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two wives of Ganefa or PoUear, the god ot prudence and 

 policy. (See Pollear.) The name of the other was 

 Budhi, and both were daughters of Fi/hiuarupa; v/hich 

 fee. Their names occur but feldom in Hindoo writings. 



SiDl Bin Tu/u, in Geography, a town of Algiers ; 30 

 miles E.S.E. of Meliana. _ 



SiDi Efa, a town of Algiers ; 30 miles S. of Boujeiah. 



SiDi GaaU a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 4 

 miles N.E. of Kiutaja. 



SiDi Ibrahim, a town of Algiers; 30 miles W. ot 



Tubnah. . ^ . mm 



SiDl Mcdhab, a town of Africa, in Tunis; 20 mUes N. 



of Gabs. 



SiDi Shehri, a town of Afiatic Turkey, m Caramama, on 

 a lake ; 6 miles E. of Beifhehri. 



SIDIALIEL, a town of Nubia; 55 miles N. of 

 Sennaar. 



SIDIBISCHIR, a town of Africa, in the country of 

 Fczzan ; i6miles E. of Mourzouk. 



SIDIN, or V.\Tis.\, a river of Afiatic Turkey, which 

 runs into the Black fea, at Vatifa. 



SIDLA, S1DL.A.W, or Sudlaiu Hills, a range of moun- 

 tains in the counties of Perth and Angus, Scotland, which 

 form the fouthern boundary of the great valley of Strath- 

 more, whence they derive their name ; Sudlaws fignifying, 

 in Erff, the fouth hills. This ridge commences on the weft, 

 in the vicinity of the town of Perth, and extends in a north- 

 eallern direftion to Redhead, a promontory on the coaft of 

 the German ocean, between Aberbrothwick and Montrofe. 

 The mountains which compofe it vary confiderably in eleva- 

 tion ; fome of them not exceeding 800 feet in height above 

 the level of the fea, while others are upwards of 1400 feet 

 high. Tlie following are the heights of fcveral of the prin- 

 cipal of them, as afcertained by barometrical meafurement : 

 Sidlaw hill, 1406 feet; Kingfeat, 1238; Kinpurnie hill, 

 noted for an ancient tower on its fummit, 1151 ; and Dun- 

 finnan hill, 1024^. The lall mentioned hill is remarkable 

 for being that on which the ufurper and tyrant, Macbeth, 

 built a callle, with a view to fecure his life againft any at- 

 tempt which might be made to murder him. Sinclair's 

 Statiftical Account of Scotland, vol. i. 1791. 



SIDMOUTH, a market-town in the hundred of Eall 

 Budleigh, and county of Devon, England, is feated in a 

 valley on the banks of the river Sid, between high hills, at 

 the dillance of 14^ miles S.E. of Exeter, and 158 miles 

 S.W. of London. Sidmouth was formerly a fea-port of 

 fome confequence ; but the harbour has been fo clogged 

 with fand and pebbles, that pleafure-boats and fiftiing 

 fmacks are the only veffels which can now approach the 

 fhore. Of late years the buildings and population have in- 

 creafed, in confequence of the number of perfons who fre- 

 quent the place in the fummer, for the purpofes of bathing 

 and recreation. Good accommodations have confequently 

 been provided, and a ball-room, biUiard-room, and tea- 

 room, ertfted for the convenience of the vifitors. Ac- 

 cording to the population report in the year iSii, the 

 number of houfes in the parifli was 349, inhabited by 1688 

 perfons. A weekly market is held on Saturdays, and two 

 fairs annually. Near the beach is an ancient ftone buildmg, 

 with very thick walls firmly cemented, traditionally faid to 

 have been a chapel of eafe, when Otterton was the mother- 

 church ; and in a path leading from Sidmouth to Otterton, 

 called Go-Church, is an ancient '.lone crofs. At Sidmouth 

 was formerly an alien prior)', a cell to Mountborrow in 

 Normandy, or rather to St. Michael in Per culo Maris ; for 

 to this lait mentioned monaftery the manor was given by 

 king William the Conqueror. It was fometimes reckoned 



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as a part of Otterton priory, and, with that, after the dif- 

 folulion of the foreign houfes, was given to Sion abbey ; 

 and at the time of the furrender, devolved to the crown. The 

 fcenery on this coail, between Sidmouth and Seaton, is 

 grand and romantic ; prefenting a fuccefGon of lofty cliffs, 

 llooing ridges, and narrow vallies. In fome places the 

 cliffs are compofed of fand, tinged by a red oxyd of iron, 

 and is partly calcareous. On the edge of a hill, north-weft 

 of Sidmouth, is an ancient encampment, called Woodbury 

 caftle, which is of an irregular form, with deep ditches : 

 at fome places the fofs is double. Obfervatioiis on the 

 Weftern Counties, by George Maton, M.D. z vols. 8vo. 

 The Hiftory of Devonfhire, by the Rev. Richard Pol- 

 whele, 3 vols. fol. 1797. The Ciiorographical Defcription, 

 or Survey of the County of Devon, by Triftram Rifdon, 

 8vo. 1714, zdedit. 1811. Beauties of England and Wales, 

 vol. iv. 1803, by J. Britton and E. W. Brayley. 



SIDNA-BINES, a town of Fez, near the fea-coaft. 

 SIDNEY, Philip, in Biography. See Sydney- 

 Sidney, Algernon. See Sydntty. 

 Sidney, in Geography, a town of the ifiand of Cape 

 Breton ; 20 miles N. of Louifburg. — Alfo, a town of New 

 York, on the Sufquehanna ; 50 miles W. of Hudfon. — 

 Alfo, a pofl-town of the province of Maine, on the Kenne- 

 beck ; 30 miles N.E. of Portland, fituated in the county 

 of Kennebeck, and containing 1558 inhabitants. 

 Sidney Cove. See Sydney' Cove. 



SIDODONA, in indent Geography, a barren place on 

 the coaft: of Carmania, in the Perlian gulf, where Near- 

 chus is faid to have refrefhed himfelf, in his voyage from the 

 ifle of Oarafta to that of Cara, according to his journal of 

 the navigation. 



SIDOLOUCUM, or Sidoleucum, a town of Gallia 

 Lyonnenfis, on the route from Lugdunum to GefToriacum, 

 between Auguftodunum and Abellone, according to the 

 Itinerary of Antonine. 



SIDON, a town of Phoenicia, 30 miles from Berytus, 

 according to the Itinerary of Antonine. This town was 

 for a long time the metropolis of Phoenicia, till Tyre became 

 more powerful, and contefted with it this dignity. Jullia 

 fays, that the Phoenicians, being obliged to abandon their 

 country on account of an earthquake, eftablifhed themfelves 

 in the vicinity of the lake of Affyria, which they after- 

 wards deferted, and eltablifhed themfelves on the neigh- 

 bouring coaft of the fea, where they built the town, which 

 they called Sidon. Mofes informs us that this town had 

 been built by Sidon, the eideft fon of Canaan, the father 

 and founder of the Phoenicians. Joftiua (ch. ii. v. 8 ) fays, 

 that the town of Sidon was rich and powerful when the 

 Ifraelites took pofleflion of the land of Canaan. St. Jerora 

 fays, that it fell to the lot of the tnbe of Afher. In the 

 year 1015, Sidon was dependent on Tyre, for Solomon in- 

 duced Hiram, king of Tyre, to give orders to the Sidonians 

 to procure from Libanus the wood which he wanted for the 

 temple at Jerufalem, which he propofed to build. The Sido- 

 nians (hoek off the yoke of the Tyrians 720 years B.C. and 

 furrendcrcd themlelves to Salmanazar, when this prince en- 

 tered into Phoenicia. Jofephus (Antiq.) relates, that about 

 150 years afterwards, Apries, king of Egypt, invaded 

 Phoenicia with powerful armies, took Sidon by force, which 

 event was followed by the fubmiflion of all the other towns 

 of Phoenicia to the conqueror. Cyrus conquered this city, 

 but the Sidonians obtained permiffion of the Perfians to 

 have their own kings ; and they cook part in all the ex- 

 peditions of their new mafters, according to Herodotus 

 (1. iii. ) ; and in the war of Xerxes againft the Greeks, the 

 king of Sidon, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. xiv.) 



commanded 



