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jrcod. Porterfield on the Eye, vol. ii. pp. 285. 315. 

 Smith's Optics, Remarks, p. 31. Reid's Inquiry, p. 267. 

 Mem. Prefentes, p. 514. Acad. Par. 1747. M. p. 334. 

 Hartley on Man, vol. i. p. 207. Prieltley's Hitl. of Light 

 and Colours, p. 663, &c. 



Whence it is that we fee objeAs ereft, when it is certain 

 that the images of them are painted invertedly on the retina, 

 is another difficulty in the theory of feeing. 



Defcarteu accounts for it hence, that the notice which tlie 

 foul takes of the objeft does not depend on any image, nor 

 on any aftion coming from the objeft, but merely on the 

 lltuation of the minute part of the brain whence the nerves 

 arife. E. gr. the fituatien of a capillament of the optic 

 nerve correlponds to a certain part of the brain, which oc- 

 cafions the foul to fee all thofe places lying in a right line 

 therewith. 



But Mr. Molyneux gives us another account : the eye, lie 

 obfcrves, is only the organ or inllrument ; it is the foul that 

 fees. To enquire, then, how the foul perceives the objeft 

 eredl by an inverted image, is to inquire into the foul's facul- 

 ties. Again, imagine that the eye receives an impulfe on its 

 lower part, by a ray from the upper part of an objetl, mull 

 not the vifive faculty be herebv diredled to confider this 

 Itroke as coming from the top, rather than the bottom of the 

 objeft ; and, confequently, be determined to conclude it the 

 reprefentation of the top ? 



Upon thefe principles, we are to confider, that inverted is 

 only a relative term, and that there is a very great difference 

 between the real objeft and the means or image whereby we 

 perceive it. When all the parts of a diilant profpeft are 

 painted upon the retina (fuppofing that to be the feat of vi- 

 fion), they are all right with refpeft to one another, as well as 

 the parts of the profpeft itfelf ; and we can only judge of an 

 objetl being inverted, when it is turned reverfe to its natural 

 pofition with refpeft to other objefts which we fee and com- 

 pare it with. 



The eye, or vifive faculty, (fays Molyneux) takes no 

 notice of the internal furface of its own parts, but ufes them 

 as an inllrument only, contrived by nature for the cxercife 

 of fuch a faculty. If we lay hold of an upriglit itick in 

 the dark, we can tell which is the upper or lower part of it, 

 by moving our hand upwards or downwards ; and very well 

 know, that we cannot feel the upper end by moving our 

 hand downwards. Juft fo, we find by experience and habit, 

 that upon diredling our eyes towards a tall objeft, we can- 

 not fee its top by turning our eyes downward, nor its foot 

 by turning our eyes upward; but mull trace the object the 

 fame way by the eye to fee it from head to foot, as we do by 

 the hand to feel ; and as the judgment is informed by the 

 motion of the hand in one cafe, fo it is alfo by the motion 

 of the eye in the other. Molyneux's Dioptr. p. 105, &c. 

 Mufchenbroeck's Int. ad Phil. Nat. vol. ii. p. 762. Fer- 

 gufoii's Ltftures, p. 132. See on the fubjefts of this ar- 

 ticle, our account of the phyfiology of the eye, under 

 Eye. 



Sekivo Faith. See Faith. 



SEEKIRCHEN, in Geography, a town of the arcli- 

 bifliopric of Salzburg, on the Waller See ; 4 miles N. of 

 Salzburg. 



SEEKPORUM, a townof Hindooftan, in Boggilcund ; 

 35 miles N.N.E. of Rewah. 



SEEL, in jlgrkiilture, a term provincially applied to time 

 or feaf'.nin rcfped to c-ps, as hay feel, or hay time, bar- 

 Icy feel, or barley feed time, bark feel, or the barking feafon, 

 &c. It is fomctimes written y^/. 



SEEL.AND, in Geography. See Zf.ALAND. 



SEELANG, a fmaU ifland in tlie Eafl Indian fea, near 



the S. coafl of the idand of Bachian, with which it forrris 

 a good inner and alfo outer harbour. 



SEELBURG, or Sehnpills, a town of the duchy of 

 Courland, on the Dwina, where the bilhops of SemigaUia 

 formerly refided, and who, on that account, were called 

 bilhops of Seelburg ; 50 miles S.E. of Riga. 



SEELING. A horfe is faid to feel \\\\en he begins to 

 have white eye-brows, that is, when there grows on that 

 part about the breadth of a farthing of white hairs, mixed 

 with thofe of his natural colour, which is a mark of old 



It is faid a horfe never feels till he is fourteen years old, 

 and always does before he is fixteen. The light forrel and 

 black fooner feel than any other. 



Horle-jockies ufually pull out thofe hairs with pincers : 

 but if there be fo many that it cannot be done without 

 making the horfe look bald and ugly, then they colour their 

 eye-brows, that they may not appear old. 



Seelixg, in Falconry, is the running a thread through the 

 eye-lids of a hawk, when firll taken, to make her endure the 

 hood the better. 



Seeling, at Sea, is ufed in the fame fenfe nearly with 

 heeling : when a fliip lies down conftantly, or lleadily, on 

 one fide, the feamen fay ftie heeh ; and they csiWt feeling, 

 when fhe tumbles on one fide violently and fuddenly, by rea- 

 fon of the fea forfaking her, as they call it, /. e. the waves 

 leaving her for a time in a bowling fea. When a (hip thus 

 tumbles to leeward, they call it lee feel ; and in this there is 

 not much danger, even in a ftorm, becaufe the fea will pre- 

 fently right her up again ; but if fhe rowls or feels to wind- 

 ward, there is fear of her coming over too fhort or fuddenly, 

 and fo by having the fea break right into her, be either 

 foundered, or elfe have fome of her upper works carried 

 away. 



SEELINGAN, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the 

 Sooloo Archipelago. N. lat. 6° 4'. E. long. 118° 15'. 



SEELKEN, a town of PrutTia, in the province of Na- 

 tangen ; 9 miles W.N.W. of Liel. 



SEELOW, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middln- 

 Mark ; 10 miles W. of Cuilrin. 



SEEM, or Seme. See Seam. 



SEE-MA- KOANG, in Biography, a Chincfe . mandarin 

 and philofopher of the eleventh century, who enjoyed the 

 favour of the emperor, and had feveral important places, 

 which he refigned and retired to a folitary place, where he 

 wrote a hiftory of China, commencing at the 403d year be- 

 fore the Chriftian era. He was author likewifc of fome 

 moral treatifes. 



SEEMO, in Geography,, a town of Africa, in KafTon. 

 N. lat. 14° 2,-'. E. long. 8° 45'. 



SEENEENDOONG, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian 

 fea, near the N. coall of Borneo. N. lat. 7'' 48'. E. long. 



^if as'- 



8EENGH00, a large town ot the Birmaa empire, 

 fitnatcd on the Irawaddy, having in its neighbourliood,_ and 

 for a great dillance along the callern bank of the river, 

 fmall temples built clofe to the water ; 10 miles S. of Pa- 

 gahm. 



SEEOR, a town of Hindooftan, in Malwa ; 50 miler. 

 E.S.E. of Shajehanpour. 



SEEPARliAN, a fmall ifland in the Eafl Indian fea, 

 near the eafl coall of Borneo. N. lat. 4° 8'. E. long. 



SEER, Principality of, a petty fovcrcignty of Ar.ibia, 



extending from Cape Mullendom along the Perli.ni guli. 



The Perfians call it the country of Dsjiilfar, another cape 



near MufTendora. rfThe Europeans alfo call the inhn. 



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