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produftive, though in a great meafure fufceptible of cul- 

 ture, and though mod of its lands are very fertile. But 

 diftance from the capital, want of harbours, and the incon- 

 fiderate injuftice of the agas, and almoft every other circum- 

 llance, contribute to render the inhabitants of this part of 

 the ifland more indolent than the others. Contented with 

 gathering com and fruit for their fubfiftence, oil for paying 

 their taxes, and procuring for themfelves a few clothes, 

 and the utenfils neceflary for their family, they are not eager 

 to feize from the earth a furplus of produAions, which 

 would render them more fubjeft to the oppreflion and 

 fpoliation of the agas. The town is fituated on a flat fhore, 

 ■which with a cape not much advanced, and three iflets 

 placed at upwards of a league's diftance, proteft it feebly 

 from the N. and N.E. winds. When the Venetians were 

 mafters of the illand, it was tolerably well fortified, and 

 fufficiently peopled. They conftrufted a mole, in order to 

 Ihelter the veflels which came thither to load with the pro- 

 duftions of the province, or which brought thofe that were 

 neceflary to fupply the wants of the inhabitants. At this 

 day none but fmall boats may be feen at Settia. The po- 

 pulation has diminiflied confiderably, and the fortifications 

 are in the greateft diforder. It is the fee of a Greek bifhop ; 

 44 miles £.S.£. of Candia. N. lat. 35° 3'. E. long. 

 26° 3'. 



SETTIAVERAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the cir- 

 car of Cicacole ; 30 miles S.W. of Coffimcotta. 



SETTIMA, Ital., in Mufic, the interval of theyf•yfn//r,■ 

 which fee. 



SETTIMANA Santa, Ital., paffion-week, during 

 which holy time, the facred mufic of the higheit clafs ufed 

 to be performed in the mott perfedl and imprefllve manner 

 • in the pontifical chapel. See Miserere and Allegri. 



SETTIMO, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Po ; 8 miles N. of Turin. — Alfo, a town 

 of Italy, in the department of the Tefino ; 5 miles N.N.E. 

 of Pavia. 



SETTING, in AJlronomy, the withdrawing of a ftar or 

 planet ; or its finking below the horizon. 



Aftronomers and poets make three different kinds of 

 fetting of the ftars : cnfmical, acronichal, and heliacal. 



To find the times of the fetting of the iun and itars, fee 

 Globe. 



Setting, in Seamanjhip. To fet the land, or the fun, 

 by the compafs, is to obferve how the land bears on any 

 point of the compafs, or on what point of the compafs the 

 fun is; likcwife the aft of obferving the fituation of any 

 diftant objeft by the compafs, in order to difcover the angle 

 which it makes with the nearelt meridian : as at feven pnjl 

 meridian, we fet the tover of Arabia near the port of 

 Alexandria, and it bore S.S.E. diftant four leagues by 

 eftimation. (See Bearing.) Alfo, wlien two (hips fail 

 . in fight ot one another, to mark on what point the chafed 

 bears, is termed Jetting the chafe by the cimpafs. 



Setting alio denotes the direttion of tlie wind, current, 

 or fea, but partic\ibrly the two latter ; as, the tide, which 

 fets to the fouth, is oppofed to a fwelling fea, fetting to 

 the north-weft. 



Setting, when applied to the fails, is the ioofing and 

 expanding them, fo as to give the (hip motion, or to acce- 

 lerate her vch.city, when (he is already moving, and perhaps 

 give a new dircftion to her motion. It is ufed in contra- 

 dillinftion to taking-in the fails, as looiing or heaviiig-out 

 is oppofed to furling or ftowing them. 



Setting, in the language of Sporlfmcn, a term ufed 

 to cxprefs a manner of attacking partridges, in order 

 to the taking of them by means of a dog peculiarly 



trained to that purpofe. The fetting-dog generally ufed is 

 a long land-fpaniel, taught by nature to hunt partridges 

 more than any other game, and in his untaught ftate 

 running over the fields in fearch of them, with an alacrity 

 that is truly wonderful ; yet by art this creature is brought 

 under fuch excellent command, that he will, in the midft 

 of his higheft career, attend to the leaft hem from his 

 mafter, and ftand ftill to look in his face, and take his 

 orders \>y the (lighteft fignals ; and when he is fo near his 

 game, that it is almott in his mouth, he will ftand ftill, or 

 lie down on his belly till his mafter arrive, and he receives 

 his direftions. 



The fetting-dog being taken to the haunt of the 

 partridges is to be caft off, and fent to range ; but he muit 

 be made to keep near the fportfman, and not to run 

 wildly on, but to beat all the ground regularly. On being 

 reproved for ranging too widely and too far, he will keep 

 clofe the whole day, ai»d at times look up in his mafter's 

 face, to know if he does right or wrong. If in the dog's 

 ranging he ftop of a fudden, the fportlman is to make up 

 to him, and as there is certainly game before him, he muft 

 be ordered to advance ; if he refufes this and look back 

 and (hake his tail, it is a fignal that they are clofe before 

 him, and the fportfman is then to take a circumference, 

 and look with a carelefs eye before the dog's nofe to fee where 

 they are, and how they lie ; then going up, and (taking 

 down one end of the net, he is to command the dog to lie 

 ftill, and to draw the net gently over the birds ; then making 

 in witli a noife, he is to fpring them, and they will be en- 

 tangled and taken as they rife. It is a rule with fair fportf- 

 men, when they take a covey in this manner, always to let 

 the cock and hen go. 



Setting, among Coci-Majlers, is the placing a cock 

 that has fought fo that he cannot ftand, beak to beak 

 againlt the other cock, and if he does not ftrike, the battle 

 is won. 



SETTiNG-^own, in Falconry, is when a hawk is put into 

 mew. 



SETTiNG-(/of, one trained up to find out and difcover to 

 the fportfman whereabout fowls are. See Spaniel and 

 Dog. 



Setting-i/4, in Sh'tp-ButUtng, is raifing a ftiip by (hores 

 and wedges from her blocks, the aft of extending the 

 (hrouds, ftays, and back-ftays, to fecure the mafts, by the 

 apphcation of tackles, &c. 



Setting, or Setting-to, the aft of making the planks, 

 &c. fay or fet clofe to the timbers, by driving wedges 

 between the plank, &c. and wrain-ftaff. Hence " (et, or 

 fet away," means to exert more ftrength. The power or 

 engine ufed for this purpofe is fimplc, and called ajett, and 

 is coinpofcd of two ring-bolts, and a wraiu-ftaff, cleats aud 

 la(hing, or (hores. 



Setting, in /Igriculture and Gardening, the bufinefs of 

 putting fets of difterent kinds into the (ground, as thofe of 

 the potatoe, hop, madder, liquorice, lavender, and many 

 other kinds. 



Setting out Plants, the praftice of thinning and reducing 

 them ; in the former, to their proper diftances, in order to 

 ftand for crops, as in the turnip, cabbage, and many other 

 forts of plants ; and, in the latter, the bufineis of putting 

 them into the ground as crops; it being praftifed for a 

 great many different forts of plants that are raifed on feed- 

 beds, as all the cabbage kind, lettuces, endives, beet^, and 

 many otlier plants of a fimiiar nature. It is ufually per- 

 formed as (01 in as the plants have acquired a proper ftate of 

 growth in the leed-bcds, and moftly when the weather is 

 cloudy and rather moift, as it can then be done to the 



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