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queen of Scots, down to the prefent time. Here are like- 

 ■wiTe Icveral portraits of the Caw family, and olhrri- ; among 

 which are fir Randolph Crew, lord chief jiifticc of the court 

 of king's bench ; a fine piAure of Thomas lord Crei<', by 

 fir Peter Lely ; Nathaniel lord Crew, biihop of Durham ; 

 and the late lord chancellor Hardwicke. 



The ffarden attacht-d to this manfion exhibits a fpecimen 

 of the old (lyle of arrangement and ornament, modified and 

 improved by the celebrated Brown, who formed the ferpen- 

 tine canal, which nearly furrounds the garden, and is fup- 

 plied by a ipring rifing near the houfe. At the fpring- 

 kad is a cold bath, over which is a building, defigned by fir 

 William Cliambers, in imitation of a Roman temple. The 

 late duke of Kent, who was very partial to this refidcnce, 

 adorned the gardens with obelifks, and other building^:, 

 particularly a magnificent banquetting houfe, which termi- 

 nates a fpacious avenue in front of the houfe. Lylons's 

 Magna Britannia, Bedfordlhire, 410. 1806. Beauties of 

 England and Wales, vol. i. by John Britton and E. W. 

 Bravlev, 8vo. 1803. 



SHE FN A L. See Shifpnal. 



SHEHERON, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Irak; 15 miles E. of Kermanfliaw. 



SHEHERVERD, a town of Perfia, in the province 

 of Irak ; 30 miles S.W. of Sultania. 



SHEHOUN, a town of Syria, under the jurifdiAion 

 of an independent aga, anciently called " Cappareas ;" 18 

 mile? N. of Hamah. 



SHEHRBAN, or Shereban, a town of the Arabian 

 Irak, on the Diala ; 50 miles N. of Bagdad. N. lat. 34° 

 8'. E. long. 44° 5'. 



SHEHRIGHERD, a town of Perfia, in the province 

 of Irak ; 33 miles W.S.W. of Kom. 



SfiEHRISTAN, a town of Perfia, in KhoralTan ; 210 

 miles W. of Herat. N. lat. 3 j° 10'. E. long. 56° 20'. — 

 Alfo, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chufiitan, or 

 Kuziftan ; 50 miles N.W. of Schiras. 



SHEIB, a lake of Egypt ; 48 miles E.N.E. of Cairo. 



SHEIDEK, a mountain of Switzerland, in the S.E. 

 part of the canton of Berne; 10 miles S.E. of Inter- 

 lacken. 



SHEIK, or ScHEiK, in the Oriental Cujloms, the perfon 

 who has the care of the mofques in Egypt : his duty is the 

 fame as that of the imams at Conftaiitinople. There are 

 more or fewer of thefe to every mofque, according to its 

 fize or revenues. One of thele is head over the reft, and 

 anfwers to a parifli-priell with us, and has under him, in 

 large mofques, the readers and people who cry out to go to 

 prayers ; but in fmall mofques the llicik is obliged to do all 

 this himfelf. In fuch it is their bufinefs to open the mofque, 

 to cry to prayers, and to begin their {hort devotions at the 

 head of the congregation, who ftand rank and file in great 

 order, and make all their motions together. Every Friday 

 the rtieik makes an harangue to his congregation. Pococke's 

 Egypt, p. 171. 



SnElK-Bellel, the name of an ofBcer in the Oriental 

 nations. 



In Egypt the (heik bellet is the head of a city, and is 

 appointed by the pacha. The bufinefs of this officer is to 

 take care that no innovation be made, which may be pre- 

 judicial to the Porte, and that they fend no orders which 

 may hurt the liberties of the people. But all his authority 

 depends on his credit and intereft, not his office : for the 

 government of Egypt is of Inch a kind, that often the 

 people of the leaft power by their polls have the greateft 

 influence ; and a caia of the janizaries, or Arabs, and fome- 

 times one of their meaneft officers, an oda-bafha, finds means, 



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by his parts and abilities, to govern all thing?. Pococke's 

 Egvpt, p. 161. 



SHEIKH AUT, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 8 

 mile'' N. of Klaiv.abad. 



SHEIKH-ULJEBAL, Dominions of, or lord of the 

 mountains (cominoiily called the old man of the m.ountain) 

 compriffd the whole of that elevated trail in the province 

 of Azerbijan in the Perfian empire, which runs parallel 

 with the courle of the Kizilozein and the greater part of 

 Ghilaii. When dellroyed by Holaku, the Houlieines, or 

 Affaifins, pofieffed upwards of loO Itrong holds ; but the 

 refider.ce of the prince was generally confined to the callles 

 Roiidbar and Allah Ahmaut, both of which are fituatcd in 

 the Kohr Caucaufan, near Kazween. 



SHEIKPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 28 

 miles E. of Bahar. N. lat. 2f 9'. E. long. 86° 3'. 



SHEIMERS, a town of New Jerfey ; 34 miles N.W. 

 of Mornllown. 



SHEK Abade', a town of Egypt, anciently called y/n- 

 tinoe ; 8 miles N. of Abu Girge. 



Shek Ahdalla, a village of Syria, in the pachalic of 

 Aleppo, where are fome Ipriiigs of water; 20 miles S.E. 

 of Aleppo. 



Shek Abu Ennur, a town of Eg)'pt ; 7 miles S. of 

 Benifuef. 



Shek /Immer, a town of Egypt, fituated on the Nile ; 

 17 miles N. of Svene. 



Shek Embade, a town of Egypt, on the right bank of ■ 

 the Nile ; 16 miles S.S.E. of Girge. iT 



Shek Eredi, or Haradi, a town of Egypt, on the E. 

 fide of the Nile. Here is the tomb of a Turkifii laint, 

 who after his death is (aid to have been metamorphofed into 

 a ferpent, which never dies, and is confulted as a phyfician ; 

 8 miles N.N.E. of Achmim. 



Shfk ;'/ Etman, a town of Egypt, on the Nile ; 7 miles 

 S.S.W. of Cairo. 



Shek Fadle, a town of Egypt, on the right bank of the 

 Nile ; 10 miles S. of Abu Girge. 



Shek Z,einedd'm., a town of Egypt, on the left bank of 

 the Nile ; 3 miles N. of Tahta. 



SHEKEL, Shekle, ShecUe, Sidus, an ancient Hebrew 

 filvcr coin, which was originally a didrachm, but, after the 

 Maccabees, about the value of the Greek tetradrachm, or 

 four Attic drachmas, or four Roman denarii, allowing the 

 drachma and denarius to be of the fame value ; and, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Raper's valuation of the drachma at 9''. 2 86, 

 equal to 37"*. 144. See Denarius and Drach.m. 



In the Bible, the (hekel is fomctimes alfo rendered fo/idui, 

 and fometimes_^<7/^r. 



The Jewilh doctors are in great doubt about the weight 

 of the (hekcl ; and it is only by conjefture, and by the 

 weight of the modern (hekel, that the ancient one is judged 

 equal to four Attic drachmas. 



Father Souciet has defcnbed feveral of thefe (hekels in 

 his Ditlertation on the Hebrew Medals. By the way he 

 obferves, that the third and fourth parts of a (ht-kel, de- 

 fcribed by Waferus, de Aut. Numb. Heb. are counterfeits 

 of that author. 



The Hebrew (hekel, according to F. Merfenne, weighs 

 268 grains, and is compofed of 20 oboli, each obolus 

 weighing 16 grains of wheat. This, he fays, is the jull 

 weight, as he found by weighing one in the French king's 

 cabinet. He adds, that fuch as come (hort of this weight 

 have been filed or clipped. Bi(hop Cumberland tells us, 

 he has weighed feveral, and always found them near the 

 weight of a Roman femuncia, or half ounce. Mr. Raper 

 infers from various confidcrations (fee Drach.m), that the 



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