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Crimea in 1783, under the orders of the Empress 

 Catharine II. The promontory on which it stands 

 was originally colonised by Greeks from Heraclea, 

 in Asia Minor, and became known as the Heracle- 

 otic Chersonese. 



See CRIMEAN WAB ; Kinglakc's Inratitm of the Crimea, 

 Hainley's War in Ute Crimea (1891), Todleben's Ver- 

 theidigumg ran Sebattopol (4 vols. Berlin, 1864-72), and 

 Leo Tolstoi's vivid description of the siege in Scbaitopol, 

 (Eng. trans. 1890). 



Sebenico (Slav. Sibenik), a picturesque town 

 of Austrian Dalmatia, stands on a landlocked bay 

 of the Adriatic, 43 miles by a branch-line of rail- 

 way N\V. of Spalato. The chief ornament of the 

 place is its cathedral, built all of stone, in 1430- 

 1555. The style is Italian Gothic. Three forts 

 and walls on the land side defend the city. Fish- 

 ing is carried on, and there is some trade in wine 

 and olive-oil. Pop. 6858. It was a favourite place 

 of residence of the kings of Croatia, was made the 

 seat of a bishopric in 1298, and repulsed a siege 

 by the Turks in 1647. See Jackson's Dalmatia 

 (vol. i. 1887). 



Sebillot, PAUL, an eminent French folklorist, 

 was born at Matignon, in the department of Cdtes- 

 dn-Nord, February 6, 1843. After his studies at 

 the communal college of Dinan, and a course of 

 law at Rennes, he came to Paris to become a 

 notary, but soon abandoned the pen for the pencil. 

 The pursuit of hi* art carried him to Saint-Brieuc 

 and Pont-Aven, and many an out-of-the-way corner 

 of Brittany, and opened up to him stores of old- 

 world lore in which he was to find the main interest 

 of his life. From 1870 to 1883 he exhibited in the 

 Salon as many an twenty pictures, but he gradually 

 abandoned art for folklore, and made hut name 

 widely known by a series of admirable books. He 

 succeeded to Henri Martin's seat in the Comniis-ion 

 for Megalithic Monument*, became chef du mbinet 

 at the ministry of Public Works, and was nominated 

 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in July 1889. 

 He edited the Revue des Traditions Pupulaires 

 from its foundation (1885), and acted as general 

 secretary to the Congres International des Tradi- 

 tions Pupulaires at Paris in 1889. 



Among bis works are Contei Populaira de la Haute- 

 Bretatmt (:( series, 1880, 1881, 1882); Litterature Oralt 

 de la Haute-Bretaijne ( 1881 ) ; Traditions et Superttitiont 

 de la Haute- Brttaijne (2 vols. 1882) ; Contei de Terre et 

 de tier ( 1883) ; Qaryantua dam let Tradition! Populairei 

 (1883); Le Blaton Popnlaire de la franc/ (with H. 

 Oaidoz, 1884); Contet da Provineet de France (1884); 

 Coutumet Populairei de la Haute- Bretaijne (1885); 

 Ltgendet, Croyancei, et Superititiom de la Mer (2 volg. 

 1886, 1887); besides Bibliographies of the folklore of 

 Brittany, Alsace, Poiton, Anvergne, and France d'Outre- 

 mer, and a host of papers on Breton language and folk- 

 lore. 



Secale. See RYE. 



Secant. See TRIGONOMETRY. 



Seechi, ANGELO, astronomer, was torn at 

 lii'ggio, 29th June 1818, and trained as a Jesuit, 

 l>i"-aine professor of Physics at Washington, United 

 States, and in 1850 at the Collegio Romano, and 

 iliroctor of the Roman observatory, where he 

 laboured till his death, 26th February 1878. His 

 chief discoveries were in the region of spectrum 

 analysis and solar physics ; and, besides some 300 

 papers, he published in French Le Soleil (1870), 

 and in Italian V Unita delle Forze Fitiche (1869) 

 and LeStelle (1877). 



Secession. See UNITED PRESBYTERIANS; 

 also UNITED STATES. 



SeckendorfT, VEIT LUDWIG VON, statesman 

 and theologian (1626-92), studied at Strasburg, 

 and served successively the princes of Saxony and 

 Brandenburg, being chancellor of the university of 



Halle at his death. He is best known for a Latin 

 compendium of church history (1664), and a work, 

 De Lutheranismo (1688), in reply to Maimbourg. 

 His nephew, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ( 1673-1763 ), was 

 distinguished as a field-marshal and diplomatist in 

 the Austrian service, and was made a Count of the 

 Empire. 



Seeker, THOMAS, Archbishop of Canterbury 

 ( 1758-68), was born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire, 

 in 1693, the son of a Dissenter of independent 

 means, who wished him to enter the ministry of 

 his own communion. In 1716, however, the son 

 turned to medicine, which he studied at London 

 and Paris, ultimately taking his doctorate in 

 physic at Leyden in 1721. Meanwhile, urged by 

 his old schoolfellow, Joseph Butler, he had decided 

 to take Anglican orders ; in 1722 he graduated 

 B.A. at Oxford, and in that and the following 

 year he was ordained deacon and priest. His pre- 

 ferments were Houghton-le-Spring (1724), Ryton 

 and a prebend at Durham (1727), chaplain to the 

 king (1732), St James's, London (1733), Bishop of 

 Bristol (1735), of Oxford (1737), Dean of St Paul's, 

 for which he resigned the living of St James's 

 (1750), and the primacy (1758). He was a wise, 

 kindly, hard- working bishop, and a notable preacher 

 in liis day. He died 3d August 1768. See the 

 Review of his Life, by Beilby Porteous (5th ed. 

 1797 ; originally prefixed to a posthumous edition 

 of his sermons, &c. 1770). 



i- the sixtieth part of a minute, whether 

 of time or of angular magnitude ; formerly seconds 

 having been distinguished as minutir, secundce, from 

 minutes or minutte primfe. See CIRCLE, DEGREE, 

 DAY. 



S-rond Advent. See ADVENTISTS, MILLEN- 

 NIUM. 



Secondary, in Geology. See PETROGRAPHY, 



.Ml -'i/oiC. 



Seconding Is an arrangement by which officers 

 of the British army, when extra-ref,'imentally em- 

 ployed, become supernumeraries in their regiments, 

 and have their places filled by others, so that the 

 service may not suffer. Thus, a captain appointed 

 adjutant of yeomanry, militia, or volunteers is 

 placed upon the seconded list for the five years 

 during which his appointment lasts. His place in 

 the regiment is filled up, but his name (in italics) 

 remains in its usual place in the Army List, his 

 promotion goes on, and he is brought back at the 

 end Hi his employment as goon as a vacancy occurs 

 in his proper rank. 



Second-sight, a gift of prophetic vision, long 

 supposed in the Scottish Highlands and elsewhere 

 to belong to particular persons. The most common 

 form it took was to see tne wraith, fetch, or shadowy 

 second self of some person soon to die, often 

 wrapped in a shroud, or attended with some other 

 of the special circumstances of death or burial. 

 Of course the prophetic character may easily enough 

 have been a mere additional assumption, the time 

 of occurrence of distant events being apt to be con- 

 fused with the time of hearing of them. In the 

 popular mind everywhere the mystery of death, and 

 the instinctive human longing to believe in a con- 

 tinuity of conscious spiritual life and sympathy, 

 have generated a belief in the probability of an 

 appearance coinciding with, or soon succeeding, 

 the death of an individual ; and from this the step 

 is easy to a belief in the possibility of similar 

 appearances before death, in order to foreshadow 

 or forewarn. For, if the appearance be admitted 

 as a probability, it is not difficult to take a further 

 step and attribute to it the function. For what 

 more natural than to suppose that, just as the 

 aflection for a dead friend survives the separation 

 of the grave, BO the affections of the disembodied 



