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{ius ; and which by different authors has been afligned to 

 Ejjypt, Syria, Paleftine, or Judea. 



Pliny fays that it was 150 miles long. Strabo affigns to 

 :t 200 ftadiaof lenorth, and 50 of breadth. It had commu- 

 nicated with the Mediterranean by an opening which was 

 'died up in the time of Strabo. The fable fays that Ty- 

 .^hoalay at the bottom of this lake, and the Egyptians 

 called its opening the breathing-hole of Typhon. 



SERBORA. See Scherbro. 



SERBORI Lake. See Dead 5<-<7. 



SERBURA, the name of a dog, afligned by the my- 

 thological legends of the Hindoos, as an attendant on 

 Yama, the rec/ent of their infernal regions. The name means 

 varied, or fpotted, and reminds us of the three-headed Cer- 

 berus of vvellern fable. It might as well be written Cerbura; 

 and when we add that another of his names is Triliras, or 

 three-headed, and that he is fo reprefented, we can no longer 

 doubt of their identity, and of the fable of one nation being 

 borrowed from the other, or both from a common fource. 

 See Trisiras, and Yama. 



SERCELLI, in Geography. See Shershell. 



SERCHIO, a river which rifes in the duchy of Modcna, 

 and after traverfing the if ate of Lucca, runs into the Medi- 

 terranean, 4 miles N.N. W. of Pifa. 



SERD, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adirbeit- 

 2an ; ij miles N. of Tabris. 



SERD AN, a town of Perfia, on the Kerman ; 83 miles 

 S.S.W. of Km. 



SERDAO, O, town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Alentejo ; 30 miles W.N. W. of Ourique. 



SERDAPOL, a town of Hungary ; 2 miles S. of 

 Serat. 



SERDOB, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Saratov, on the Donetz, near its fource ; 72 miles N.W. 

 of Saratov. N. lat. 52° 30'. E. long. 54° 44'. 



SERDOBOL, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Viborg, on the lake Ladoga; 60 miles N N.E. of Viborg. 

 N. lat. 61"= 45'. E. long. 30° 14'. 



SERDZE Kamen, a cape on the N.E. coall of Ruflia, 

 in the Frozen fca, fo called from its fuppofed refemblance to 

 a heart. N. lat. 67° 3'. E. long. 170° 25'. 



SERE, in Falconry, the yellow between the beak and eyes 

 of a hawk. 



Sere, in Geography, a river of Spain, which runs into 

 the fea, 6 miles S. of Penifcola. 



SEREA, a town of Abyflinia, near lake Dembea ; 90 

 miles E. N.E. 'of Mine. 



SEREBRIANKA, a gulf of Ruflia, on the W. coaft 

 cf NovaZembla. N lat. 75° 25', E. long. 52'' 14'. 



SERECH, a town of Pcrlia, in the province of Segef- 

 tan, or Seillan ; 84 miles S.S.W. of Kin. 



SERED, Sert, or Sahert, a town of Curdiftan, on the 

 Tigris, S. of Zok, fuppofed to be the ancient Tigrano- 

 certa, a city built by Tigranes, and intended by him for the 

 capital of Armenia, and peopled with inhabitants colkfted 

 from all parts of Alia. It was taken and plundered by the 

 Romans under LuculUis in the year 69 B.C. It is now 

 peopled by 5000 Curds, Syrians, and Chalda;ans, and go- 

 verned by a prince fubjeft to that of Zok ; 75 miles S.E. 

 of Diarbekir. 



Sered. See Serat. 



SEREEK, a town of Perfia, in the province of Mekran, 

 and the refidence of the chief of Jam ; it contains a large 

 mud fort, and 600 huts, filuated four miles from the fea, 

 and fix from the hills. The country between .Talk and this 

 place contains numerous plantations of palms, and abundance 

 of wheat. Jafk is tributary to the Imam of Mufcat, and 

 pays 2500 rupees a-year. It lies two milts from the fea, 



Vol. XXXII. 



and eight from the hills, and the town confifta of 250 hut», 

 defended by a mud fort. 



SEREGIPPE. See Sergipe. 



SEREGNAN, a town of Tyrol ; 8 miles N.N.E. of 

 Trent. 



SEREGNO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Milan ; 

 10 miles N. of Milan. 



SEREIL Feathers of a Hawh, the name which anfwers to 

 pinions in any other fowls. 



SEREJON, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 province of Ellramadura ; 20 miles S. of Plafencia. 



SERENA, La, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Eltramadura ; 18 miles E.S.E. of Merida. 



Serena, a river of Ctiili, which runs into the South 

 Pacific ocean, near Coqulmbo ; which fee. 



Serena, Gutta, in Medicine, the fame as amaurofis. See 

 Gutta Serena. 



SERENADE, an evening concert, given by a lover 

 under the window of his miltrefs. It generally confills of 

 inftrumental mufic ; fometimes, however, vocal is added. 

 Thefe pieces in Italy are alfo called ferenate. The mode 

 of ferenades, fays RouHeau, has been long difcontinued, 

 unlefs by the common people ; and its difcontinuance is to 

 be lamented. The filence of the night, which banilhes all 

 diltraftion, gives mufic additional charms, and renders it 

 more delicious. In the fummer of 1770, this was not the 

 cafe at Venice, fix years after Roufleau's Diftionary wa» 

 written ; as we find in our journal, during the month of 

 Augull of that year, the following memoranda. " The 

 people here (at Venice) during fummer, feem to begin to 

 live only at midnight. Then the canals are crowded with 

 gondolas, and St. Mark's fquare with company ; the banks 

 too of the canals are all peopled, and harmony prevails in 

 every part. If two of the common people walk together 

 arm in arm, they feem to converfe in long ; if there is com- 

 pany on the water, in a gondola, it is the fame ; a mere 

 melody, unaccompanied with a fecond part, is not to be 

 heard in the city : all the ballads in the ftreets are fung in 

 duo. Luckily for us, this night, Augull 7th, a barge, 

 in which there was an excellent band of mufic, confifting of 

 violins, flutes, horns, bafes, and a kettle-drum, with a pretty 

 good tenor voice, was on the great canal, and llopt very 

 near the houfe where we lodged ; it was a piece of gallantry, 

 at the expence of an inamorato in order to ferenade his 

 miftrefs. Shakfpeare fays of nofturnal mufic, 



" Methinks it founds much fweeter than by day. 

 Silence beftows the virtue on it — I think 

 The nightingale, if file fhould fiiig by day. 

 When every goofe is cackling, would be thought 

 No better a mufician than the wren." 



Whether the time, place, and manner of performing this 

 mufic, gave it adventitious and collateral charms, we will 

 not pretend to fay ; but all we know is, that the fympho- 

 nies fecmcd to us to be admirable, full of fancy, full of 

 fire ; the paflages well contralled ; fometimes the graceful, 

 fometimes the pathetic prevailed ; and fometimes, however 

 ftrange it may be thought, even noife and fury had their efleft. 



SERENE, Sehenus, a quality or title of honour given 

 to certain princes, and chief magiitrates of republics. 



The king of England is ftyled, the mofi fcrene ; the fame 

 term is alfo applied to the doge of Venice. The pope 

 and the facred college, writing to tlie emperor, to kings, 

 or the doge, give them no other title but that of moji 

 fereue. Indeed the Venetians fet the title of ferenity above 

 that of highncfs. 



In 1646, Wicquefort obferves, there was a clafhing be. 



tween the courts of France and Vienna, becaufe the emperor 



M m refufed 



