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k fuppofed to be purchafed by the porter-brewers in 

 London. 



In confequence of vapours and miafmata, occafioned by 

 llagnant water, and by frequent floods, the inhabitants of 

 Sevilk and its neighbourhood are fubjeft to tertians, to 

 putrid fevers, and to hyfterical diforders. The predifpofi- 

 tion to fuch difeafes may be likewife fought for in the 

 quantity of cucumbers and melons confumed by them all 

 the year, in confequence of which they are likewife in- 

 fefted with worms, accompanied with epileplles, efpecially 

 in the more youthful fubjedls. Other difeafes arife from 

 heat, whenever they have the Solano wind, that is, when- 

 ever the wind blows from Africa, they become liable to 

 pleurifies, and alfo a very pernicious irritabihty of nerves. 

 N. lat. 37° 12'. W. long. 6= 8\ 



Sevilla dclOro. See Macas. 



Seville Plantation, a place on the N. coall of Jamaica, 

 W. of Mammee bay, where are the ruins of an ancient town, 

 called " Sevilla Nueva," founded by Efquival on the fpot 

 where Columbus refided after his ftiipwreck in the year 



SEVILLETA, a town of New Mexico ; lOO miles S. 

 of Santa Fe. 



SEVIN, Francis, in Biography, a man of letters, born 

 in the diocefe of Sens, was educated at Paris, where he 

 purfued, with great ardour, the ftudy of the learned lan- 

 guages, in company with the abbe Fourmont the elder. 

 He became an aflbciate of the Academy of Belles Lettres in 

 Paris in 1714. He was fent in 1728, by the king's com- 

 mand, with the abbe Fourmont the younger, to Conttan- 

 tinople, in fearch of MSS., of which he brought back a 

 great number, and was, in 1737, prefented with the place 

 of keeper of MSS. in the king's library. His letters, de- 

 fcriptive of this journey, were publiflied in 1 801, in one vol. 

 8vo. Thefe contain feveral interefting details concerning 

 Turkey, Egypt, &c. Sevin died in 1 741. Several of his 

 papers are publi(hed in the " Memoires de I'Acad. des 

 Infcriptions." 



SEVION, in Geography, a river of North Wales, which 

 runs into the Clyde ; 3 miles N.W. of St. Afaph. 



SEVIR, among the Romans, an officer who, according 

 to Pitifcus, commanded a whole wing of horfe ; though 

 others make him only the commander of a troop, turmis, a 

 divifion anfwering to our regiments. 



SEVIRI were alfo magiftrates in the colonies, fo called, 

 from their being fix in number. 



SEURAH, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bundelcund ; 18 miles N. of Callinger. 



SEVRE, or Se-ure Nantoife, a river of France, which 

 rifes about eight miles W. from Parthenay, pafles by Mor- 

 tagne, Tiffauges, ClifTon, &c. and runs into the Loire, 

 oppofite to Nantes. 



Sevre Niortoife, a river of France, which rifes near 

 St. Maixent, pafles by Niort, Marance, &c. and runs into 

 the fea ; 7 miles W. of Marance. 



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

 Seine and Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 

 of Verfailles. The place contains 2643, ^"d the canton 

 3485 inhabitants, on a territory of 50 kiliometres, in eight 

 communes. 



Sevres, Two-, one of the nine departments of the weftem 

 region of France, formerly Lower Poitou, between Vendee 

 and Vienne, in N. lat. 46° 30', containing 6337^ kiliometres, 

 or 305 fquare leagues, and 242,6)8 inhabitants. This 

 department comprehends 4 dillridts, 30 cantons, and 

 363 communes. The dillricls or circles are. Thenars, in- 

 cluding 43,543 ; Parthenay, 53,020 ; Niort, 84,923 ; and 



SEW 



Melle, 61,167 inhabitants. Its capital is Niort. Accord- 

 ing to Haflenfratz, the extent is 32 French leagues in 

 length, and 12 in breadth : the number of circles is 6, and 

 of cantons 50, and the population is 259,122. The con- 

 tributions in the nth year of the French era amounted to 

 2,556,115 francs; and the expences for adminillration, 

 juitice, and public inftruftion, to 233,694 francs 66 cents. 

 The foil of this department, in general, is fertile, yielding 

 grain, wine, fruits, and paftures. The S.W. diftriA is 

 marfhy. 



SEVRI, a river of Natolia, which runs into the Sa- 

 karia, near Sevrihifar. 



SEVRIHISAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, 

 at the conflux of the Sevri and Sakaria ; 60 miles W. of 

 Angora. N. lat. 39° 53'. E. long. 32° 2'. 



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

 Cote d'Or, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 Beaune ; 21 miles S. of Dijon. The place contains 2777, 

 and the canton 11,546 inhabitants, on a territory of 280 

 kihometres, in 23 communes. N. lat. 46" 58'. E. long. 

 5° 12'. 



SEVSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Orel, 

 on the Sev ; 56 miles S.W. of Orel. N. lat. 52° 15'. E. 

 long. 34° 44'. 



SEUTZACH, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 

 Zurich ; 17 miles N.N.E. of Zurich. 



SEVYNVEY, a river of South Wales, which runs into 

 the Clethy, in Pembrokefliire. 



SEW, in Sea Language, the fituation of a Ihip when the 

 water firit leaves her relling on the ground, or blocks in a 

 dock. Thus, if a fhip runs a-ground on the tide of ebb, 

 or by the reflux of the tide (he reils on her blocks ; and if 

 it be required to know flic has fewed, or how much flie has 

 fewed, the mark the water-line has made on her bottom 

 when afloat is examined, and as much as is the difference 

 above the furface of the water and this mark, fo much flie 

 is faid to have fewed. 



Sew is alfo a term applied to a cow, fignifying to go dry. 

 SEWAD, or SowHAD, in Geography, a province of 

 Candahar, fituated on the W. fide of the Indus, which 

 feparates it from Puckhoh ; 40 cofles long and 1 5 broad. 

 This province, as well as Bijore, is very mountainous, and 

 abounds with pafles and llrong fituations ; fo that their 

 inhabitants have not only held themfelves generally inde- 

 pendent of the Mogul emperors, but have occafionally made 

 very furious inroads into their territories. The country 

 of the Aflaceni, or Aflacani, aiifwers to Sewad ; Aflienagur 

 being the ancient name of Sewad ; or rather Sewad was one 

 of the fubdivifions of Aflienagur. At prefent Sewad in- 

 eludes the three provinces of Sewad proper, Bijore, and 

 Beneer. 



Sewad, the eafternmoft. and largeft of the four rivers 

 that unite fuccedively with the river Cabul, before it falls 

 into the Indus ; the other three being that which pafles by 

 the town of Bijore, the Penjakoreh river, feparating Bijore 

 on the W. from Sewad on the E., and the Chendoul river, 

 which is a branch of the Bijore river. 



SEWALICK, or Sewa-luck, a chain of mountains 

 forming the northern boundary of Hindoollan, and fepa- 

 rating the country of Lahore from Thibet. 



SEWAN, or Allic.unce, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Bahar ; 32 miles N.N. W. of Chuprah. N. lat. 26° 11'. 

 E. long 84° 32'. 



SEWARD, TllO.MAs, in Biography, an Englifli divine 

 of the churtli of England, was born in 1708. He became 

 reftorof Eyam, in Derbyfliirc, and prebendary of Litchfield, 

 where he died in 1 790. He was a man of talte and learn- 



