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LEFT SANDUSKY BAY 231 SANFOIN in the world, and is in the heart of a great grape-growing region. Its manufactured articles include carpenters' tools, handles, chemicals, dynamos, glass, aeroplane en- gines, cement, spokes and hubs, thresh- ing machines, boilers, etc. Pop. (1910) 19,989; (1920) 22,897. SANDUSKY BAY, a bay in Ohio, pro- jects from Lake Erie between Erie and Ottawa counties; constitutes a fine har- bor, in which vessels find safety during storms. On its shore, near the mouth of the Sandusky river, is the city of San- dusky. Its shore in places is made attrac- tive by strips of forest. It is 20 miles long and 5 miles wide. SANDUSKY RIVER, a river in Ohio, whose source is near the W. border of Richland co. Its course is W. through Crawford co. till it reaches Upper San- dusky, where it turns N. and traverses the counties of Seneca and Sandusky, and flows into the W. end of Sandusky Bay, at Sandusky. It is 150 miles long. SAND WASP, the common name of a family of fossorial hymenopterous in- sects, the Sphegidse of Latreille. There are numerous species, generally large, violet blue, sometimes banded with yel- low; the females have a sting; there are no neuters, the female making her own nest in the sand. SANDWICH (so called after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Kent, England, who used to have sandwiches brought to him at the gaming table, to enable him to play without leaving off), two thin slices of bread, plain or buttered, with a slice of meat, as ham, beef, etc., seasoned with mustard, between them; hence, applied to anything resembling a sandwich, i. e., consisting of a person or thing placed between two different things. SANDWICH TERN, in ornithology, the Sterna cantiaca, first observed in Eng- land at Sandwich (whence its popular name), in 1784, by Boys. It is a summer visitant, leaving in August. Wings and back pearl-gray, breast white, head above the eyes black. Length about 15 inches. SANDY HOOK, a low beach at the mouth of New York harbor, about 5 miles long, and varying in width from a few hundred feet to % of a mile. There is a beacon light at the very extreme point, but the Sandy Hook lighthouse is % of a mile to the S. The National Govern- ment established Fort Hancock and heavy ordnance proving grounds here. SANDYS, EDWIN, an English clergy- man; born in Hawkshead, England, in 1528, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he became master of Catherine Hall and subsequently vice- chancellor of the university. Being a partisan of Lady Jane Grey, he was im- prisoned in the Tower; but was liberated at the end of four months, and crossed to Germany. On the accession of Elizabeth he returned to England, and was made Bishop of Worcester in 1559. In 1570 he was translated to London, and thence to York in 1577. He died in Southwell, July 10, 1588. His son, Sir Edwin Sandys (born in Worcester, England, in 1561), was employed by James I. on sev- eral missions, received the honor of knighthood, was connected with the Sec- ond Virginia Company and otherwise with American colonies, and published "Eu- rope Speculum, a Survey of the State of Religion in the Western Parts of the World." He died in Northborne, Kent, in October, 1629. Another son, George Sandys (born in Bishopsthorp, England, in 1578), published a "Relation of Travels in the East," a metrical translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," metrical para- phrases of the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, etc. His poetry is praised by Dryden and Pope. He died in Bixley Abbey in March, 1644. SAN FERNANDO, a town in the Philippine Islands, on the Island of Cebu, 5 miles southwest of the capital town, on the east coast of the island. Pop. about 19,000. SAN FERNANDO, a town in the Philippine Islands, on the island of Luzon, in Pampango province. It is a small town, about 4 miles N. E. of Bacolor, with a telegraph and railroad station on the Manila-Daugaupan railroad. It is of con- siderable importance on account of the sugar mills located in the vicinity and large amounts of sugar are shipped to Manila. SAN FERNANDO, a town in the Philippine Islands, on the W. coast of the Island of Luzon, in the province of La Union, near the entrance to the Gulf of Lingayen. It has a good port, and con- siderable amounts of sugar, indigo, hemp and rice are shipped to Manila by sea. Pop. about 19,000. SANFOIN (Hedysarum onobrychis), a perennial forage plant; native of Eu- rope up to lat. 51°; a legume which has the property of binding light, dry, sandy, and chalky soils by its roots. English and Continental writers agree as to its nutritious qualities for stock, and also to its value as a crop to shade the soil and for plowing under. It has been tried from time to time in the United States, both N. and S., but has not met with favor. See Sainfoin.