_ Salamanca, 169 Salem, in U.S., intended by the Puritans to be a type of the New Jerusalem Salford, 169 Salins, 169 Salisbury, 35 Salonica, corrupt. from _Thessalonica_ Salop, contracted from _Sloppesbury_, the Norman corruption of _Scrobbesbury_, the town among shrubs, now Shrewsbury--_v._ 34 Saltcoats, 55 Salzburg, 169 Samarcand, said to have been named after Alexander the Great Samaria, the town of Shemir Samos, Phœn. the lofty Sandwich, 209 Sangerhausen--_v._ SANG Sanquhar, 172 San Salvador, the Holy Saviour, the first land descried by Columbus, and therefore named by him from the Saviour, who had guarded him in so many perils San Sebastian, the first Spanish colony founded in South America Santa Cruz, 57 Santa Fé, the city of the holy faith, founded by Queen Isabella after the siege of Granada Santander, named after St. Andrew Saragossa, corrupt. from _Cæsarea Augusta_; its Basque name was _Saluba_, the sheep’s ford Sarawak, Malay _Sarakaw_, the cove Sarnow, 212 Saskatchewan, swift current, a river in British North America Saul, in Gloucester--_v._ SALH, 169 Saul, Co. Down--_v._ SABHALL, 168 Saumur, anc. _Salmurium_, the walled building Saxony, 170 Scala-nova, 39 Scalloway, 170 Scarborough, 175 Scawfell Mountain, 78 Schaffhausen, 102 Schemnitz, 114 Schichallion Mountain, Gael. _Ti-chail-linn_, the maiden’s pap Schleswick, 209 Schmalkalden, 171 Schotturen, the Scotch Vienna, a colony of Scottish monks having settled there Schreckhorn Mountain, 107 Schweidnitz, Sclav. the place of the cornel-tree Schweinfurt, the ford of the Suevi Schwerin, 172 Scilly Islands, the islands of the rock, _siglio_ Scinde, the country of the R. Indus or Sinde