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60 miles N. of Mourzouk. Here the large remains of an 

 ancient caftlc, built upon a hill, and of other venerable ruins, 

 that, in point of extent, are compared to thofe of Lebida, 

 imprefs on the mind of the traveller the melancholy idea of 

 departed greatnefs ; while, on the other hand, the humble 

 dwellings of the modern inhabitants, and the rich vegetation 

 of their neighbouring fields, prefent to his eye an ample 

 ftore of all that is requilite for the fuften^ince of man. Dates, 

 barley, Indian corn, pumpions, cucumbers, fig-trees, pome- 

 granates, and apricots, and for meaner pnrpofes, the white 

 thorn and Spanifh bean, are defcribed as but a part of the 

 numerous vegetables that reward the induftrj' of the people. 

 The animals in which they moft abound are the common 

 fowl, and the brown long-haired aiid broad-taileJ (hcep. At 

 the diilance of two days' journey from Sebbah is " God- 

 doua," a town of fimilar produce ; and in two days more 

 the traveller arrives at Mourzouk. 



SEBEDA, in Ancisnt Geography, a port of Lycia, ac- 

 cording to the Periplus of Arrian. 



SEBEL, an Arabian name for the diforder of the eye 

 ufually called a pannus. 



SEBEN, in Geography, a town of the bilhopric of 

 Brixen, on the fcite of an ancient town named " Sabiona," 

 deftroyed by Attila ; eight miles S.W. of Brixen. 



SEBENDUNUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Spain, in the Tarragonenfis, the country of the Caftellani. 

 Ptolemy. 



SEBENICO, in Geography, a fea-port town of Dalma- 

 tia, fituated on the Kerka, near the Adriatic ; one of the 

 ftrongeft towns on the coaft, with a large harbour, defended 

 by four citadels ; erefted into a bilhopric in 1298. It is 

 faid to have been founded by a number of banditti, who 

 lived on the rock which is the prefent fcite of the cattle, and 

 who plundered any vefl'els that approached the coaft. In 

 procefs of time they built fome colleges, and inclofcd them 

 with a kind of palifades called " fibue," whence was formed 

 Sebenico. The city was enlarged by an increafe of robbers ; 

 and afterwards, when the ancient city of Scardona was de- 

 ftroyed, its inhabitants reforted to Sebenico. The inha- 

 bitants, opprefled by the king of Hungary, who was then 

 fovereign of Dalmatia, furrendered themfelves in 141 2 to the 

 republic of Venice. This city, whatever may hive been its 

 origin, is the moft pleafantly fituated of any in Dalmatia, 

 and alfo the beft built, containing the greateft number of 

 noble famihes, next to Zara. On one fide it is defended by 

 a cattle on a hill ; and towards the fea, upon a narrow chan- 

 nel at the mouth of the harbour by another fort, a noble 

 work of Sammicheli, whofe gate refembles that of Verona, by 

 the fame celebrated architeft. Among the buildings of Se- 

 benico, the dome or cathedral deferves particular notice, on 

 account of its general fabric, and more efpccially of its 

 roof, which is compofed of large pieces of marble, con- 

 nefted together. In the fixteenth century the arts and 

 fciences flouriftied here more than in any other city of Dal- 

 matia. It has feveral buildings in good ftyle of architecture, 

 and it has produced many eminent men ; 25 miles N.W. of 

 Spalatro. N. lat. 44° 30'. E. long. i6» i;'. 



SEBENNYTES Nomus, in Ancient Geography, a nome 

 of Eeypt, between the branches of the Nile, called the 

 PhariTuthiac'and Athribitic, and near their mouth. Ptolemy 

 divides this nome into the Upper and Lower. 



SEBENNYTICUM Osxiim, the name of one of the 

 feven mouths of the Nile, E. of that called the Bollitic. 

 Ptolemy. 



SEBENNYTUS, a town of Egypt, in the Delta, and 

 capital of the Sebennytic nome. 



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SEBENSTAIN, in Geography, a town of Auftria, 10 

 miles S. of Ebenfurth. 



SEBER, WoLFFANG, in Biography, a German philofo- 

 pher and divine, was born at Sula, in the dittriA of Hennc- 

 burgh, in 1573. He loft his father in early life, and had 

 to ftruggle with all the difficulties incident to poverty. He 

 completed his ttudies at Leipfic, and became reAor of the 

 fchool of Schlcnfingen, afterwards luperintendant and paf- 

 tor at Wafungen, and finally infpedtor of thegymnafium, 

 and aflenor of the confiftory at the former place. In old 

 age he was afRifted with blindnefs, and died in .Tanuary 

 1634. He bequeathed his library to the gymnafiiim of the 

 place of which he had been the reftor, and left a fund for 

 the yearly maintenance of fix ftudents in theology. His 

 " Index omnium in Homcro Verborum," has frequently 

 been reprinted. An edition of it was publiihed at Oxford 

 in 1780. He edited feveral learned works, and was author 

 of various poems, epiftles, and orations. 



SEBERE, in Geography, a river of Naples, which rifes 

 about fix miles from Mount Veluvius, and runs into the fea 

 rear Naples, fupplying the fountains and aquedudls of that 



SEBESE, or Pulo Bicie, a fmall illand in the itraits of 

 Sunda. N. lat. 5°5o'. E. long. 105° 27'. 



SEBESTEN, Sebkstexa, Myxa, in Pharmacy, &c. 

 the fruit of a fpecies of cordia, refembling a little plum or 

 prune, which, when ripe, is of a deep red colour, bordering 

 on black ; very fweet, and the flelh, or pulp, glutinous or 

 tticky. 



The Syrians make a kind of glue, or birdlime, of the 

 febeltens, called bircllime of Alexandria. The fruit has 

 been efteemed pectoral, cooling, and emollient ; though it 

 is now difcarded by the colleges both of London and 

 Edinburgh. 



The ilone within it is triangular : it brought its name 

 from Arabia, whence Phny obferves it came in his time into 

 It:ily. 



SEBESTENA, in Botany, a (light alteration of its 

 Arabic name Sebejlen, is retained by Gaertner, inttead of the 

 Linnsan appellation of the genus, Cordia; which latter, 

 preferving the memory of one, if not two, highly merito- 

 rious botanitts, furely ought not to be let afide. See Cor- 

 dia, fp. I. 



SEBESVAR, in Geography, a town of Tranfilvania ; 

 22 miles W.S.W. of Colofvar. 



SEBETUS, or Sebethis, m Ancient Geography, a river 

 of Italy, in Campania, which watered the town of Nea- 

 polis. 



SEBIEZ, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Polotfk ; 40 miles N. of Polotft. N. lat. 

 56° 10'. E. long. 28= 14'. 



SEBIFERA, m Botany, a genus of Loureiro's, named 

 from febum, tallow, becaule it produces a limiiar fubftance, 

 ufcd for making candlet. — Loureir. Cochinch. 637. — Clafs 

 and order, Dioccia Polyadehhia. Nat. Ord. Tiiiaccx, Ju'l". ? 

 Gen. Ch. Male, Cal. Perianth of four roundifh, concave, 

 hairy, fpreading leaves. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments about 

 one hundred, capillary, longer than the calyx, diftributed 

 into ten fets ; anthers ovate, of two cells. 



Female on a feparate plant. Cal. as in the male. Cor. 

 none. Pijl. Germens about ten, fuperior, ftalkcd, roundifli ; 

 ftyle fcarcely any ; ttigmas foHtary, obtufe, undivided. 

 Peric. Berries about ten, globofe, of one cell. Seeds foli- 

 tary, globofe. 



EfT. Ch. Male, Calyx of four leaves. Corolla none, 

 Stasiens an hundred, in ten ietf . 



Fem.ale, 



