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fortrefles, and pillaged the whole country. His half- 

 brother, Eccojee, was now king of Tanjore ; and the dif- 

 ferent branches of the family were poflefTed of a large 

 portion of the fouth of India. 



The principal dominions of Sevajee were in the tra£l 

 called Concan, extending from the fouth of Sural to the 

 fouth of Goa, which rendered him completely mafter of 

 the weltern Gauts ; from which he was, at all times, able 

 to ilTue and ravage the plain country, while it was impof- 

 fible to force him from his faltnefl'es : hence he was deno- 

 minated by Aurungzebe the mountain rat. Sevajee con- 

 tinued this courfe of aftion till his death in 1680, when he 

 was fucceeded in his conquells by his fon Sambajee. 



SEVANI, in Geography., a town of Perfian Armenia, 

 on a lake ; 40 miles E. of Erivan. 



SEVASTOPOL, a fea-port town of RulTia, in the 

 province of Tauris, on the coaft of the Black fea, with an 

 excellent harbour for men of war ; 80 miles S. of Pereltop. 

 N. lat. 44° 45'. E. long. 33° 24'. 



SEUBELSDORF, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Culmbach ; 6 miles N. of Culmbach. 



SEUBITZ, a town of Germany, in the principality of 

 Culmbach ; 8 miles S.S.E. of Bayreuth. 



SEUCKENDORF, a town of Germany, in the marg- 

 gravate of Anfpach ; 4 miles E. of Langenzen. 



SEUDRE, a river of France, which runs into the fea, 

 oppofite the ifle of Oleron, N. lat. 45° 49'. W. long. 

 1° 5'. 



SEVE, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Seine and Oife, celebrated for its manufafture of china ; 

 li poll S.W. of Paris. 



SEVEKTEN, or Sevekote, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lys ; 10 miles S.W. of Bruges. 



SEVEN, a river of Yorkfhire, which runs into the 

 Derwent. 



Sev'en Ages, rocks in the Caribbean fea, near the S.E. 

 coail of the ifland of Blanca. 



Seven Brothers, a clufter of fmall iflands near the 

 north coaft of Hifpaniola. N. lat. 19° 53'. W. long. 



72° 35'- 



Seven Capes. See Sebba Rous. 



Seven Heads, a promontory of the county of Cork, 

 Ireland, well of Courtmafherry bay, and 6 miles W.S.W. 

 of the old head of Kinfale. N. lat. ?i° aV. W. Ion?. 

 8° 41'. ^ ^ ^ 



Seven Islands, a clufter of fmall iflands in the Ealt 

 Indian fea. S. lat. 1° 9'. E. long. ioj° 21'. 



Seven Islands, a duller of iflands near the weft coaft 

 ©f Sumatra, lying off^ Padang. 



Seven Islands, a clufter of fmall iflands in the Englifli 

 Channel, near the coaft of France. N. lat. 48° 54'. W. 



long- 3° 23'- 



Seven Islands, a republic fo named, lately formed by 

 the union of the iflands of Zante, Cephalonia, Corfu, Ce- 

 rigo, Curzola, St. Maura or Leucadia, and Teaki, confti- 

 tuted about the year 1799, acknowledged by tlie Ottoman 

 Porte, and by the French and Great Britain, at the peace 

 of Amiens, 1802. 



Seven Islands, fmall iflands of Virginia, in James river. 

 N. lat. 37° 40'. W. long. 78' 32'. 



Seven Islands, a clufter of fmall iflands near the coaft 

 of Canada, in the gulf of St. Lawrence. N. lat. 50° 10'. 

 W. long. 66° 5'. 



Seven Islands' Bay, a bay of Canada, on the north 

 fide of the river St. Lawrence. N. lat. co° c'. W. long. 

 66" 2j'. ^ ^ ^ 



Seven Pagodas, a town of Hindoottan, in the Carnatie; 

 30 miles S. of Madras. 



Seven Rocks' Point, a cape in the Englifti Channel, 

 on the coaft of Dorfetfltire.; 3 miles S.W. of Lyme 

 Regis. 



SEVENAER, or Zevenaer, a town of Germany, in 

 the duchy of Cleves ; 10 miles N. of Cleves. 



SEVENBERGEN, a town of Dutch Brabant ; 8 miles 

 N.W. of Breda. 



SEVENNES, or Cevennes, mountains of France, 

 crofting the department of the Lozere, particularly me- 

 morable as being the ftrong hold of the Proteftants in the 

 17th century, and beginning of the 18th. 



SEVENOAKS, or Sevenoke, a market-town, in a 

 parifli of the fame name, hundred of Codsheath, lathe of 

 Sutton at Hone, and county of Kent, England, is fituated 

 on high ground at the diftance of 16 miles W. by N. from 

 Maidllone, and 33 miles S.E. from London. In the 

 Textus Roffenfis the name is writtea Seauanacca, and is 

 faid to have been fuggefted by the circumftance of a clufter 

 of feven large oaks growing on the fcite of the town, at the 

 time of its foundation. The principal building here is the 

 church, wiiich forms a confpicaous objeft for feveral miles 

 round the country. It formerly contained a chantry chapel, 

 founded by fir Henry Gawdy, who was buried within it. 

 The only monument of note is that of William Lambarde, 

 the celebrated Kentifli antiquary, whofe family had a feat 

 in this parifli. Here are an alms-houfe and free-fchool, 

 originally built and endowed by fir William de Sevenoke, 

 in the beginning of the 15th century. They were fubfe- 

 qucntly incorporated under the title of the free grammar- 

 fchool of queen Elizabeth, and now poffefs a revenue of 

 nearly 1000/. a-year. The fchool-houfe was rebuilt in 

 1727, at which time the alms-houfe was fubftantially re- 

 paired. The former has fix exhibitions to either univerfity, 

 and the latter affords an afylum to thirty-two elderly 

 trades-people, who have a weekly allowance in money. 

 This town confifts chiefly of two w^ide rtreets, in one of 

 which ftands the ancient market-houfe, where the allizes 

 were frequently held during the reign of queen Elizabeth, 

 and where the petty feflions for the lathe of Sutton at Hone 

 are ftill held. Many of the lioufes are large and rcfpedlable 

 manfions, inhabited by independent families. The market- 

 day here is Saturday, weekly ; and there are two annual 

 fairs on the loth of .Inly and the 22d of Oftober. Seven- 

 oaks town and parifli conftitute a liberty, governed by a 

 warden or bailiff and four afliftants, who are net, however, 

 empowered to hold any court of record for pleas. Ac- 

 cording to the parliamentary returns of 1811, this hberty 

 contains 638 houfes and 3444 inhabitants, of whom about 

 1500 refide in the town. Hiftory and Topographical 

 Survey of Kent, by Edward Hafted, 8vo. 1797, vol. iii. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. viii. by E. W. Bray- 

 ley, 8vo. 1 805. 



SEVENTH, Septima, in Mufic, an interval, called by 

 the Greeks heptachordon ; of which there are four kinds. 



The firft, the defective or dimini/hed feventh, confifting of 

 three tones, and three greater femitones, as from ut (harp 

 to ft flat : its ratio is 1 28 to 75. 



The fecond, called by Zarlini, and the Italians, yfm;V/;Vtf/)o 

 con dtapente, or fettimo minore, is compofed diatonically of 

 feven degrees, and fix intervals, four of which are tones, 

 and the reft greater femitones, as from de to vt ; and chro- 

 matically of ten femitones, fix of which are greater, and 

 four lefs : it takes its form from the ratio guadripartiens 

 quint as, 9 to 5. 



The third, called by the Italians i7 ditono con diapeate, or 



Jcllima 



