SAVAGE Island, one of the small islands in the South sea, lying in S. Lat. 19. 1. W. Long. 169. 37. It is about seven leagues in circuit, of a good height, and has deep water close to its shores. Its interior parts are supposed to be barren, as there was no soil to be seen upon the coast; the rocks alone supplying the trees with humidity. The inhabitants are exceedingly warlike and fierce, so that Captain Cook could not have any intercourse with them.

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, a town of Jamaica, situated in the county of Cornwall in that island.—It is the county-town, where the assize courts are held. This town was almost totally destroyed in 1781 by an earthquake and inundation, when many of the inhabitants perished. It has now an elegant court-house, and contains about one hundred other houses. It belongs to Westmoreland parish, in which are 89 sugar-estates, 106 other estates, and 18,000 slaves.