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leagues. Its circles are nine, and cantons 59, and its 

 population 471,612. Tiie foil of" the two lall circles is 

 moderately fertile, but the others yield abundance of grain, 

 fruits, and paftiires. 



SEINSHEIM, Markt, a town of Germany, and ca- 

 pital of a lordlhip, united to the country of Schwarzenberg ; 

 18 miles S.E. of Wuraburg. 



SEIONT, a river of North Wales, which runs into the 

 Menai, near Caernarvon. 



SEIR, in Ancient Geography, the name of mountains 

 which lay to the E. and S. of the Dead fea, appropriated 

 to them before the eltabhlhmcnt of the Ilraelites in the land 

 of promife. — Alfo, a mountain on the frontier of the tribe 

 of Juda and that of Dan. Jofh. iv. 10. 



SEISACHTHEIA, Z-i^^^x^ay, in Antiquity, a public 

 facrifice at Athens, in memory of Solon's ordinanc, by 

 which the debts of' poor people were either entirely remitted, 

 or at leall the interelt due upon them leilcned, and the 

 creditors prevented from feizing upon the perfons of their 

 debtors, as had been cuftomary before that time. 



The word fig-mfies the (baking oft a burden. 



SEISENBERG, or Susoxbf.ug, in Geography, a town 

 of Carniola ; 1 1 miles S.E. of Weixelburg. 



SEISENSTAIN, a t&wn of Aultria, on the Danube; 

 2 miles N.E. of Ips. 



SEISIN, Skisina, in Lanu, figniiies poffijjion. In this 

 fenfe we fay, primer J'eifin, for the firft poilemon, &c. 



Seifin is twofold, JVifm in faS, and fcijm in law. The 

 former is when an aftual and corporal poileirion is taken : 

 and the latter, when fomething is done, which the law ac- 

 counted a teifm, as an enrolment. 



This in law gives a right to lands and tenements, though 

 the owner be by wrong diffeifed of them. He who hath an 

 hour's pofleffion quietly taken, hath fiiffi" de droit, (sf de 

 claimr, of which no man may dilleife him by his own force 

 or fubtlcty, without procefs of law. See Disseisin. 



The civilians call the latter civihm pojffjjionem, and tlie 

 former naturalem. 



Seisin, Livery of. See Livery. 



SEISINA habendo, quia rex kabuit annum, diem et -vajlum, 

 a writ that lies for delivery of fdfin to the lord of lands 

 or tenements, after the king, in right of his prerogative, 

 hath had the year, day, and waftc, on a felony committed. 



SEISINAM habere facias. See Habere. 



SEISOR. See Disseisor. 



SEI3SAN, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Gers ; 9 miles S. of Auch. 



SEISSEN, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Erzge- 

 birg ; 18 miles S.S.E. of Freyberg. N. lat. 50^ 35'. 

 E. long. 13"' 27'. 



SEITAN, a name given by Avicenna, and other of the 

 Arabian writers, to a fpecies of prickly tree, often recom- 

 mended in their prefcriptions. 



The word is fometimes alfo v;T\\lia fetan, Jiten, fetah, or 

 fetim. 



Pliny mentions this as a wood remarkably durable. He 

 fays it grew moft plentifully in Egypt, and that it re- 

 mained uncorrupted in waters. It is called by him, and 

 others of the old Latin writers, fpina nigra, the black-thorn ; 

 and the durable nature of our common floe-tree, or black- 

 thorn, growing on our hedges, has tempted fome to believe 

 it to be the fame with \.\ie feten, or fpina nigra of the ancients ; 

 but this is overthrown by tlie common account of Pliny, 

 and others, of fliips being built of this wood, the fraall fize 

 of our black-thorn rendering it wholly impolEble to put it 

 to fuch ufes. 



Theodotion is to be underftood of this wood, when he 

 fpeak.$ of the feta/j, or acaath'ma. 



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It is plain, from Avicenna, that \.\i\sfetan, or feiian, is uo 

 other than that fpecies of acacia, whicii, from ito producing 

 our gum arabic, is called the gum arabic tree. 



SEITIL, in Commerce, a wine meafure at Vienna j 168 

 feitils = 70 kopfeu = 40 raaafles = 4 viertels =: an eimer ; 

 and 30 timers := a dreyling, and 32 einjers ^ a fuder of 

 wine. The contents of a maafs are 7 1 V French cubic 

 inches, or 86rV Englifh ditto, or 3 Englifli pints nearly ; 

 fo that one eimer is ;= 15 Englilh gallons. 



SEITSAARI, in Geography, an ifland of the Baltic, five 

 verlls long, and about half as mucli in breadth, diltant 95 

 verlls from St. Peterfburg, and 75 from Vyborg. Ttie 

 land-banks here reach as far as to the Peteriburg channel, 

 and, being invifible from their lying under water, are fo 

 dangerous in dark nights, that in this place alone not fewer 

 veflels have been lo!t than in all other parts of the gulf 

 of Finland together. The land is every where unfruitful ; 

 though m fome of the marflies there is a (light crop of hay. 

 Great numbers of eels and itone pearch are caught here. 

 The herring and ftal iiiheries are alfo coniiderable. The 

 inhabitants compole about 20 families. Here is a light- 

 houle. 



SEITTENHOFF, a town of the duchy of Carniola ; 

 3 miles N. of Weixelburg. 



SEITZ, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 6 miles N.E. 

 of Cilley. 



SEJUR, a river of Syria, that rifes a little N. of Antab, 

 and after a courle of about 30 miles through a plain deriving 

 its nam.e from it, lofcs itfelf in the earth. — Alfo, a town of 

 Syria ; 15 miles S. of Antab. 



SEIX, a town ol France, in the department of the Ar- 

 riege ; 7 miles S. of St. Girons. 



SEIZE, Se.vze, or Seife, To, in Sea Language, istojoin 

 two ropes, or the two ends of one rope, together, Sec. by 

 feveral clofe turns of fmail rope, line, or fpun-yari), round 

 them, with two or more crofs-turns. 



Throat-fei'zing, is the firlt feizing clapt on where a rope 

 or ropes crols each other ; fee Rigging, Plate N^ii. 

 fg. 16, at 5. 



Middle-feizing, is a feizing between a thi-oat and end- 

 Icizing, as at 6. 



End-fei%ing, is a round feizing near the end of a rope, a» 

 at 7, on the lame plate. 



Eye-feizing, is a round feizing next the eye of a (hroud, 

 &c. Rigging, Plate 11. Jig. 15, at 3. 



T\k feizing, feajlng, or feafen of a boat, is a rope tied to 

 a ring or little chain in the foreltiip of the boat, by which 

 means it is faftened to the fide of the Ihip. 



SEIZING, in Falconry, is when an hawk gripes her 

 prey, or any thing elfe, fall between her claws. 



SEIZURE, in Commerce, an arrett of fome merchandizo 

 moveable, or other matter, either in confcquence of fome 

 law, or of fome exprefs order of the fovereign. 



Contraband goods, thofe fraudulently entered, or landed 

 without entering at all, or landed at wrong places, are fub- 

 jeft to feizure. 



In feizures among us, one half goes to the feizor, or in- 

 former, and the other half to the king. In France, half 

 the painted linens, &c. fcized, ufed to be burnt, and the 

 other half lent abroad; but in 17 15, by an arret of council, 

 the whole was ordered to be burnt. 



SEKI, in Geography, a town of Japan, in* the ifland oi' 

 Niphon ; 20 miles S.S.W. of Ixo. 



SEKIALE, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Nedsjed ; 300 miles E. of Madian. 



SEKIDO, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, in 

 the dillrift of Agouna, which has an Englilh fadory. 



SEKIN, 



