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The cathedral church has fome paintings of the fchool of 

 Joaiinez, and of that of Ribalta. The church of the con- 

 vent of nuns is of good architedlure, and has fome good 

 paintings. The feminary is kept in the ancient houfe of the 

 Jefuits. Antonio Ximen, a poet in the commencement of 

 the 1 6th century, and Juan Valero, a theologian of the be- 

 gmning of the 17th century, were born in this town. At 

 a quarter of a league from Segorbe ftands the Carthufian 

 monallery of Vel de Chrilto, founded by the infant don 

 Martin, fon and fuccedbr of Peter IV., king of Aragon. 

 Here are fome good paintings by Vergara, Camaron, Da- 

 nofo, Joannez, and Orrante. The monks have eftabhihed 

 a paper manufactory at Altura, a village of about ijpo in- 

 habitants, which belongs to them, and which is at a quarter 

 of a league's diftance between their monallery and Segorbe. 

 N. lat. 39° 58'. W. long. 0° 39'. 



SEGORTIALACTA, in Jncimt Geography, a town 

 of Spain, in the Tarragonenfis, which belonged to the 

 Arevacas. Ptolemy. 



SEGOSA, a town of Gaul, marked in the Itinerary of 

 Antonine between Aqs and Bourdeaux. It is now the 

 place called " Efcoulfe." 



SEGOSTAEVO, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, in 

 the government of Kolivan ; 44 miles W. of Krafnoiarflc. 



SEGOVELLAUNI, or SeGALAUni, in Jncknt Geo- 

 graphy, a people of the interior of Gallia Narbonuenfis, in 

 the vicinity of the Rhone. Pliny. 



SEGOVIA, a tov/n of Hither Spam, fouth of Gauca ; 

 famous for its aquedutt, laid to have been conftrutlcd in 

 the time of Trajan. 



Skgovia, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, 

 which in the arrangement of its buildings exhibits the 

 figure of a fhip, with the Hern to the call, and the prow to 

 the weft, commanding an immenfe rock, and appearing 

 buried between two deep vallies, one lying to the north, 

 and the other to the fouth. The firlt is watered by a 

 llream, called Clamares, which forms a junftion with the 

 Erofma, that waters the laft, on which are five handfome 

 bridges. This river, whofe banks are clothed with wood, 

 formerly bore the name of Areva, whence the appellation 

 of Arevaci was given to the inhabitants of thefe vallies. 

 The city is furrounded with walls ; and a range of towers, 

 at equal dillances, is planted on the ramparts. The number 

 of houfes hat been ellimated at jooo, but the population 

 does not exceed 10,000 fouls. The Itreets are almolt. all 

 narrow and crooked, and irregularly paved. The four 

 fuburbs are on more even ground, and contain feveral nianu- 

 faftorics. Segovia is the fee of a bifliop, fufFragan of the 

 archbifliop of Toledo, whofe diocefe includes the cathedral 

 chapter of Segovia, the collegiate chapter of St. Ildefonfo, 

 and 438 parifhes. The cathedral chapter is compofed of 

 8 dignities, 37 canons, 7 prebends, and 19 fub-prebends ; 

 and befides tliefe, 23 chaplains are attached to the church. 

 In Segovia are reckoned 24 parifhes, a chapel of cafe, and 

 21 convents for both fexes. This city is the refidence of 

 the intendant of the diftritt, which allumes its name ; and 

 under the fuperintendance of a corregidor, an alcade, and 

 a fixed number of regidors. Here are a ftatiftical focicty, 

 the members of which allume the title of " friends of the 

 country ;" and a military fchool, deftined for the inllrudtion 

 of young engineers. Segovia was once a commercial and 

 opulent town, eminently diftinguifhed for its cloth and 

 woollen manufadtures ; and it has been calculated, that 

 44,100 quintals of wool were confumed in the looms of this 

 town, and that 34,199 perfons were employed by them ; 

 but its manufaAures and trade declined, I'o that, in the 

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no more than 120 looms, in which only 4318 quintals of 

 wafhed wool were confumed. Between 40 and 50 years 

 ago, this manufafture revived ; and in 1790 there was an 

 addition of 63 looms, which employed 800 or 900 quintals of 

 wool, and afforded occupation to 2400 manufafturers. 

 This city has ftill a manufaftory of dclf-ware, but it is of 

 little importance. Among its public edifices we may 

 reckon the mint, producing at prefent only copper, which 

 is a handfome building, conftrudled in the 15th century by 

 Henry IV., and in part re-edified by Philip II. : its opera- 

 tions are carried on by hydraulic machines ; — the convent of 

 the Capuchins, with a fubterraneous chapel ; — the convent 

 of the Cannehtes ; — the town-houfe, the front of which has 

 two compartments, with finiple Doric pillars, arranged in 

 double rows, and on each fide a tower fupported on a piazza 

 by ten columns ; — the church of the Jcronimltes of Pcirral ; 

 —the cathedral church, which prcfents a mixture of Gothic 

 and Grecian architefture, though conftrudled in the i6th 

 century, with the principal altar of marble, and having in 

 the middle a filver ftatue of the Virgin, and feveral other 

 ornaments ; — and the alcazar, formerly the refidence of the 

 Callilian kings, bearing the charafters of venerable anti- 

 quity, where Alphonfo the Wife compofed his aftronomical 

 tables, and in which are apartments fretted with mofaic 

 work, ftill frcfli ; and a feries of 52 Itatues of painted wood, 

 and each bearing an appropriate infcription. The nobleft 

 monument of Segovia is its aqueduft, which has been re- 

 ferred by fome writers to a very remote antiquity, and 

 afcnbed to the architefts who built the Egyptian temple of 

 Serapis ; but which much more probably originated with 

 the Romans, at an unafcertained period, but perhaps with 

 the authority of Licinius, Larcius, or Trajan. The ma- 

 terials are of rough free-ftone. It commences at a large 

 flone bafon, (about 50 paces from the town,) from whence 

 it receives the water, which it conveys through an open 

 canal towards the fouth. At its origin the fabric is erefted 

 on a long i-ange of 75 arches, of which the firll is 14 feet 

 6 inches in height ; the laft, which is at the convent of St. 

 Francifco, is 33 feet 6 inches. At this point begins a 

 double row of arches, fupported one over the other, which 

 run in the direction of eait and weft, and crofs the valley 

 and the place of Azoquejo ; of thefe the greateft elevation 

 is 80 feet 10 inches. The whole range comprehends 159 

 arches, fupported on pilafters, moll of which meafure 6 feet 

 1 1 inches in the front furface, and 9 feet 4 inches on the in- 

 terior fide. The aqueduft terminates at the alcazar, after 

 having diftributed tiie greater part of the water through 

 different quarters of the town. In modern times, this noble 

 work of Roman architefture has been disfigured by the 

 ercftion of feveral houfes on its pilatters, a difpofition highly 

 injurious to the majefty of the original edifice. It is built of 

 fquare ilones, which are placed 01c on the other, without 

 any appearance of cement. Segovia was the native place 

 of Alphonfo de Ledefma, a good poet, who flourilhed at 

 the commencement of the laft century ; of Domenico Soto, 

 the fon of a gardener, who publ^lhed an eflay " De Juftitia 

 et Jure," two books " De Natura ct Gratia," and Conj- 

 mentaries on St. Paul's Epiftle to the Homans. At Se- 

 govia was alfo born the Jefuit Francis Ribcra, who died at 

 Salamanca in 1591, well known for the erudition and acu- 

 men difplaycd in his Comnuntaries on the mi.ior prophets. 

 Segovia is diftaut 46 miles N.N.W. of Madrid. N. lat. 

 41" 3'. W. long. 4" i'. 



Skcovia, Nueva, a town of the idand of Lu9on, 



founded in 1598, the fee of a biftiop, defended by a fort and 



a garrilon ; lituattd near the N. toaft of the iiland ; 350 



miles N. of Manilla. — Alfo, a town of Mexico, in the pro- 



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