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ing, and of confiderable talents for poetry and polite lite- 

 rature. He publidied an edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's 

 works, and was author of a treatife on the " Conformity 

 between Popery and Paganifm." Some of his poems are in 

 Dodfley's coUeftion. 



Seward, Anna, daughter of the preceding, a 

 poetefs of diftinguifhed elegance, was born about the year 

 1745. Her infant mind was nourifhed by her father with 

 the vivid and fublime imagery of Milton, and her early 

 education amidll the wild and alpine fcenery of the Peak, 

 enhanced the enthufiafm of feehng to which (he was natu- 

 rally difpofed. In her feventh year, her father being 

 appointed canon refidentiary of Litchfield, (lie removed 

 with the family to that city, which thenceforth became 

 her refidence during the whole of her life. The fruit of 

 her father's inttruftions appeared in fome early efforts at 

 poetical compofition, which, however, met with difcourage- 

 Hient from her mother; and Mr. Seward was afterwards 

 induced to withdraw the countenance he had given to her 

 literary purfuits ; fo that feveral years of her youth elapfed 

 with only ftolen and interrupted attempts to cultivate an 

 art of which fhe had fo ftrongly imbibed the rudiments. 

 As fhe advanced in life, (he of courfe followed more freely 

 the bent of her genius, and in 1780 fhe publifhed an 

 «' Elegy on Captain Cook," a performance of great merit, 

 as well from the harmony of its verfification, as the beau- 

 tiful and appropriate imagery with which it abounds, and 

 the force and delicacy of its fentiments. The contraft be- 

 tween the different mourners on this event, queen Oberea, 

 and the wife of the great navigator, is peculiarly (Iriking. 

 In the following year (he gave the world a " Monody on 

 Major Andre." With this lamented young officer (he was 

 intimately acquainted : flie accordingly wrote with pecu- 

 liar pathos on the occafion, and expreffed a glowing, and 

 we fcruple not to fay, a juft indignation againlt the adors 

 in that tragedy : the laws of what are called civilized war 

 do not and ought not to fupprefs the feelings of humanity. 

 Mifs Seward made herfelf known as a writer on many other 

 topics: in 1790 fhe publifhed " Llangollen Vale," with 

 other poems ; and in 1804 fhe gave the public " Memoirs 

 of the Life of Dr. Darwin." This is a defultory per- 

 formance, but it contains much entertaining matter, en- 

 riched with fome judicious criticifm on Dr. Darwin's poeti- 

 cal character. Mifs Seward died in March 1809. A col- 

 leftion of her letters has been publifhed fince her deceale, in 

 fix vols. 1 zmo. Athenzum. Monthly Mag. 



Seward, William, was the fon of a brewer in London, 

 and born in 1797. He received his education at the Charter 

 Houfe, which he completed at Oxford ; this place he left 

 without taking a degree. Having a good fortune, he de- 

 voted his life to literary eafe, and antiquarian refearches. 

 He is known as an author by five volumes of " Anecdotes 

 of diftinguifhed Perfons," extrafted from curious books, 

 to which he added a fupplement, in tw-o volumes, under the 

 title of " Biographiana." Europ. Mag. 



SEWARY, in Geography, a town of Hindooflan, in the 

 circar of Surgooja ; 22 miles E. of Surgooja. 



SEWEE, a country of Afia, between Perfia and Hin- 

 dooftan, on the W. fide of the Indus. 



Sewee Bay, or Bull's Harbour, a bay of the Atlantic, 

 on the coalt of South Carohna. N. lat. 32° 58'. 



SEWEESTAN, a country of Hindooltan, between 

 Sewee and the Indus, about no miles long and 50 broad. 



SEWEL, among Sport/men, denotes any thing that is 

 fet or hung up, to keep a deer out of any place. 



SEVIEL-Coronde, a name given by the natives of Ceylon 

 to a fpecies of cinnamon, which, when chewed, is of a 



mucilaginous nature, like the caffia : this dries well, and is 

 very firm and haid, and has the appearance of a very fine 

 cinnamon ; but it has very little tafte, and a difagreeable 

 fmell. The natives take advantage of the handfome ap- 

 pearance of this kind of cinnamon, and are very apt to mis 

 it with the good kind, to the great detriment of the buyer. 

 Phil. Tranf. N" 409. 



SEWER, formed from the French efcuyer, efquire, gentle- 

 man, or ufier, in the Houfehold, an officer who comes in before 

 the meat of a king, or nobleman, to place and range it on 

 the table. Of thefe officers there are four in the king's 

 houfehold, and eight, called fewers of the great chamber. 



Sewers, in Building, are (hores, conduits, or conveyances, 

 for the fuiUage and filth of a houfe. 



Sewers, Clerk of the. See Clerk. 



Sewers, Commiffion of. See Co.\iMissio>f. 



SEWIN, in Ichthyology. See Grey. 



SEWL, in ylgriculture, provincially a plough. It is 

 foffietimes writtenya/c. See Plough. 



SEWNADY, in Geography, a town of Hindooflan, in 

 the circar of Ruttunpour ; 35 miles N. of Ruttunpour. 



SEWNY, a town of Hindooltan, in Goondwanah ; 60 

 miles N.N.E. of Nagpour. 



SEX, Sexus, fomething in the body, which diftinguifhcs 

 male from female. See Generation. 



The number of perfons, of the two fexes, are exceedingly 

 well balanced ; fo that every man may have his wife, and 

 every woman her hufband. 



Hermaphrodites have the apparent marks of both fexes. 



It isexprefsly forbidden by the law of Mofes, to difguife 

 the fex. 



SEXAGENARY, Sexagenarius, fomething relating 

 to the number fixty : more particularly a perfon arrired at 

 the age of fixty years. 



Some cafuifts difpenfe with fexagenarians for not falling ; 

 the Papian law prohibits fexagenarii from marriage ; be- 

 caufe at that age the blood and humours are frozen. 



Sexagenary Arhhmetic. See Sexagesimal. 



Sexagenary Tables, are tables of proportional parts, 

 fhewing the produft of two fexagenaries that are to be mul- 

 tiplied ; or the quotient of two to be divided. 



SEXAGESIMA, the fecond Sunday before Lent, or 

 the next to Shrove Sunday ; fo called, as being about the 

 fixtieth day before Eafter. 



Sexagefima is that which follows Septuagefima, and pre- 

 cedes Quinquagefima. 



SEXAGESIMAL, or Sexagenary Arithmetic, a me- 

 thod of computation, proceeding by fixties. 



Such IS that ufed in the divifion of a degree into fixty 

 minutes ; of the mioute, into fixty feconds ; of the fecond, 

 into fixty thirds, &c. See Arithmetic. 



SEXAGESIMALS, or Sexagesimal Fraaions, are 

 fraiftions, whofe denominators proceed in a fexagecuple 

 ratio ; that is, a prime, or the firft minute =; ^V j a fecond 

 ^^ tttVit ! a thira =:; -jr-rj-'irtnT' 



Anciently there were no other than fexagefimals ufed in 

 ailronomical operations, and they are Hill retained in many 

 cafes ; though decimal arithmetic is now much ufed in ailro- 

 nomical calculations. 



In thefe fraftions, which fome alfo call aftronomical frac- 

 tions, the denominator being always 60, or a multiple of it, 

 is ufually omitted, and the numerator only written down : 

 thus, 4°, 59', 32", 50'", 1 5"", is to be read, 4 degrees, 

 59 minutes, 32 feconds of a degree, or 60th parts of a minute, 

 50 thirds, 16 fourths, &c. 



SEXANGLE, in Geometry, a figure having fix fides, 

 and confequently fix angles. 



SEXDRAGA, 



