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hare been given to the place by Egeftua the Trojan, who is 

 faid to have been one of its founders ; but the Romans pre- 

 tend that it was founded by jEneas. Its rums are ftill 

 vifible. The mineral waters of this place were called " Se- 

 geftanse aquse :" and they are placed in the Itinerary of 

 Antonine on the route from the Lilybaean promontory to 

 Tyndaris, between Drepanum and Parthenicum. 



Segesta Tiguliorum, Sejiri, a town of Italy, in the interior 

 of Liguria, towards the eaft. It was anciently confi- 

 derable. 



SEGESTAN, or Seistan, in Gcsgraphy, a province of 

 Perfia, formerly called " Nimrofe," from a fabulous tra- 

 dition that it was once under water, and that it was drained 

 in the (hort fpace of half a day by the Genii, comprehends 

 part of Ariana and the country of the Sarangxans, and is 

 bounded on the N. and N.W. by Khorafan, E. by Camla- 

 har and Zableftan, and S. and S.W. by Mekran and Ker- 

 man. The greater part of this province is flat, fandy, and 

 uninhabited. A wind blows for a hundred and twenty days, 

 during the hot months, with fuch violence as to overwhelm 

 with clouds of fand, lioufes, gardens, and fields. Although 

 Segeftan is now reduced to a deplorable condition, it once 

 rivalled in profperity the molt flourifhing provinces of the 

 empire. The noble river Heermund (the ancient Ety- 

 mander), navigable for boats from Boll to Zaran^j, flows 

 through the extent of it, from the mountains of Hazara, 

 beyond Cabul to the lake of Zerrah. Capt. Chrillie, who 

 travelled in 1810 through the heart of Seiltan, reports that 

 from Noofliky, in northern Mekran, to the banks of the 

 Heermund, the country was a mere defert, interfered with 

 fand-hills, and that he did not fee a fingle town, or even 

 village, in the way ; the only inhabitants of this wild being 

 a few Balouche and Patan fliepherds, who lived in tents 

 pitched in the vicinity of the fprings. He reached the Heer- 

 mund in N. lat. 30^24'. E. long. 64" 16', and followed 

 the banks of that river for about fevcnty or eighty miles. 

 Its courfe lies through a valley, varying in breadth from 

 one to two miles, the defert riling on either fide in per- 

 pendicular cliffs. The valley, irrigated by the waters of 

 the river, is covered with verdure and bruftiwood. Our 

 traveller found an aflonifliing number of mixed towns, 

 villages, and at one of thefe, Kulcaupul, a ncible palace in a 

 tolerable ftate of prefervation. The remains of a city, 

 named " Poolkee," he defcribes as immenfe. The Heer- 

 mund is four hundred yards wide, very deep ; the water 

 being remarkably fine, and the banks cultivated for half a 

 mile on each fide. The prefent capital of Seiltan is " Doo- 

 fliak," fuppofed to be the fame with the ancient Zarang, and 

 now the refidence of the prince of Seiftan, fituated in N. 

 lat. 31° 8'. E. long. 63° 10'; about eight or nine miles 

 from the river. It is fmall and compaft, but the ruins cover 

 a vaft extent of ground. It is populous, has a good bazar, 

 and the inhabitants, dreffed in the Perfian manner, appeared 

 more civilized than the other natives of the province, who 

 are either Patan or Balouche (hepherds, men of wandering 

 life, and pitching their tents under the ruins of ancient pa- 

 laces. The country in the vicniity of the town i? open, well 

 cultivated, and produces wheat and barley fufBcient for ex- 

 portation to Herat ; the paihirage alfo is good and abundant. 

 The revenues of the chief of Seiltan amount to no more 

 than 80,000 rupees, and he can bring into the field about 

 3000 men. Twenty-five miles N. of Doolhak are the 

 ruins of a very large city, named " Pefhawaran," and a few 

 miles beyond that the remains of another, called " Jouen." 

 Ferrah, or Ferah, is diftant fixty-five miles from Doolhak ; 

 and it is defcribed as a very large walled town, fituated 

 in a fertile valley, on a river which flows into the lake of 



Zerrah, or Zara, and nearly half-way between Candaliar and 

 Herat. 



Seiltan is, at prefent, divided into a number of fmall inde- 

 pendent Hates, governed by chiefs, who live in fortified vil- 

 lages, fituated principally on the banks of the Heermund. 

 Aljout ten days' journey from Doofliak is the city of Kub- 

 beer, fituated in the midll of the defert, fifteen days' march 

 from Kerman and fixteen from Yezd. The whole of the inter- 

 mediate fpace is an arid wafte, interfected with one or two 

 ranges of mountains. Tiirougli this defert is a path, by 

 which Caflids, or couriers, can go from Kerman to Herat in 

 eighteen days ; but the rilk of perifhing is io great, that a 

 perfon of that defcription demands 200 rupees for the car- 

 riage of a letter. Kinneir's Mem. of the Perfian Empire. 



SEGESTE, in jincknt Geography, SL town of Ktria, be- 

 lonc^ing to the Carni, according to Pliny. Strabo places it 

 in Pannonia, at the confluence of feveral navigable rivers, 

 fo that the Romans eitablifhed their magazines in it, during 

 their war with the Dacians. 



Segeste, a town of Italy, in Liguria, S.E. of Portus 

 Delphini. 



SEGESVAR, in Geography. See Schesbl'RG. 



SEGETICA, in Ancient Geography, a town of European 

 Myfia, or of Mccfia, of which Craffus gained pofleilion, 

 according to Dion Caflius. 



SEGEZ, in Geography, a river of Ruflia, which forms a 

 communication betw'een the lakes Sig and Vig, in the govern- 

 ment of Olonetz. 



SEGGARS, in the Manufadure oi forceh^n and pottery, 

 are cafes formed of coarfcr clays, but which are capable of 

 fuftaining the required heat without fufion ; in which dif- 

 ferent kinds of earthenware are baked. See Porcelain 

 and Pottery. 



SEGGERA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa 

 Propria, according to the Itinerary ot Antonine. 



SEGIDA, a town of Spain, in Celtiberia. Stepli. 

 Byz. and Strabo. 



SEGILMESSA, in Geography. See Si;CULMES.SA. 



SEGISA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 Tarragonenfis, in the interior of the country of the Ba- 

 riftani. 



SEGISAMA, and Segifama Julia, a town of Spain, in 

 the Tarragone!:fis, depending upon the Vaccsans, according 

 to Ptolemy. It was fituated S. ot Lacobriga, and E. of 

 Pallentia. 



SEGLINGE, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Baltic, 

 near the coaft of Finland. N. lat. 60° 14'. E. long. 

 20° 30'. 



SEGLORA, a town of Sweden, in Well Gothland ; 

 25 miles E. of Gothenburg. 



SEGMENT of a Circle, in Geometry, a part of a circle, 

 comprehended between an arc and its chord ; or, it is a part 

 of a circle comprehended between a right line lefs than a 

 iemi-diameter, and part of the circumference. 



Thus the portion AFBA (Plate XIII. Geometry, 



Jig. 13.) comprehended between the arc AFB and the 



chord A B, is a tcgment of the circle A B F D, &c. ; fo is 



alfo A D B A a Icgmcnt comprehended between the arc 



A D B and the chord A B. 



As it is evident every fegment of a circle mud either be 

 greater or lefs than a femicircle, the greater part of the circle 

 cut off by a chord, »'. e. the part greater than a femicircle, 

 is called the greater fegment, as A F B ; and the leiier part, 

 or the part lefs than a femicircle, the hjfer fegment, aa 

 ADB, &c. 



The angle which the chord A B makes with a tangent 

 L B, is called the angle of a fegment. It is demonltrated, 



that 



