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fiven on occafion of the length of its tail in proportion to the 

 ody. 



The old Greek writers have called it alopecia, and the 

 later vulpes marina, andjimia marina, whence the names y^a- 

 fox, znA/ea-ape. See Sen-Tox and Squalus Vulpes. 



SB.\-Gagr. See Altitude and Gage. 



SEA-Gate, at Sea. When two fhips are aboard one another, 

 by means of a wave or billow, the feamen fay, they lie aboard 

 one another in a fea-gate. 



St,A.-Goofe, in Ornilhology, the Anas leiicoptera. See 

 Duck. 



SEA-Grape, in Botany. See CoccoLOBA. 



SEA-Gudgeon, in Ichffiyology, an Eiii;Hlh name given to 

 the fifh called by the generality of writers ^</&« niger, and 

 the gobius marinus. 



Artedi, who has made a genus of the gobii, excludes the 

 common gudgeon, or gohio JiuviatHis, from it, but he admits 

 this fifh as a genuine fpecies of it. 



Athenseus tells us of three kinds of gudgeons, the black, 

 the yellow, and the white. This feenis to have been very 

 plainly the black gudgeon of that author. Salvian, in his 

 figure of this fi(h, has given three fins on the back, but it 

 really has only two. See Gobius Niger. 



SzA-Hair, a fpecies of Serlularia ; which fee. 



SE-K-Hare, in the Hi/lory of Infeds, the name nf the 

 krnea ; a fpecies of the Aplyfta and alfo of the Tethys ; 

 which fee. 



SEA-Hen, in Ornilhology, a name given by fome to the 

 lomwia, a web-footed bird, common on our coafl?, and 

 called the ^!;/7/i7n)<, or kiddo-w. See COLYMBUS Troi/e. 



SEA-Bo//y, in Botany. See EliYNGiuM. 



SEA-Hor/e, in Ichthyology, the Enghfli naine of the ^^ylo- 

 campus, a fpecies of the actis, according to the older writers, 

 and one of ihe Jyngnalhi of Artedi. See Syngnathus. 



The many idle tales reported of this vaft amphibious 

 creature, fuch as his method of bleeding himlelf when dif- 

 tempered, his vomiting fire when enraged, and the like, have 

 made people, in ahnoll all ages, defirous of feeing the animal. 

 The Romans were fond of exhibiting it in their ihows of 

 wild bealts, and the defcription Pliny gave of it from thence, 

 was all the world knew of the creature for many ages. That 

 author's account, however, of its feeding on grafs on the 

 banks of the Nile, no way agrees with the teeth we find its 

 mouth fiirniihed with. 



The (keletons of thefe animals, as rare as they are with us 

 at piefeiit in tlieir recent Hate, yet are found not untrequcnlly, 

 in part at lead, buried under ground, and that at great depths. 

 The bones of the head are dllferent from thofe of any other 

 known animal, and when found in fome parts of France, had 

 always puzzled tlie wits of the naturalilts there, who had in 

 vain compared them with thofe of oy.e\i, horfcs, &c. but at 

 length one of the heads of thefe animals being lent over to 

 France, cleared up the whole difficulty. The two jaws of 

 this weighed forty-five pounds, and were two feet long, a foot 

 deep, and a foot and lialf wide. 



It is cafy to conceive fiom this, that the accounts we have 

 of the fizi •)f the animal are not fabuluiiti, th' fe bones cor- 

 fefponding very well with them. Mem. Ac:>d. Par. 1724. 



Sea-horfe is alfo a name fimetimes, but improperly, given 

 to the rivcr-horfe, or hippopotamus. 



Sea horlc is alfo a name given to that fpecies of feal called 

 walrus. 



Ska Ka/e, in Gardening, the common name of a highly 

 nutritious ai d palatable culinary vegetable. It is an early 

 efcuknt plant, tlie young (hoots of which are ufed fomewhat 

 m tlie manner of afparagus, and may, it is faid, be grown, 

 by the method of cultivation which is given hereafter, to a fize 



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and of a delicacy of flavour greatly fuperior to that whicfi 

 is commonly brought to the table. See Crambe. 



In addition to what has been offered under tliat term, it 

 may be noticed that the plant grows naturally the bell in a 

 fea fandy foil, or one which is of a loamy gravelly nature 

 near the Ihores of the fea. In the cultivation of it in the 

 garden, tlie improved method which has lately been advifed, 

 is that of preparing the ground for it by trenching it two 

 feet and a half deep, about the dole of the year or in the 

 beginning of 11 : when not that depth naturally, and of a 

 light quality, it is to be made fo by artificial mians, Inch 

 as the applying of a fuitable proportion of fine white land, 

 and very rotten vegetable mould : if the grouiid be wet in 

 the winter feafon, it Ihonld be completely drained, that no 

 water may llagnate in it near the bottom of the cultivated 

 mould, as the Itrength of the plants depends upon the dry- 

 ncfs and richnefs of the bottom foil. After which the 

 ground is to be divided into beds, four feet in width, with 

 alleys of eighteen inches between them ; then, at thi;-dif- 

 tance of every two feet each way, five or fix feeds arp to be 

 fovvn, in a circle of about four inches diameter, to the depth 

 of two inches. This bnfinefs Ihould be performed in a 

 ilridtly regular and exatt manner, as the plai.ts are after- 

 wards to be covered by means of pots for blanching tlienif 

 and the health and beauty of the crops equally depend upon 

 their Handing at regular dillances. If the feeds winch were 

 fown were lound and perfeft, they will come up and (hew 

 themfelves in the laft fpring or beginning fummer months ; 

 which as foon as they have made three or four leaves, al! 

 but three of the ftronged and belt plants fhould be taken 

 away from each circle ; planting out thofe which are pulled 

 up, which, when done by a careful hand, may be performed 

 fo as for them to have the whole of their tap-root in a fpare 

 bed for extra forcing, or the repairs of accidents. The tur- 

 nip fly and wire worm are to be carelullj guarded againit, 

 the latter by picking them by the hand from out of the 

 ground, and the former by the ufe of lime laid round the 

 young plants in a circle. Wiien the fummer mon'.hs prove 

 dry tlic bed, Ihould be plentifully watered. As loon as the 

 leaves decay in the autumn they Ihould be chared away, 

 and the beds be covered with light frelh eartii and land to 

 the thicknefs of an inch ; the ompolt thu< ufed having laid 

 fome time in a heap, and been turned feveral times, fo as to 

 be free from weds, and tlie ova of i'lfeds as well at grubs. 

 Upon thf fandy loam driffing, about fix inches in depth of 

 light liable litter is to be apphed, which completes tlic work, 

 ot the firft year. 



I.n the fpring of the feeond, when the plants arc begin- 

 ning to piifli, the liable litter n to be raked olf, a little of 

 the moll rotten beia^ dug into the alleys, and another inch 

 depth nf loam and land apnhed. Cutting this year it to 

 be refrained from, notwithllanding fome of the plant! may 

 rife llrong, and the beds managed cxadly as belore during 

 this winter f afoii. 



In the thi'd feafon, a little before tl»c plants begin to ftir, 

 the covering laid on for the winter it to be raked off', and ab 

 inch in depth of pure dry faiid or fine gravel now laid on. 

 Then each crcle of plants is to be covered with one of the 

 blancliing-pots already alluded to, prelling it firmly into the 

 ground, lo as to exclude all I gnt and air, a-, the colour and 

 Havour of the fhoois are greatly injured by rxpoturc to 

 either of them. When the beds ar.- twenty-fix feet long, 

 and four wide, they will hold iwcnt) ...ur blanchiitg-piiti, 

 with three plan's under each, makini; fvri.ty-two pbnli in 

 a bed. Tliey are to b- exami.i d from tin.e to time, the 

 young Hems biiiig cu' , when about t'l; -e inchc .ihovc the 

 grouud, care being taken not lo injure any of the rctnaiB- 



