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(2280), and eight others exceeding 2000 feet alxive 

 se- level. Sheep-fanning (over 160,000 head ) is an 

 important industry ; and the manufactures an- run- 

 fined to the two towM of Selkirk and Galashiels. 

 The Duke of Biiccleuch is chief proprietor, holding 

 about three-fifth* of the whole county. Sine.- IsiiT 

 Selkirk-line has united with Peeblesshire to return 

 one member. Pop. (1801) 6388; (1851) 9809; 

 (1871) 14,005; (I89I)27,3.->.X of hoin 6937 were in 

 Selkirk, and 17,307 in Galashiels. Smaller than 

 Middlesex, and than all but six of the thirty-three 

 Scotch counties, Selkirkshire yet contains within its 

 narrow hounds almost all the old Forest of Ettrick ; 

 St Mary V Loch : the whole course of the Yarrow ; 

 the vale of Ettrick, where the 'Shepherd ' was Imrn 

 and lies huried ; the birthplaces, too, of Laidlaw 

 and Mnngo Park, of the 'flower of Yarrow ' and 

 Alison Cockbnrn ; Ashiesteel, where Scott wrote 

 Marmion ; the scenes of the ballads of 'The 

 Douglas Traced v,' ' The Dowie Deus,' ' The Outlaw 

 Murray,' ami ' Young Tamlaiie ;' the battlelield of 

 Philipimugh ; and the ruins or sites of the castles 

 and peel-towers of Newark, Dryhope, Tushielaw, 

 Oak wood, and Biiccleuch. See the articles ETTRICK, 

 YARROW, PmUPBAUOR; and T. Craig-Brown's 

 History of Selkirkshire (2 vols. 1886). 



Kellar, WILLIAM YOUNG, was Imrn at Morvich 

 near Golspie in Sutherland, February 22, 1825, and 

 educated at Edinburgh Academy, of which at four- 

 teen he was head-boy. He next went to Glasgow 

 University, from which he passed at seventeen, 

 a Snell Exhibitioner, to Balliol College, Oxford. 

 He graduated with a classical first-class, in 1850 

 was elected to a fellowship at Oriel, next acted as 

 assistant-professor at Durham, (ihisgow (1851-53), 

 mid Si Andrews ( 18.53-59), filled for four years the 

 k ehair at St Andrews, ami was elected in 1863 

 to the Latin chair at Edinburgh, which he retained 

 till his death near Dairy in Galloway, 12th October 

 1890. He made his name widely known by his 

 learned and brilliant book, The jRoman Poets of 

 the KeptMic (1863; revised and enlarged, 1881), 

 which was followed by The Roman Poets of the 

 Augustan Age Kirov/ (1877), and Horace and the 

 Elegiac Poets (1892), the latter edited from his 

 papers by his nephew, Mr Andrew Lang, with a brief 

 memoir prefixed. Of the last volume the com- 

 pletion of his task the part treating of Ovid alone 

 is unfinished. The whole forms a noble corpus of 

 criticism on the greatest poets of Koine, marked 

 by full knowledge, insight at once keen and sym- 

 pathetic, and a line dignity of style a quality in 

 modern days too rare. 



Srlina. capital of Dallas county, Alabama, on 

 the Alabama River, and at the intersection of 

 a number of railways, 165 miles by rail NNE. 

 of Mobile. It has a large trade in cotton, 

 and possesses ironworks, cotton-factories, steam 

 pkning-mills, car- works, &c. Pop. ( 1890) 7626. 



Sclsey, or SKI.SKA, a village of 900 inhabitants, 

 on a Hat and dreary but fertile peninsula on the 

 NM -sex coast, 7 miles 8. of Chichester. Here 

 in the middle of the 7th century the cathedral 

 church of the South Saxons was founded by Wilfrid 

 of York ; and Selsey was the see of a succession of 

 twenty two bishops, till in 1079 the seat of the 

 bishopric was transferred to Chichester by Itishop 

 St i^.'ind. The sea has made great encroachments 

 on the peninsula, which ends in Selsey Kill; and 

 the site of the old cathedral is now submerged. 



HcltJ.fr Water (Ge.r. tellencaster) takes its 

 name from the village of Nicd.-r Sellers near l.im 

 burg, in the Prussian district of Wiesbaden, where 

 several springs, in one basin, yield 5000 cubic feet 

 an hour of this sparkling amf effervescing mineral 

 water. It* chief ingredients are carl ionic acid, 

 bicarbonate of sodium, and common salt. It acts 



as a mild stimulant of the mucous membranes and 

 a* a diuretic, and is applied in chronic disorders of 

 the digestive, respiratory, and urinary organs. It is 

 much used as a beverage and as a table-water by 

 those suffering from liver complaint, and in hot 

 climates and seasons. Some three million jars or 

 liottles of this famous water are exported yearly 

 to all <|narters of the world. The spring \\.is 

 ili-<Mivered early in the 16th century, but was at 

 fir.-t little prized. Artificial Seltzer Water is ex- 

 tensively manufactured both on a large scale and 

 for domestic use. See AEKATED WATERS, MIN 

 ERAL WATERS. 



Selwyn, GEORGE, wit, was bom of a good old 

 Gloucestershire family on llth August 1719, and 

 was educated at Eton and Hertford College, Ox- 

 ford, whence, after making the grand tour, he was 

 expelled in 1745 for a blasphemous travesty of the. 

 Eucharist. He entered parliament for a pocket 

 borough in 1747, and, siding generally with the 

 court party, was rewarded with several sinecures ; 

 in 1751 succeeded his father in the Matson pro- 

 perty ; and for the best part of half a century led 

 the life of a man about town, do/ing in the House, 

 gaming pretty deeply, corresponding much, and 

 haunting executions. He often visited Paris, 

 where he had the entree of the best and the highest 

 society, whilst at home his chief intimates were 

 the Duke of Queensberry, Horace Walpole, ' Gillv ' 

 Williams, and Lord Carlisle. Grown at last ' like 

 the waxwork figure of a corpse,' he died penitent 

 at his house in Cleveland Row, London, on 2."ith 

 January 1791. He left 33,000 to Maria Fagniani, 

 and the residue of his fortune to 'Old Q,' who dis- 

 puted with him the paternity of that future Mar- 

 chioness of Hertford. 



See Jesse's delightful George Selwyn and hit Contem- 

 poraries (4 vols. 1843), and the review thereof in Hay- 

 ward's Lord Chesterfield and George Selvryn (1854). 



Selwyn, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, bishop, was lx>rn 

 5th April 1809. He was educated at Eton 

 and at Cambridge. He rowed in the first inter- 

 university boat-race (1829), and was a great 

 pedestrian and swimmer, athletic powers found 

 very serviceable in after life. In 1841, while curate 

 of Windsor, he was consecrated first and only bishop 

 of New Zealand and Melanesia now divided into 

 seven sees. On the voyage out he studied Maori 

 and navigation, so that he could preach to the 

 natives in their own tongue on his arrival, and 

 could steer his own vessel on his missionary voy- 

 ages. He visited every portion of his huge diocese 

 before setting about his great work of organising it. 

 A visit to England in 1854 brought back John 

 Coleridge Patteson, afterwards the martyred bishop 

 of Melanesia, to whose see Bishop Selwyn's second 

 son was consecrated in 1877. In 1867 Bishop 

 Selwyn attended the first Pan-Anglican Synod at 

 Lambeth, and against his own inclinations was ap- 

 pointed Bishop of Lichfield the see of the Black 

 Country where upon his initiative the first Dio- 

 cesan Conference in which the laity were duly repre- 

 sented met in 1868, and where he died llth April 

 1878. A devoted churchman, with love to God and 

 loyalty to his sovereign and his archbishop as his 

 guiding principles, he thought no duty too humble, 

 no act of kindness too trifling, and no work to which 

 he wan sent too difficult to undertake. Possessing 

 in a special degree the gift of organisation, and 

 always regarding himself as ' a man under author- 

 ity,' 'he expected the same soldier-like obedience 

 from those under him. He did much to make 

 Lichfield the life-giving, spiritual heart of the 

 diocese, and so fulfil his high ideal of the cathedral 

 system. 



".See Life by Rev. H. W. Tucker (2 vol.. 1879) and 

 (more popular) Life by Rev. O. H. Curteis ( 1 vol. 1889). 

 Fur Selwyn College, see CAMBUIDUE, Vol. II. p. 670. 



