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duced to exlrad as an inftance of the playful gaiety of 

 Hindoo poetics, and the prevalence of mythological allu- 

 fions in all their writings. Heri and Narayana, we may 

 premife, are names of Viflinu ; and Padraa, or the Lotos, of 

 Lakfhmi. 



" Whatever is delightful in the modes of mufiG ; whatever 

 is divine in meditations on Vifhnu ; whatever is exquifite in 

 the fweet art of love ; whatever is graceful in the fine itrains 

 of poetry ; — all that let the happy and wife learn from the 

 fono-3 of Jayadeva, whofe foul is united to the foot of Na- 

 rayana. May that Heri be your fupport, who expanded 

 himfelf into an infinity of bright forms, when, eager to gaze 

 with myriads of eyes on the daughter of the ocean, he dif- 

 played his great character of the all-pervading deity, by the 

 multiplied refleftions of his divine perfon in the numberlefs 

 gems on the many heads of the king of ferpents, whom he 

 chofe for his conch : that Heri, who, removing the lucid 

 veil from the bofom of Padma, and fixing his eyes on the 

 delicious buds that grew on it, diverted her attention by 

 declarintf, tliat when (he had chofen him as her bridegroom, 

 near the" fea of milk, the difappointed hufband of Parvati 

 drank in defpair the venom which dyed his neck azure." 

 Jones's Works, vol. x. Af. Ref. vol. iii. 



The many-headed king of ferpents is named Sefha, a fre- 

 quent fubjeft of poetical exuberance. See Sesha. 



Of the blue-necked Siva, Nilakantha is another name, 

 of fimilar meaning as that at the head of this article ; and 

 which indeed occurs oftener than Shitakantha, or Shita- 

 koontha. 



SHITTAT, in Geography, a town of Arabii Deferta ; 

 50 miles W.N.W. of Melched Ali. 



SHITTEN Bay, a bay on the W. coalt of the illand 

 of St. Chriftopher. 



SHI VAL, a town of Hindooftan, in Vifiapour ; 25 miles 

 E. of Baddammv. 



SHIVERAP'lLLY, a town of Hindosftan, in the cir- 

 car of Cicacole ; 20 miles W. of Cicacole. 



SHIVERS, in a Ship, the feamen's term for tiiofe little 

 round wheels in which the rope of a pulley or block runs. 

 They turn with the rope, and have pieces of brafs in 

 their centres, which they call the coak, with holes in them, 

 into which the pin of the block goes, and on which they 

 turn. 



Thefe ihivers arc ufually of wood, but fome are of brafs, 

 as thofe in the heels of the top-mads. See Sheave. 



Shivers, in Rope-making, the foul particles taken from 

 the hemp, when hatchcUing. 



SHIVERING, the Itate of a fail when the wind is too 

 oljjjjjue to fill it, fs that it flutters about. Tiiis muft be 

 the cafe when a vefiel is put about, till the fails are filled 

 again with the wind. 



SHIVERY Salt, a name given by the falt-workers to a 

 fort of fait, very little different from the common brine-falt. 

 See Salt. 



SHIUMLA, in Geography, a town of Bulgaria, in the 

 fangiacat of Driilra. In this place, thought by the Turks 

 to be impregnable, they were defeated by the Ruffians with 

 terrible flaughter ; 62 miles E. of Varna. N. lat. 43° 10'. 

 E. long. 26° 27'. 



SHIZAR, a town of Syria, in the pachalic of Aleppo ; 

 15 miles S.E. of Famich. 



SHOAD, in Mining, a term for a train of metaUine 

 Hones mixed with earth, fometimes lying near the furface, 

 fometimes at confidernblc depths, but always ferving to the 

 miners as a proof that the load or vein of the metal is 

 thereabout.. The deeper the Ihoad lies, the nearer is the 

 vein. 



•SHOAD-5/on«, a term uled by the miners of Cornwall, 



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and other parts of this kingdom, to ezprefs kuch loole 

 maffes of itooe, as are ufually found about tJie entrances into 

 mines, fometimes running in a ftraight courfe, from the load 

 or vein of ore to the furface of the earth. 



Thefe are ftones of the common kinds, appearing to have 

 been pieces broken from the Itrata, or larger mafles, but 

 they ufually contain mundic or marcafitic matter, and more 

 or lefs of the ore to be found in the mine. They appear 

 to have been at fome time rolled about in water, their 

 corners being broken off, and their furface fmootfaed and 

 rounded. 



The antimony mines in Cornwall are always eafily difco- 

 vered by the (hoad-ltones, thefe ufually lying up to the fur- 

 face, or very nearly fo ; and the matter of the ftone being 

 a white fpar, or debafed cryllal, in which the rati*e colour 

 of the ore, which is a fhining blueifh-black, eafily difcovers 

 itfelf in itreaks and threads. 



Shoad-llones are of fo many kinds, and of fuch various 

 appearances, that it 13 not eafy to defcribe or know them : 

 but the miners, to whopi they are of greateft ufe in the 

 tracing, or fearching after new mines, dittinguifh them from 

 other llones by their weight ; for if very ponderous, though 

 they look ever fo much like common ftones, there is great 

 reafon to fufpeft that they contain fome metal. Another 

 mark of them is their being fpungy and porous ; this is a 

 fign of efpecial ufe in the tin countries, for the tin (hoad- 

 ilones are often fo porous and fpungy, that they refemblc 

 large bodies thoroughly calcined. There are many other 

 appearances of tin (hoads, the very hardeft and firraeft ftones 

 often containing this metal. 



When the miners, in tracing a fhoad up hill, meet with 

 fuch odd ftones and earths, that they know not well what i, 

 to make of them, they have recourfe to vanning, that is, 

 they calcine and powder the ilonc, clay, or whatever elfe is 

 fuppofed to contain the metal ; and then wafhing it in an in- 

 ftrument, prepared for that purpofe, and called a -vanning 

 Jhovel, they find the earthy matter wafhed away, and of the 

 remainder, the ftony, or gravelly matter lies behind, and the 

 metalline matter at the point of the Ihovel. If the perfon 

 who performs this operation has any judgment, he eafily 

 difcovers not only what the metal is that is contained in the 

 (lioad, but alfo will make a very probable guefs at what 

 quantity the mine is likely to yield of it in proportion to 

 the ore. Phil. Tranf. N^ 69. Price's Mineralogia, 

 p. 124, &c. 



SHOAL, in Sea-Language, is the fame as /hallow, and 

 is applied to flats in the water. 



They fay it i« goodjhoaling, when a fhip failing toward? 

 fliore, they find by her founding it grows (hallower and 

 (hallower by degrees, and not too fuddenly ; for then the (hip 

 goes in fafety. 



Shoal Inlet, in Geography, a channel between two fmall 

 iflands on the coalt of North Carolina. N. lat. 34° 5'. W. 

 long. 77° 58'- 



SHOALNESS, a low cape on the weft coaft of North 

 America. Captain Cook met with fome Indians on the cojit, 

 near this cape, who came off to the (hips in canoes, expreil- 

 ing, as he conceived, their pacific intentions by hallooing and 

 opening their arms, as they cautioufly advanced. At length 

 fome of them approached near enough to receive fome trifle* 

 that were thrown to them. This brought on, fays captain 

 Cook, " a traffic between them and our people, who got 

 dreffes of flcins, bows, arrows, darts, wooden veffels, &;c. ; 

 our vifitors taking in exchange whatever was offered them. 

 They feemed to be the fame kind of people that we had lately 

 met with along this coaft ; wore the fame ornaments in their 

 hpsandnofes, but were far more dirty,and not fowell clothed. 

 They appeared to be wholly unacquainted with people likt- 



