or SANTORIN, an island of the Archipelago, to the north of Candia, and distant from it about 90 leagues, and to the south-west of Naphlio. It is eight miles in length, and nearly as much in breadth, and almost covered with pumice-stone, whence the soil in general must be dry and barren; it is, however, greatly improved by the labour and industry of the inhabitants, who have turned it into a garden. It affords a great deal of barley, plenty of cotton, and large quantities of wine. Fruit is scarce, except almonds and figs; and there is neither oil nor wood. The partridge and the hare, so common in the other islands of the Archipelago, are scarce at Santorin; but quails are met with in abundance. The inhabitants are all Greeks, and are about 10,000 in number. Pyrgos is the capital town, beside which, there are several little towns and villages. There is but one spring of water in the island, for which reason the rain-water is preserved in cisterns. Though subject to the Turks, they choose their own magistrates. E. Long. 25. 36. N. Lat. 36. 38.

SANIZO, RAPHAEL. See Raphael.