S E S 



SET 



ihiitated Raphael, to whom he was known. He died at 

 Milan in 1524. 



Sesto, in Gtogrnphy, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe ; 

 28 miles W.N.W. of Milan. — Alfo, a town of Italy, in 

 Friuli ; 5 miles N. of Concordia. 



SESTOLA, a town of Italy, in the department of the 

 Panaro ; 17 miles S. of Modena. 



SESTOS, a fortrefs ef European Turkey, in the pro- 

 vince of Romania, oppofite to Abydos ; 24 miles S.S.W. 

 of Gallipoli. N. lat. 40° 6'. E. long. 26° 25'. Abydos 

 (which fee) and Sejios were two towns, oppofue one another 

 at the moft narrow part of the Hellefpont : they were 

 famous for the love-adventures of Leander, who lived at 

 Abydos, and Hero, a prieftefs of Venus, at Seftos. Lean- 

 der fwam acrol's the Hellefpont to vifit his miftrefs, guided 

 by a torch, which (lie lighted on the top of a tower ; but, 

 in a tempeftuous night, Leander, having too imprudently 

 committed himfelf to the waves, could not reach the other 

 fhore, and was unfortunately fwallowed up by the agitated 

 waters. Hero, in true defpair, threw herfelf into th« fea, 

 in order to (hare the fate of her lover. Procopius places 

 Seftos in the cove the neareil to Abydos ; and he adds, 

 that the emperor Juftinian caufed a citadel to be built near 

 that city : the remains of this citadel are ftill to be feen 

 clofe to the fea-(hore. On the declivity of the hill, the 

 walls of the ancient city may very eafily be traced. Four 

 miles from Seftos, on afcending the channel, is another har- 

 bour, near which is feen only a fingle habitation of dervifes, ' 

 occupied by three or four MufTulman monks. 



Se6TOS, a river which rifes in the mountains of Sierra 

 Leone, traverfes the Grain Coaft, and runs into the Atlantic, 

 N. lat. f 30'. 



SESTRE, Grand, or Great Parts, a town of Africa, on 

 the Grain Coaft, being one of the largeft commercial towns 

 of the country. N. lat. 4° 16'. W. long. 8° 20'. 



Sestre, Petit, or Little Paris, a town of Africa, on 

 the Grain Coaft, near Grand Seftre. 



SESTRE-KRO, or Settra-Kroo, a town of Africa, 

 being the chief town of the Kroo country, which extends 

 along the Grain Coaft, between Cape Mount and Cape 

 Palmas, from 5° 54' to 5° 7' N. lat. The chief town is 

 in long. 7° 48'. This diftrift, though fmall, is extremely 

 populous, and the natives are of a migratory difpofition. 

 Above 800 are employed as labourers at Sierra Leone ; 

 and they are to be found at every faftory and town along 

 the coaft for a fpace of 350 miles. They are employed 

 as faftors or intermediate merchants, boatmen and failors ; 

 and while the (lave trade was carried on upon this coaft, 

 they had their (hare of its occupations. After the age of 

 forty, they return and fettle at home. Their country 

 produces grain, particularly fine rice, pepper, and cattle ; 

 but their ftaple article is their own labour, with which 

 they purchafe goods, and return to their homes with the 

 produce. Wars are rare among this people ; they never 

 fell one another, nor kill their captives ; nor do they punifh 

 any offence by flavery, though witchcraft among them is 

 a capital offence, and the only one that is invariably fo 

 among them. One of the moft Angular parts of the cha- 

 rafter of the Kroomee, is their extreme love for their own 

 country, and their confident belief in its vaft fuperiority 

 over all others. Every aftion of their lives bears a re- 

 ference to it. With regard to their talents and acqiiire- 

 ments, they are fufSciently acute and obfervant, where the 

 occafion calls their minds into aftion. They have not the 

 afe of letters, nor will they permit their children to learn ; 

 their language in converfation is very bad ; and as they 

 live by daily labour, which is paid for in European goods, 



they have no occafion for manufaftures of their own, and 

 of courfe no opportunity for difplaying their talents. 

 They make their own canoes, fome implements of agri- 

 culture, and a few mufical inftruments. 



SESTRI dt Levante, a town of the Ligurian republic ; 

 12 miles W. of Brugnetto. 



Sestri di Panente, a town of the Ligurian republic ; 

 H miles W. of Genoa. 



SESTUPLA, Ital. in Mufu. See Sextupla. 

 SESVAH, or Ramgl'r, in Geography, a town of Hin- 

 dooftan, in Bahar ; 22 miles E.S.E. of Bettiah. 



SESUVIUM, in Botany, a Linnsean name, whofe de- 

 rivation we are unable to trace. Loefling originally called 

 it Halimum. — Linn. Gen. 250. Schreb. 338. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. V. 2. 1009. Mart. Mill. Di<ft. v. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew, 

 V. 3. 205. Jacq. Amer. 155. Swartz Obf. 204. Juff. 316. 

 Lamarck Dift. v. 7. 141. lUuftr. t. 434. — Clafs and order, 

 Icojandrta Trigynia. Nat. Ord. Succulenia, Linn. Ficeidett, 

 Juif. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, bell-fliaped, 

 deeply cloven into five, ovate, acute, withering fegments, 

 coloured on the infide. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments nu- 

 merous, awl-fltaped, (hortcr than the calyx and inferted at 

 its bafe ; anthers roundifti. Pifl. Germen fuperior, oblong, 

 at the bottom of the calyx, triangular at the upper part ; 

 llyles moftly three, capillary, ered, the length of the fta- 

 mens ; ftigmas fimple. Perk. Capfule ovate, of three cells, 

 burfting all round. Seeds rounded, flattifh, with a beak at 

 the margin. 



Eft. Ch. Calyx deeply five-cleft, coloured. Petals 

 none. Capfule ovate, three-celled, burfting all round, 

 many-feeded. 



I. S. Portulacajlrum. Purflane-leaved Sefuvinm. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 684. Jacq. Amer. t. 95. (Portulaca aizoides ma- 

 ritima procumbens, flore purpureo ; Sloane Jam. v. i. 204. 

 Crithmus indicus ; Rumph. Amboin. v. 6. 165. t. 72. f. 1.) 

 — Stem round. Leaves oppofite, oblong. Flower-ftalks 

 folitary, much fhorter than the leaves. — Native of the Weft 

 Indies, in maritime fituations ; flowering in July and Au- 

 guft. — Root perennial. Stems fucculent, four or five inches 

 long, round, thick, diffufe, branched, at firft procumbent, 

 then ereft. Ltaves on ftiort ftalks, flediy, bright green ; 

 their ftalks ftieathing, with membranous edges. Floiuers 

 folitary, axillary, green on the outfide, white and blood-red 

 or purple on the infide, inodorous. Seeds black. — The 

 whole plant is very fucculent, and abounds with a neutral- 

 alcalefcent fait, which is eafily extrafted, and would probably 

 ferve as a fubftitute for Kali. 



2. S. revolutifolium. Revolute-leaved Sefuvium. " Orteg. 

 PI. Decad 2. 19." Lamarck lUuftr. t. 434. f. 2. — Stems 

 fquare. Leaves obovate-oblong, reflexed at the fides. 

 Flowers feffile. — Native of the ifle of Cuba, flowering in 

 Auguft. Stems herbaceous, fucculent, much branched, 

 forked. Leaves oppofite, ftalked, entire, revolute at their 

 edges ; ftalks (lightly embracing the ftem, furnilhed on each 

 fide with a whiti(h membrane, like a wing. Floiuers foli- 

 tary, tlie upper ones perfeftly felfile, of a purple colour. 

 Seeds kidney-ftiaped, black. 



SET, a term ufed for a pole or (haft, ufed to (hove boats 

 along a canal, &c. 



Set is alfo a term fignifying to let, as land. 

 Set, in j4grieulture and Gardening, a term ufed in Ireland 

 to fignify a fort of ridge. It alfo fignifies a cutting of 

 any fort of fleihy root, (hrub, or tree of the fruit kind. 

 Likewife any fort of young plant from the feed-bed to be 

 planted out. 



Set-o^ in Law, is an aft, by which the defendant ac- 

 knowledges 



