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For a great variety of other fradlional feries, fee Clarke's 

 tranllatiofi of Lorgna's Series ; for the feveral differential 

 formulse, our articles 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 ; for the fummat.on 

 of Recurring Series, fee that article ; for the moll uietul 

 logarithmic feries, fee Logarithms ; and for various trigo- 

 nometrical feries, fee the articles Sines, and Trigono- 

 metry. • .u 



SERIGNAC, in Geography, a town of I'rancc, in the 

 department of the Finifterre ; 10 miles N. of Carhaix. 



SERIGNAN, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Hcrault ; 6 miles S. of Beziers. 



SERIGNI, a fea-port town of the ifland of Java, in the 

 ftraits of Sunda, belonging to the king of Bantam. 



SERIGO. See Cerigo. 



Serigo, a town of Italy, on the lake Como j 27 miles 

 N. of Como. 



SER.IIHEYODOUC, a town of Chinefc Tartar,', in 

 the country of the Mor.guls. N. lat. 42" 15'. E. long. 



■102° 34'- . . , ■ r 



SERIKOTCHE, a town of Perfia, in the province of 



Chorafan or Khoraffns ; 195 miles N. of Herat. 



SERIMSAH, a town of Egypt; 16 miles S. of Da- 



mietta. 



SERIN, or Serain, a river of France, which runs into 

 the Yoniie, between Auxerre and Joigny. 



Serin, or Ser'wus, in Ormlhology, the name of a fmall 

 bird ; a fpecies of the Fringilla in tlie Luinaean fyllem, com- 

 mon in Germany and Italy, and called by the Aullrians 

 haerngril, or hirngryl. Its back is of a reddifh-brown, and 

 its head yellow ; the colour being deeper in the male, and 

 paler in the female ; the rump is of a beaatitul yellowifh- 

 green, as is alfo the breall ; the belly is white, and the lidos 

 have fome oblong blackilh fpots ; the tail, and long feathers 

 of the wings, are black, and a little greenifli at tlieir extre- 

 mities ; the beak is very thick, Itrong, and fhort, and is 

 very fharp at the point. It is kept in cages, and lings very 

 fweetly. 



Serin of Surinam. See Pipra Crlftata. 

 Serin of the Canaries. See Fringilla Canarla. 

 Serin of Jamaica. See Fringilla Cana. 

 SERINDA, in Ancient Geography, a town of India, on 

 this fide of the Ganges, the inhabitants of which paid 

 great refpeft to the emperor Juhan. 



SERINE, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, 

 in the province of Macedonia ; 44 miles S.E. of Saloniki. 



SERINEAH, a town of Bengal, 18 miles S. of Pur- 

 neah. 



SERINETTE, a bird organ, faid in the Encyclopedic 

 to be an invention of Barbary. The pitch is very higli, 

 being in unifon with the larigot Hop in French organs, and 

 with our 15th. It is ufed to teach birds httle tunes, by 

 thofe unable to play on the flageolet. Its conipafs is only 

 an oftave, or 13 pipes, as no bafe is ever wanted. 



SERINGAPATAM, in Geography, a city of Hindoof- 

 tan, and capital of My'ore, fituated on an idand in the Cau- 

 very, which is here about five feet deep, and runs over a rocky 

 channel, about 290 or :;oo miles from Madras. The length 

 of this ille is about four miles, and its breadth about four and 

 a half miles ; the weftern fide being allotted to the fortrefs, 



S E R 



which occupied 2000 yards, diftinguifhed by regular out- 

 works, magnificent palaces, and lofty mofl<s ; for Tippoo 

 and his father were both Mahometans, nor were they averfe 

 from the perfecution of the Hindoos and Chrillians. The 

 environs were decorated wita noble gardens ; and among 

 other mean-i of defence was the "bound hedge," as it was 

 called, confining of every thorny tree and cau'lic plant of the 

 climate, planted to the breadth of from 30 to 50 feet. 

 Covered on the north and fouth by the river, this fortrefs 

 was defended till the peace of 1792 by a fingb rampart; 

 the ea!l and weft faces being much weaker, were ftrengthened 

 by double walls and ditches, by outworks before the gates, 

 by a circular work upon the fouth-eaft angle, and by feveral 

 formidable cavaliers within and upon the fouthern rampart. 

 The rampart, which is thick and ftrong, varies in height 

 from 20 to 35 feet and upwards : the whole of the revSte- 

 ment, except the north-weft baftion, is compofed of granite 

 cut in large oblong pieces, laid in cement, tranfverfely 

 in the walls. The ditches are cut out of the folid rock ; 

 a ftone glacis extends along the north face. But the inte- 

 rior of the fort has few good buildings, and the town in 

 general is mean. The old Myfore palace being in a ruined 

 Rate, has been converted into a military ftorehoufe. The 

 fultan's palace is a magnificent edifice, in the Afiatic Ityle, 

 but much disfigured by a high wall, and a number of un- 

 finifhed buildings round it. The great mode is covered with 

 the finell chunam (or polifhed cement), and ornamented with 

 lofty mir.arets. In the year 1792, lord Cornwallis laid 

 fiege to this city, and compelled Tippoo, king of Myfore, to 

 a peace, by which he made a ceffion of great part of his 

 do.Tiinions, and agreed to pay three crores and thirty lacks 

 of rupees towards the expences of the war. In the year 

 1799, the Britifh troops, after a (hort fiege of a few days, 

 took it by affault. Thelofs of the befiegers amounted to 22 

 officers killed, and45 wounded, 181 Eiiropea:is rank and file 

 killed, 622 wounded, and 22 mifling ; 1 19 natives killed, 

 420 wounded, and 100 mifting. There were in the fort 

 13,739 regular i-.ifantry ; and without the fort and in the 

 intrenchmentsof the ifl-ind 8100. Tlie lofs muft have been 

 very great, as in the afl'ault only, 24 principal officers were 

 killed, and feven wounded, befides Tippoo hinifelf, who re- 

 ceived a (hot in his head. There were found in the forts 

 373 brafs guns, 60 mortars, 1 1 howitzers, 466 iron gans, 

 and 12 mortars, 424,400 round fhot, 520,000 lbs. of gun- 

 powder, and 99,000 mulkets, carbines, &c. Within the 

 fort there were II large powder magazines, 72 expence ma- 

 gazines, 1 1 armouries, two cannon founderies, three build- 

 ings with magazines for boring guns and mulkets, four large 

 arfenals, and 17 other ftorehoufes, containing accoutrements, 

 fwords, and other articles, befides many granaries abundantly 

 ftored with provifioiis of all kind?. Of treafure and jewels 

 the total value was 2,535,804 ilar pagodas, or 1,143,216/. 

 flerling. The fall ot this city put the whole kingdom of 

 Myfore, with all its refources, i.to the power of the Britilh 

 government. Tippoo's fons lurrendcred on the fall of 

 Seringapatam. When the ftrength of the fortifications of 

 all kinds of this place, and the number of Tippoo's troops 

 and artillery are confidered, our repeated fuccedes afford 

 a convincing proof that no climate or fortrefs can overcome 

 Britifti courage, condu A, and perfeverance. N. lat. 1 2° 3 1' 

 45". E. long. 76" 46' 45". 



SERINGHAM, an ifland of Hindooftan, in the river 

 Cauvery, on which are two pagodas, much venerated by 

 the Hindoos, and one peciharly the objeft of devotion. 

 In 1751 the French took pofi'effion of this pagoda, and in 

 the following year it was taken by the EngUlh under major 

 Lawrence ; 4 miles N.E. of Tritchinopoli. 



7 SERINHAEM, 



