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1S78, and the canton 5801 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 200 kilionnetres, in 1 1 communes. 



SELORICO. SeeCELORico. 



SELOWITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 

 Brunn ; 12 miles S. of Brunn. 



SELRAIN, a town of Tyrol; 7 miles W.S.W. of 

 Infpruck. 



SELSEA Bill, a cape on the S. coaft of England, in 

 the county of Suflex, which takes its name from a village, 

 fituated on a peninfula formed bv an inlet of the fea, called 

 «' Selfea harbour ;" 8 miles S. of Chichcller. N. lat. 50° 

 41'. W. long. 0° 50'. 



SELSTEN, a town of the duchy of Bremen ; 8 miles 

 S.S.E. of Bremervord. 



SELTERS, or Nieder Selters, a town of Germany, 

 in the archbifliopric of Treves, litiiated on the Emfbach ; 

 near which is a celebrated medicinal fpring ; 2 1 miles N. of 

 Mentz. See Seltzer- /^rt/fr. — Alfo, a village of the prin- 

 cipality of Nadau, on the Lahn, with a medicinal fpring; 



2 miles N. of Wcilburg. 



SELTSCHAN, or Sedlezany, a town of Bohemia, 

 in the circle of Moldau ; 22 miles S.E. of Beraun. N. lat. 

 49° 42'. E. long. 14^ 25'. 



SELTZ, a river of Germanv, which runs into the Rhine, 



3 miles N. of Ingelheim. 



Seltz, or Se/'z Benhehn, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, 

 in the dillrift of Willembourg, feated on the Rhine; 22 

 miles N.N.E. of Strafburg. The place contains 1070, and 

 the canton 10,1 10 inhabitant?, on a territory of 155 kilio- 

 metres, in 18 communes. 



SELTZBACH, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Upper Rhine ; 6 miles S.W. of Colmar. 



SELTZ ER-Water, the name of a mineral water of 

 Germany, which arifes near Neider Seltzer, of Lower 

 Seltzer, about ten miles from Francfort on the Mayne, and 

 which is now ufed in England and many other countries. 



This water iflues forth at the fpring with great rapidity, 

 is remarkably clear and briii;ht, and on pouring it from one 

 bottle into another, difcharges abundance of air-bubbles. 



That which is im.ported at London is brought over in 

 ftone-bottles, clofcly corked and cemented, containing about 

 three Englifh pints each, by which mrans this water, as 

 long as the common air is excluded, will retain many of its 

 excellent qualities for feveral months ; but this caution is fo 

 necellary, that if too large an empty fpace ie left even in 

 the neck of a bottle, it foon lofes in a great degree the 

 briflt, fmart, pungent talte, which principally charatlerizes 

 its excellence, and is more liable to be injured by keeping 

 than any other mineral water. 



Hoffman, in confequence of an analyfis of this water, 

 obferves, that an immediate effervefcence enfues on mixing 

 any acid with it, and efpccially with Rhcniih wine and fu- 

 gar, in which cafe the emotion is attended with a nolle, and 

 the liquor becomes milky ; but mixed with Rhenifh wine 

 alone, it becomes turbid, and acquires a brown colour with 

 a reddilh cart ; that the talle of this water is not fo pene- 

 trating and fubacid as that of moil other mineral waters, 

 but has a flavour rtfembling that of a dilated folution of a 

 lixivial fait ; that, with an addition of powder of galls, it 

 does not become purple, r.or blacken the llools of thofe 

 who drink it ; that, on adding oil of tartar, it becomes 

 milky without any precipitation : that a quart of this water 

 gently evaporated yields a drachm and twelve grains of a 

 faline matter, winch, diU'olv d and filtrated, yulus, on a 

 fecond evaporation, two (cruples of a pure alkaisne lalt ; 

 and that this fait diflblved in water, and added to a lolution 



of corrofive fublimate, precipitates a yellow powder or tur- 

 bith mineral, and mixed with an infufion of rhubarb, gives 

 it a reddifh colour, and mixed with fal ammoniac, emits a 

 pungent fmell : that a quart of this water, faturated with 

 fpirit of vitriol, and gently evaporated, affords a drachm 

 and a half of fait, not diitinguifliable from vitriolated tar- 

 tar : that no medicinal water is fo apt to fpoil and be 

 corrupted by keeping, and that if it be fet for a day or 

 two in an open veflel, it wholly lofes its natural flavour, 

 and taftes only like water in which oil of tartar had been 

 mixed. 



From all thefe obfervations he infers, that this water 

 abounds with an alkaline fait in a much greater quantity 

 than any of the other known mineral waters, without feem- 

 ing to contain any particles of the ferruginous earth and 

 bitter purging fait, which are the common ingredients of 

 the other mineral waters : on this account, he adds, that it 

 does not purge, but generally goes off by urine. Hoffman 

 recommends it as one of the mildeft and moft innocent of 

 all the mineral waters, and obferves that it may be taken 

 by perfons of the weakeft conilitution. 



From the experiments of Dr. Brocklefty on Seltzer- 

 water, we learn, that upon dropping twelve drops of very 

 highly coloured fyrup of violets into a wine-glafs of it, the 

 fyrup feemed iirft to manifeil a purple hue, but upon their 

 intimate union, the whole changed into a beautiful green : 

 that the fame quantit)' of oil of tartar per deliquium 

 dropped into a glafs of fparkling, frefli, clear water, 

 quickly turned the whole milky, and after Handing, a fine 

 pearl-coloured powder fell to the fides and bottom of the 

 glafs ; on adding an equal number of drops of pure de- 

 phlegmated fpirit of vitriol to a glafs of this water, a light 

 cloud was feen fufpended towards the middle of the glafs, 

 and numerous air-bubbles rofe from all parts of the water, 

 and the fparkling might be renewed by adding one or more 

 drops of the acid, and (haking the glafs ; and the like ebul- 

 lition was more readily produced bv a folution of fugar and 

 Rhenifh wine, or vinegar with the fame : and the fame ap- 

 pearances were exhibited by dropping any vegetable or 

 mineral acids into this water, as are obferved when alkalies 

 and acids are mixed together : a volatile cauftic alkali, in 

 half an hour after it had been dropped into this vi'ater, pro- 

 duced at firit a cloud and afterwards a precipitation. Lixi- 

 vium faponarium fo far decumpoled a glafs of Seltzer- 

 water, that a cloud inftantly appeared in the middle of it, 

 and the air-hubbles emerging from the lower part of it were 

 greedily abforbed by the caaltic alkali, which is known to 

 imbibe fixed air, whenever it comes into contadl writh it. 

 This water, fays Dr. Brocklelby, poured into a glafs, fe- 

 parates more air-bubbles than any other water which he had 

 tried, and continues longer to do fo in the open air, but its 

 fparkling may be renewed by adding ai.y lub acid vegetable, 

 and a little fugar, as fharp cyder and Rhenifli wine and 

 fngar ; but, he adds, that the bed Seltzer-water here will 

 not perfeftly curdle milk, nor lather with foap, and that 

 with powder of gall-nuts no farther change of colour ap- 

 peared than in pure writer. By evaporating twenty-four 

 ounces of the bell Seltzer-water, he obtained thirty-fix 

 grains of a faline refiduum ; and the greatell quantity he 

 could ever get from a pint, wine incalure, was lels than 

 thirty grains. 



Ten drops of tlrong fpirits of vitriol, poured on as many 

 grains of fait of Seltzer-water, cauled great and iiiltant 

 ebullition, and fuffocating lleam, which tinged blackiih a 

 filver fpoon held in them, and gave to its poliihed furface a 

 bitter talte. 



Having dilToIved fixty-fix grains of pure white fait, ob- 

 1 1 tamed 



