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a flcetch of what, had his life been fpared, he intended to 

 accomplifh in completing the General Zoology. In 1807, 

 upon the death of Dr. Gray, keeper of Natural Hiftory in 

 the Britifh Mufeum, Dr. Shaw was promoted to that office. 

 An abridgment of the Tranfaftions of the Royal Society was 

 begun in 1809, of which the department of natural hillory 

 fell to the lot of Dr. Shaw. It is faid he abridged 1500 dif- 

 tindl articles, which he rendered Hill more intcreiting than the 

 originals, by the infertion of Linnxan and fpecific name?, and 

 by occafional annotations, and confiderable references to fub- 

 fequent authors of mod celebrity, who had treated on thefe 

 fubjefts. Thii< was the lalt work in which he engaged. His 

 time was wholly occupied upon the " Naturaliil's Mifcel- 

 lany" and the " General Zoology," wlien death terminated 

 his aftive and very ufeful life on the 22d of July, 1813, in 

 the 62d year of his age. His illnefs was but of a few days' 

 continuance : his fenfcs and his recollection only forfook 

 him with his breath. He died, as he had lived, with philo- 

 fophic compofure and forenity of mind, which neither the 

 acute pains which he endured, nor the awful change which 

 he was well aware he was about to experience, could in any 

 degree difturb. 



" As few men have left behind them a charafter more 

 eftimable, hi- name will be tranfmitted to pollerity among 

 thofe who give lultre to their age and country, who do 

 honour to human nature by their virtues, and who contri- 

 bute to the advancement of fcience, and the interells of 

 literature, by their fnperior talents. Endowed by nature 

 with confiderable intelleftual parts, and thefe improved by 

 afliduous cultivation, he acquired a vaft ftock of general 

 knowledge. His extenfive information was treafured up 

 without confufion, applied in his works with difcernmcnt, 

 and communicated to every enquirer with cheerfulnefs and 

 freedom." Gentleman's Magazine, 1813, p. 290. 



SliAW, Stebbinc, a divine and antiquary, was born at 

 Stowe, in StafFordlhire, in 1762, and educated fird at Repton 

 fchool, and afterwards at Queen's college, Cambridge, 

 where he took his degrees and obtained a fellowfhip. In 

 1787 he made a tour in the Highlands of Scotland, of which 

 he publifhed an account without his name. In the following 

 year he made another tcur in the weft of England, an ac- 

 count of which he alfo publiflied. In 1789 he commenced, 

 in conjunflion with a friend, a periodical publication, called 

 The Topographer, chiefly coniifting of extrafts made from 

 curious books and MSS. in the Britifli Mufeum. This 

 work was difcontinued in about two years. He next under- 

 took tlie " Hiftory of Staffordfliire," of which the firft vol. 

 in folio, was publiftied in 1798 : m 1801 the firft part of 

 the fecond volume was given to the public, and he died in 

 1803. 



Shaw, in our Old Writers, a grove of trees, or a wood. 



Shaw Fowl, an artificial fowl made for fowlers to 

 fhoot at. 



Shaw'j- IJlaiid, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the 

 North Pacific ocean, at the entrance of Cook's Inlet. N. 

 lat. 59°. E. long. 207° 16'. 



SHAWABAD, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Rantampour ; 35 miles S. of Suifopour. 



SHAWANEE, a town of America, in the county of 

 Randolph, and territory of Illinois, containing 830 in- 

 habitants. 



SHAWANESE, the denomination of a tribe of In- 

 dians who inhabit Louifiana, on the Millifippi and St. 

 Francis. The number of warriors is 300 ; that of the in- 

 habitants 800 : their trade requires looo dollars of merchan- 

 dife : the value of their returns is 3000 ; their commerce 

 is carried on in their villages or fettlements. The Indians 



of this tribe have four towns on the Tallapoofee river. By 

 the treaty of peace, Aug. 3, 1795, the United States 

 agreed to pay this tribe a fum in hand, and looo dollars 

 annually for ever in goods. They inhabit on the Scioto 

 river, and 3 branch of the Mufliingum, and have their 

 hunting grounds between Ohio river and lake Erie. They 

 are generally of a fmall fize, rather handfome in their fea- 

 tures, and a cheerful crafty people. CounfeUing among 

 the elder, and dancing among the young men and women^ 

 take up a great part of then- time. 



SHAWANGUNK, a poft-town in Ulfter county, New 

 York ; containing 2809 inhabitants ; 20 miles from Goflien 

 and 1 2 from New Pelta. 



SHAWGUNGE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude, on 

 the left bank of Dewah, oppofite to Fyiabad. 



SHAWGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Allahabad; 

 32 miles N. of Gazypour. 



SHAWIA, in Botany, received its name in honour of 

 the celebrated oriental traveller, Dr. Tiiomas Shaw, who 

 has given a catalogue, in alphabetical order, accompanied 

 with rude plates, of the rarer plants, obferved by him in 

 Barbary, Egypt, and Arabia. The fpecies amount to 

 632, and the catalogue i'; enriched with fevcral fynonyms, 

 as well as occafional defcriptions and remarks. His dried 

 fpecimens arc prcferved at Oxford. The orthography of 

 the name is attended with difficulty to foreigners, our tv 

 being as unmanageable to them, as their multiplied confo- 

 nants are to us. Some of them blunder into Schawia, 

 Shaavia, or Shav'ta. Perhaps the latter might be tolerated, 

 were it not for the ludicrous ambiguity of Shavius itfelf, 

 applied by facetious Oxonians to the above famous tra- 

 veller and his namefakes. — Forft. Gen. t. 48. Prodr. 58. 

 Schreb. Gen. 595. Mart. Mill- Did. v. 4. JufT. 180. 

 Lamarck Diil. v. 7. 148. — Clafs and order, Syiigenrfia 

 Aloiwjamia, Forfter. 5. Polygam'ia-fegrcgatiz, Schreb. Nat. 

 Ord. Compofila difioidetz, Linn. Corymblfera, Juil. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth imbricated, cylindrical, of five 

 or fix oblong fcales ; the three innermoft longcll, and nearly 

 equal. Cor. of one patal, funncl-lhaped, fhort ; limb in 

 five linear fpreading fegments. Stam. Filaments five, ca- 

 pillary ; anthers united into a cylindrical tube. P'ifl. Ger- 

 men oblong, below the corolla, fuperior with refpect to the 

 calyx ; ftyle thread-ftiaped, longer than the corolla ; ftigma 

 divided, fpreading. Perk, none, except the unchanged 

 pervious calyx. Seed folitary, oblong. Down capillary, 

 woolly at its bafe. Recept. naked. 



Eft'. Ch. Calyx imbricated, fingle-flowered. Corolla 

 tubular, regular. Seed-down capillary, woolly at its 

 bafe. 



I. S. paniculata. Forft. Prodr. n. i. — Native of New 

 Zealand. We have feen no fpecimen of this plant. The 

 younger Linnceus, in his copy of Forfter's book, has made 

 a note of its being referred by Banks and Solander to Soli- 

 dago, under the name of undulata. Perhaps this is the molt 

 natural way of difpofing of it ; though if the calyx never 

 contains but one floret, and is not in any way aggregate, 

 the genus fiiould ftand in Pentandrta Monogynia, along with 

 Ccrymblum, at leaft according to the ftrift law? oi artificial 

 arrangement ; but we ihould hardly, in either cale, recom- 

 mend fuch a meafure. 



SHAWLE, in ylgrlculture, a name applied to a (hovel 

 ufed in winnowing corn, in fome places. 



SHAWMGUNGE, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 

 18 miles W. of RungDOur. N. lat. 25^ 27'. E. long. 

 88° 46'. 



SHAWNAWAZ, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah 

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