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differ as to their height ; from fifty cubits to eighty ell?. 

 Their origin, age, and fex, are alfo varioufly related. The 

 few Hindoos who live in the neighbourhood, fay, they are the 

 ftatues of one of their heroes named Bhini, and his confort. 

 Bhim is one of the five famous Pandu;;. (See Pandu.) 

 The followers of Budha call them by the names firll men- 

 tioned. The Mahommedans lay, they are of Adam and 

 Eve ; and a third ftatue, half a mile diftant, about twenty 

 feet high, they fay is of Seth, their fon. The author of a 

 celebrated Perfian didionary, entitled " Farhang Jehangiry," 

 fays they exifted in the time of Noah ; but gives them 

 other names. There can be little doubt but thefe llatues, 

 and the wonderful excavations of the city of Bamian, 

 fcooped, like Thebes, oiit of a mountain, were executed 

 by the fame indefatigable race of workmen, who in the 

 more fouthern parts of India conftrufted the gigantic 

 ftatucs ill the fimilar caverns at Kenera, on the ifland of 

 Salfettc, near Bombay, in the province of Kanara, and 

 at Karly ; all believed to be of Jaina or Budhaic origin. 

 See Jaina, Karly, and Kenera. 



SHAHBUNDER, in Geography, a town of Hin. 

 dooftan, in the province of Tatta ; 4; miles S.S.W. of 

 Tatta. 



SHAHDOURAS, a town of Hindooftan, m the cir- 

 car of Sirhind ; 10 miles N. of Tannafar. 



SHAHG, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore; 18 miles 

 S. of Vencatighery. 



SHAHJEHAN, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 

 18 miles N.W. of Bahar.— Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Rohilcund ; 45 miles S. of PiUibeat. 



SHAHJEHANPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Malwa ; 20 miles N.E. of Ougein. N. lat. 23° 26'. E. 

 long. 76" 18'. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 30 

 miles S.E. of Fyzabad. N. lat.. 26^ 26'. E. long. 82° 

 40'. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Mewat ; zo miles 

 W. of Alvar. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 

 14 miles S.S.E. of Patna. N. lat. 25° 24'. E. long. 



85° 3°'- 



SHAHIGIAN, a town of Perfia, in the provmce of 



Khorafan, near Maru, which fince is called Maru Sha- 



hig'mn. 



SHAHJOLE, a circar of Bengal, bounded on the 

 north by Raujelhy, on the eaft by Mahmudftii, on the fouth 

 by Jeflbre, and on the weft by Kiflienagur ; about 30 miles 

 long, and from 5 to 10 broad. 



SHAHISABI, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Khorafan, on the borders of Bucharia ; 80 miles N. of 

 Maru. 



SHAHI-SHAK, a town of Perfia, in the province 

 of Khorafan, on the borJersi of Bucharia ; 5 miles N. of 

 Maru. 



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SHAHPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore; 30 

 miles W. of Nagorcote. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Lahore ; 27 miles E. of Sealcot. 



SHAHR and Van, the ancient /Ipollonla, a town of 

 the pachalic of Bagdad, 27 miles from Bacouba, which 

 is nine furfungs from Bagdad, peopled by about 40CO 

 Turks and Kurds, and is, upon the whole, a handfome 

 little town, watered by two canals drawn from the Diala. 

 At the diftance of i8 miks is Kuzil Roobat, not fo large 

 as the former, fituated in a fandy plain, about one mile 

 from the river Diala. Khanakie is alfo a handfome little 

 town, built on that branch of the Diala, which has its 

 fource in the mountains of Kurzend, i8 miles from Kuzil 

 Roobat ; it occupies both banks of the river, over which 

 is a handfome bridge, and is furrounded by numerous gar- 

 dens and plantations. Mendeli, about the fame fize as 

 Soly mania, is fituated in one of the roads leading to Ker- 

 manftiaw ; and four furfungs on the Bagdad fide is a foun- 

 tain of naphtha. Thirteen leagues from Mendeli, and four 

 from the foot of the mountains, is Bedri, the frontier town, 

 in this quarter of the Turkifti empire. 



SHAIGI, a town of Nubia, on an ifland in the Nik; 

 130 miles E. of Dongala. N. lat. 20° 20'. E. long. 



50' 45'- 



SHAIGOL, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kho- 

 rafan ; 10 miles S.W. of Maru. 



SHAIMA, a tovs-n of Perfia, in the province of Me- 

 cran, on the fea-coaft ; 200 miles W.S.W. of Kidge. 



SHAINT, or HoLV, Isles, three fmall iflands of 

 the Hebrides, or Weftern ifles, are fituated in the chan- 

 nel between the ifles of Lewis and Skye, in the parifh 

 of Lochs and diftrict of Lewis. Thefe iflands are well 

 known to mariners, and are remarkable for their fine ftiecp 

 pafturage. One of them, called St. Mary's ifland, has a 

 fmall chapel upon it, dedicated to the Virgin, and bears 

 marks of having been formerly better inhabited than at 

 prefent. Sinclair's Statiftical Account of Scotland, vol. xix. 

 8vo. 



SHAINYMALY, a town of Hindooftan, in Coimbe- 

 tore ; 12 miles S. of Erroad. 



SHAIZAR, a town of Syria, in the pachalic of Da- 

 mafcus, on the Orontes ; 20 miles N. of Hamah. 



SHAK, a town of Perfia, in the province of Schirvan ; 

 20 miles N.W. of Schamachie. 



SHAKE, in Mufic, is a grace, an embellifliment of 

 melody, of wh'ch the indication is a h, or fometimcs 

 only /, the initial of the Italian term trillo, which im- 

 plies the fame thing. There are two kinds of fhakes, the 

 continued, and the tranfient. The continued fliake, upon 

 a long note, mull be pradlifed at firft by incipients, flow, 

 and accelerated by degrees. The efteft of a ftiake is a 

 rapid motion of two adjoining notes : as de, be, Sec. 



In our dida£^ic and elementary articles, we fliould not 

 wifh to confine ourfelves to mere dry definitions of terms 

 of art ; but, having had fome little experience, we would 

 gladly aflift ftudents, by pointing out the means of acquir- 

 ing the praftical ufe of what we defcribe. 



With regard to a vocal fliake, we can do young fingers no 

 greater kindnefs, than in referring them to the 3d chap, 

 of Tofi's " Obfervation? on florid Song," as admirably 

 tranflated by GaUiard, and illuftrated with the notes of 

 that able and experienced matter. 



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Tofi, after informing the ftudent of the importance cf 

 the ftiake to fingers, fays, " Let the matter ftrive to enable 

 his fcholar to attain a fliake that is equal, diftinftly marked, 

 eafy, and moderately quick, which are its moll beautiful 

 requifitcs." 



This excellent author defcribes the different kinds of 

 fliakes, and their preparation, that are worth cultivating, 

 as well as thofe that are to be avoided. The free and open 

 fhake on the whole tone and the femitoney are certainly the 

 principal. 



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