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or when flie was condemned as unfit to proceed on the 

 voyage. If any thing (hould be withheld, which the in- 

 fured might have produced, it will always throw great fuf- 

 picion on his cafe. If, on the other hand, it appears from 

 the fafts of the cafe, that the lofs may be fairly attributed 

 to fea-damage, or any other unforefeen misfortune, but yet 

 the infurers mean to allege that the ftiip at her departure was 

 not fea-worthy, the onus prolandi will lie on them. This 

 feems to be the fimplell rule ; and the fimpleft rules are 

 always the beft, particularly in matters of commerce. If it 

 be clearly afcertained that the Ihip, at the time of her de- 

 parture, was not in a condition to perform the voyage in- 

 iured, neither the innocence nor ignorance of the infured, 

 nor any precautions he may have taken to make her fea- 

 vyorthy, will avail him againft the breach of his implied 

 warranty. If the ftiip be not fea-worthy, the policy will 

 be void, though both the infured and the captain believed 

 her to be fea-worthy ; and though the infurers knew the 

 ftate ftie was in as well as the owners. Where the goods 

 infured have fuftained a damage in the voyage, from the in- 

 fufficiency of the (hip, the queflion, whether the owner or 

 mailer of the (hip be liable to make good the lofs, depends 

 on the queftion whether the (hip was in a condition to per- 

 form her voyage at the time of her departure, or became 

 defective from (Irefs of weather and the perils of the fea. 

 But it is fufficient if the (hip be fea-worthy at the time of 

 her failing. She may ceafe to be fo in twenty-four hours 

 after her departure, and yet the underwriters will con- 

 tinue liable. The queftion, however, in fuch cafes, will 

 always be, whether her difability arofe from any defeft 

 exifting before her departure, or from a caufe which occa- 

 fioned it afterivards. But if a (hip, within a day or two 

 after her departure, become leaky and founder at fea, or be 

 obliged to put back, without any vifible or adequate caufe 

 to produce fuch an effeft, the natural prefumption is, that 

 flie was not fea-worthy when (he failed ; and it will then 

 be incumbent on the infured to (hew the ftate (he was in at 

 that time. 



It is unnecelFary to make any reprefentatton of the condi- 

 tion of the (hip to the infurer, previous to the effefting of 

 the policy ; for it is a rule that no reprefentation need be 

 made of matters relating to the ri(k which are covered by a 

 warranty. 



But a (hip, to be fea-worthy, muft not only be tight, 

 ftaunch, and ftrong, and provided with all necelTary (lores 

 for the voyage propofed ; it is, as has been already obferved, 

 a condition or warranty, implied in the contraft, that the 

 (hip (hall be properly manned, by perfons of competent (kill 

 and ability to navigate her. And therefore, if (he be fuf- 

 fered to fail in a river, or other place of difEcult navigation, 

 without a pilot properly quahfied, the underwriters will be 

 difcharged ; for this is a breach of the above condition. 

 Marlhall's Treatife on Infurance, vol. ii. See Ship and 

 Warranty. 



SEA-JVraci, the name by which the fea- weed, collefled 

 and prepared for manure, is known in fome places. See 

 SsA-lVeed and Wreck. 



It is faid to be fed upon by (heep and black cattle, in 

 fome places ; eating it from the rocks on which it grows, 

 in its falteft Itate, during the ebbing of the tides. As a 

 manure, it is often ufed fre(h with earth and fand in a fort 

 of compoft, without any lofs. 



SsA-Teie. See Yoke. 



Sea, Head. Sea Head Sea. 



Sea, High. See High. 



Sea, Lie under the. See Lying. 



Sea, Pacific. See Pacific. 



Sea, Rejlux of the. See RefluX. 



Sea, Trough of the. See Trough. 



Ska, Under the. See Under. 



Sea, in Geography. See Cea. 



Sea of Kubbeer, Deria Kubbeer, a fait lake, or rather 

 mar(h, of the Perfian empire, in the province of Irak ; 

 which runs from eaft to weft about 150 miles, being in 

 fome places upwards of 35 miles in breadth. The roads 

 through this morafs are not eafily diftinguilhed ; and the 

 unfortunate wanderer runs the ri(k of either perifhing in the 

 fwamps, or dying of thirft and heat. 



SEABANKORI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 

 province of Natolia ; 8 miles S.W. of Kiangari. 



SEABASTICOCK, a river of the province of Maine, 

 which runs into the Kennebeck, N. lat. 44" 36'. W. long. 

 69° 45'- 



SEABROOK. See Saybrook. 



Seabrook, a town(hip of New Hamplhire, in Rocking, 

 ham county ; 6 miles N. of Newbury Port ; incorporated 

 in 1768, and containing 776 inhabitants. 



SEADEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; if miles 

 S.W. of AiTah. 



SEAFORD, a borough and market-town in the hun- 

 dred of Flexborough, rape of Pevenfey, and county of 

 SulTex, is fituated at the diftance of 46 miles E. by S. from 

 Chichefter, and 59 miles S.S.E. from London. It was 

 formerly a large town, and had four churches and chapels ; 

 but is now only a fmall filhing place, defended by a weak 

 fort, " eretled rather for political than military purpofes." 

 Seaford fent members to parliament as a borough from the 

 reign of Edward I. to that of Edward IV., when it ceafed 

 to exercife that privilege, till reftored and made a member 

 of the town and port of Haftings by Charles I. The cor- 

 poration conCfts of a bailiff, twelve jurats, and an indefinite 

 number of freemen. The bailiff is the returning officer at 

 eleftions, fome of which have been contefted with great 

 virulence, and have been the fubjefts of parliamentary invefti- 

 gation. By the laft decifion (19th March 1792 ), the right 

 of eleAion was declared to be " in the inhabitants houfe- 

 keepers of the faid town and port, paying fcot and lot, and 

 in them only." The market-day here is Saturday, and 

 there are two annual fairs on the 13th March and the 2yth 

 July. Accordmg to the population cenfus of 181 1, Sea- 

 ford contained 162 houfes, and looi inhabitants. Hiftory 

 of the Boroughs of Great Britain, 3 vols. 8vo. 1793. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xiv. by N. Shoberb, 

 1813. 



SEAFORTHIA, in Botany, fo named by Mr. Brown, 

 in honour of Francis lord Seaforth, F.R.S., F.L.S., and 

 F. R.S. Ed., late governor of Barbadoes, a liberal and very 

 intelligent cultivator and patron of botany, who has en- 

 riched the gardens of Britain with numerous Weft Indian 

 rarities, and whofe recent death is juftly deplored by all 

 who have a due refpeft for talents or virtue. — Brown Prodr. 

 Nov. Holl. V. I. 267. — Clafs and order. Polygamic Mono- 

 ecia. Nat. Ord. Palmd ptnnatifolia. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx deeply three-cleft. Corolla deeply three- 

 cleft. Stamens numerous. Germen with one feed. Stig- 

 mas three. Berry oval. Seed ftriated. Albumen (inuous. 

 Embryo at the bafe. 



Some flowers have an abortive piilil ; other intermediate 

 folitary ones are entirely female. 



1. S. elegans. Elegant Seaforthia. — Obferved by Mr. 

 Brown in the tropical part of New Holland. A large and 

 handforae palm, with pinnate leaves ; the leaflets plaited and 

 folded, jagged at the extremity. The genus is allied to 

 Caryota (fee that article), but efTentially different in 

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