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SEEDI.Y, in Geography, a town of Morung ; 55 miles 

 N.W. of Amcrpour. 



SEEDNESS, in Agriculture, provincially ufed for feed 



time. 



SEEDSMAN, a term applied to the labourer or perfon 

 who fcatters, difperfes, or puts the feed in or on the ground, 

 in fowing for different forts of crops, before it is covered. 

 Certain peculiarities of ilep and caft are requifite in good 

 feedfmen, which are only to be acquired by time, praftice, 

 or experience. Expert feedfmen are, of courfe, but rarely 

 to be met with among farm labourers, though they are of 

 very material importance, in fo far as the fuccefs, goodnefa, 

 and beauty of the crops are concerned, as well as in faviiig 

 much expence in the feed, and other ways : confequeiitly 

 the farmer who does not perform this fort of bufinefs hini- 

 felf, will find it to be greatly his interefl to have conltantly 

 the bell, moft able, and experienced men of this kind pro- 

 cured for executing the work of fowing ; as he will thereby 

 have not <nily confiderable immediate faving, but the ad- 

 vantages of a more certain and favourable appearance, and 

 much greater produce in his crops. It is hardly to be con- 

 ceived, except by thofe converfant in the matter, how great 

 the wafte and injuries are, which are committed by feedfmen 

 who are not well acquainted, experienced, and expert in the 

 bufinefs of fowing. They are, befides, in many initances, 

 incapable of getting on with the work with that expedition 

 which is neceftary ; which is a very great inconvenience and 

 lofs to the farmer at this very bufy feafon of the year, when 

 every thing of this fort ought to be in the greateit activity. 

 See Seed and Sowing. 



It is alfo a term which is made ufe of to fignify the perfon 

 who keeps a (hop, or other place, for the fale of feeds, 

 either to the farmer, or the gardener, or any other perfons. 

 Thefe feed-dealers have fometimes the name of garden 

 feedfmen. The London feed-dealers are a very confiderable 

 clafs of men, wlio do much bufinefs in the difpofing of all 

 forts of feeds which are neceflary to be employed in the 

 praftice of farming and gardening, as well as in different 

 other ways. 



The garden feedfman is commonly the gardener himfelf, 

 other perfons being never, or very rarely, employed in fow- 

 ing any fort of garden crop. 



SEEDY, in the Brnndy Trade, a term ufed by the 

 dealers to exprefs a fault that is found in feveral parcels of 

 French brandy, and which renders them unfaleablc. T^e 

 French fnppofe that thefe brandies obtain the flavour, 

 which they exprefs by this name, from the weeds which 

 grew among tlie vines, from whence the wine, of which this 

 brandy was made, was preiled. 



However it be, the thing is evident, and the tadc not of 

 any one kind ; but fome pieces of brandy fhall talte llrongly 

 of anifecd, fome of carraway feed, and fome of other of 

 the llrong flavoured feeds of plants, principally of the um- 

 belliferous kind ; fo that it (hall be rather taken for anifeed, 

 carraway, or fome other water, than for brandy. 



The proprietor of fuch brandies is always at great trouble 

 to get tlieni ofi, and ufually is reduced to the ncceflity of 

 mixing them in fmall quantities with pieces of other brandies, 

 fo as to drown and conceal the talle ; and where he has not 

 opportunities of doing this, he is obliged to fell them on 

 very difadvantageenis terms. 



The bufinefs of rectification of fpirits is very little under- 

 ftood abroad, though much praftifed with us ; and a man 

 in France or Holland, who could take off this tailc from 

 theie brandies, might get great advantages by it. There 

 is no doubt but that the fame means, which we ufe to rec- 

 tify malt fpirits, that is, to clear it of ita nanfcoui ard 



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(linking oil, which always arifes with it in the firft diflitlj. 

 tion, would alfo fcrve to purify thefe brandies, and by 

 leaving the extraneous oils behind, render them as well taded 

 as any others ; fince there is no qucftion, but that the oil of 

 malt, which is a principle of the fame ingredient with the 

 fpirit, is more firmly united to it than thefe flavouring oils 

 in the brandy, which are not the produce of the grape, but 

 of fome foreign matter enly accidentally mixed with it. Sec 

 Brandy and Spirits. 



It is a miitake to imagine, that all brandies made in 

 France are fo fine as thofe which we meet with on the quays 

 of London ; on the contrary, there are many hundred pieces 

 made every year, which are as badly flavoured as our coarfeft 

 malt fpirit. But the cafe is this, they fend the bed brandies, 

 and tile befl wine, to England, where they can get the beft 

 prices for them. In Holland, on the contrary, the mart 

 of goods of all forts, it is fometimes difficult to feleft one 

 piece of good brandy out of fifty, the general run of them 

 being either feedy, or mully, oily, or otherwife infefted 

 with fome unnatural and difagieeable flavour : and thefe are 

 the forts which in France they defpair of curing by re- 

 diltiUation, or bringing to the (late of three-fifths, or troit 

 cinques, a- they exprefs their llronger brandies. Shaw's 

 Eday on Diftillery. 



Seedy Abdel Ablus, in Geography, a town of Tunis, an- 

 ciently called " Mudi ;" 16 miles N.E. of Keft. 



Seedy Abdelmoumen, a town ot Algiers, in the province 

 of Tremc(;eii, on the coail of the Mediterranean, having a 

 good road for (liips. It derives its name from a celebrated 

 prophet, whofe tomb the inhabitants hold in great venera^ 

 tion ; 4 miles S.W. of Mejerda. 



Skedv Abdullah, a town of Morocco, on thecoaft of the 

 Atlantic ; 30 miles N. of Mogador. 



Seedy Abid, a town of Algiers, in the province of Tre- 

 megcn, at the conflux of the Arhew and the Shelliff, held 

 as a fanftuary ; 30 miles E. of Mullygannim. 



Seedy Bofgannim, a town of Tunis ; 40 miles S.W. of 

 Keft. 



Seedy Buforodon, a town of Morocco, on the coail of 

 the Atlantic ; 10 miles N. of Mogador. 



Seedy Doude, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Tunis, at the north extremity of the peninfula of Dakkul, 

 furrounded with the ruins of the ancient Mifna. Its pre- 

 fcnt name is derived from Doude, or David, a Moorifh 

 faint, whofe fepulchre, as they fliew it, is five yards long. 

 But, according to Dr. Sliaw (in his Travels), this is really 

 a fragment of fome Roman prxtorium, as he is led to con- 

 jefture from three tedellated or mofaic paveinenti, wrought 

 with the moft exaft fymmetry ; and executed with all the 

 artful wreathings and variety of colours imaginable, and with 

 an intermixture of figures of horfes, birds, filhes, and trees, 

 curioudy inlaid, fo that they appear more gay and lively 

 than many tolerably good paintings ; 10 miles S.W. of 

 Cape Bon. 



Seedy Eefah, a town of Algiers, anciently called Sava ; 

 25 miles S. of Boujeiah. 



Skkdy Meddub, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Tunis ; 20 miles N. of Gabs. 



Seedy Nedja, a town of Algiers ; 26 miles E. of Burg 

 Hamza. 



Seedy Occuba, a town of Africa, in the province of 

 Zaab, famous for a tomb of an Arabian general of that 

 name, and for that of Seedy Lafcar, its tutelar faint ; 15 

 miles S.E. of Bifcara. 



SEEFELDT, a town of Aullria; 6 miles W. of 

 Laab. 



SEEHAUSEN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Old 

 .\ a Mark. 



