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poraries in endeavouring to extend the authority of the 

 church of England, and advocated the meafure of eiUblifli- 

 ing bifhops in the American colonies. On this fubjcA he 

 was attacked by Dr. Mayhevv of Bofton, to whom he re- 

 plied with much temper. The argument in favour of 

 American biihops turned upon the incompletenefs of an 

 epifcopal church without them, and the great inconveniences 

 experienced by the clergy of that remote country in the 

 neceffary communication with the mother eftablifhmcnt. 

 The archbi(hop fhewed that he was quite fincere in his 

 wifhes for the eftablifhment of epifcopacy in America, by 

 bequeathing looo/. towards effetling the purpofe. The 

 fubfequent fcparation of the colonies from the Britirti 

 government, however, put an end to this projeft further 

 than concerned Canada. 



During the time that archbifliop Seeker held his high pre- 

 ferment, the Methodills made very rapid Itrides in the pro- 

 pagation of their principles : fome of the biftiops had de- 

 clared againft them ; but Dr. Seeker afted with his ufual 

 prudence, and recommended to his clergy moderation and 

 kindnefs in their beliaviour towards thofe whom he wiftied 

 to confider as his future friends, but whom others were 

 difpofed to treat as enemies. 



The archbifhop had for many years been a great fufferer 

 from the gout, which latterly brought on fevere local pains. 

 Thefe were at lall confined to the thigh, and terminated in 

 an extenlive caries of the thigh-bone ; one of the fatal 

 confequences of which was a fudden frafture of that bone 

 upon the mere raifing him up on his couch. Shortly after 

 this he died, Aug. 3, 1768, in the 75th year of his age. 



To the many benefaftions for ufeful and charitable pur- 

 pofes which he bellowed in his life- time, he made large addi- 

 tions by his will. Befides his " Leftures on the Church 

 Catechifm," he was author of " Eight Charges delivered 

 to the Clergy of the Diocefes of Oxford and Canterbury ; 

 with Inllrudlions to Candidates for Orders, and a Latin 

 Speech, intended to have been made at the opening of the 

 Convocation in 1761 ;" " Fourteen Sermons, preached on 

 feveral Occafions ;" and " Sermons on feveral Subjects," 

 in four volumes, publifhed after his death by his chaplains, 

 Drs. Porteus and Stinton. The various works of this able 

 prelate have ellablilhed his charafter as one of the moft ufe- 

 ful and rational preachers among the Englifh divines. 

 Their ftyle is fimple and without ornament : they have no 

 pretence to oratory and fine writing ; but they difplay 

 more knowledge of the human heart, and the real motives 

 of aftion, than is ufnally found in thofekinds of compofitions. 

 They are truly didaftic, and " come home to men's bufinefs 

 and bofoms" in a remarkable degree. 



He was attached to thofe political principles which placed 

 the houfe of Hanover on the throne ; and on the breaking 

 out of the rebfllion in 1745, he exerted himfelf moil con- 

 fpicuonfly in fupport of government. He enlifted himfelf 

 under the banners of no ftate party ; but his chief parlia- 

 mentary connexions were with the dnke of Newcallle and 

 lord Hardwicke. Life of Seeker, prefixed to his Sermons. 



SECKINGEN, in Geography, a town of Baden, on the 

 Rhine, the waters of which lurround it ; 4 miles W. of 

 Laufenburg. N. lat. 47'-' 34'. E. long. 8°. 



SECKVELT, i town of the ftate of Utrecht ; 13 miles 

 W. of Utrecht. 



SECLIA, a name by which fome authors have called 

 wormwood. 



SECLIN, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the North, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftriifl of Lille ; 4 miles S. of Lille. The place contains 



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2500, and the canton 13,679 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 i02ikiliometros, in 16 communes. 



SECO, a town of Africa, in Kaarta ; 65 miles E. of 

 Kemmoo. — Alfo, a river of Peru, which runs into the 

 Pacific ocean, S. lat. 7° 6'. 



SECOANL in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Syria, fituated in the mountains, E. of the Mediterranean 

 fea, and W. of the river Orontes, in the territory of 

 Apaina;a. 



SECOMI^, in Natural Hi/lory, the name of a genus of 

 foflils, of the clafs of the feptaria ; the charafters of which 

 are, that they are bodies of a dufky hue, divided by fepta, 

 or partitions of a fparry matter, into feveral more or lefs 

 regular portions, of a moderately firm texture, not giving 

 fire with fteel, but fermenting with acid menitrua, and eafily 

 calcining. 



The ieptarix of this genus are, cf all others, the moll 

 common, and are what have been known by the little ex- 

 preffive, or miftaken names of the waxen vein, or /uJui 

 Helmontii. We have many fpecies of thefe bodies common 

 among us. Of the vvliitifli or brownilh kinds we have thir- 

 teen ; of the yeliowilh, five ; and of the ferruginous ones, 

 four. 



SECOND, in Anatomy. See SeCUNDI generis. 



Second, in Geometry, AJironomy, isfc. the fixticth part of 

 a prime, or minute ; eitlier in the divifion of circles, or in 

 the meafure of time. 



A degree, and an hour, are each divided into fixty 

 minutes, marked thus ' ; a minute is fubdivided into fixty 

 feconds, marked thus " ; a fecond into fixty thirds, marked 

 thus '", &c. 



We fometimcs fay, a fecond minute, a third minute, Sec. 

 but more ufually, fim ply, ytcon^/, third, l^c. 



A pendulum, three feet three inches and two-tenths of 

 an inch long, vibrates feconds, according to fir Jonas Moor'j 

 reduftion of Huygens, three feet eight lines and a half of 

 Paris meafure to Eiighfh meafure. Sec Pendulum. 



Second, in Mufic, denotes one of the mufical intervals \ 

 being only the dillance between any found, and the next 

 found, whether higher or lower. 



As in the compafs of a tone there are reckoned nine fen- 

 fibly different founds, which form thofe little interval! 

 called commas, one might in llriclncfs fay there arc eight 

 kinds of founds. 



There are three kinds of feconds occurring in praAicc, 

 thcleller, the greater, and the fuperfluous fecond ; to which, 

 if the enharmonic genus were rellored, we might add the 

 diminiflied fecond. The lell'er fecond is the femitonc ni,-i)or, 

 and is nearly equal to 5^; commas. The greater fecond it 

 the tone, whicli being either nuijor or minor, there mull 

 alfo be two great feconds ; one nearly equal to 8A commas, 

 and the other to 9.^ commas : but praAitioners ulually con- 

 found thefe two. The fuperiluous fecond is a tone major, 

 and femitone major ; the other fupcrfluous iccond, arilinjj 

 from the tone minor, and femitonc minor, is not in ufe. 

 L:;lUy, the diminifhed fecond is a femitone minor lefs than 

 the lefl'er fecond ; that is, equal to the diefis enharmonic*. 

 Thus, between E and F, or between A and B, would be a 

 diminiflied fecond, as alio between G fliarp and A. This laft 

 ha.s been practilcd by Mr. Handel, in the oratorio of Samp- 

 fon, in the fecond part of tiie fong, " Return, return, O 

 God of Hofls." Sec L\rEH\AL. 



Some authors, as O/.anam, call the femitone minor by 



the name of diminl/hed fecond ; but this is contrary to the 



analogy in like caies, where diminifhed is ufually apphrd to 



intervals a femitone minor lefs than a true diatonic iiitrrvaU 



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