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fiderable number of European forts on the coatt, apparently 

 very ufelefs, except for flave-trading purpoles. From 

 Apollonia to Acra, a diilance of only 64 leagues, there are 

 r.o fewer than 27 ; and the expence of the Brilifh forts is 

 about 25,000/. annually. Government, it is faid, iias it in 

 contemplation to difmantle all thofe, except one or two, 

 which will be put in a refpeftable ftate of defence. See 

 Slave-trade. 



Amongit the labourers at Sierra Leona there are above 

 Soo perfons of the tribe of Kroomen ; and they are to be 

 iound at every fattory and town along the coatt, for the 

 fpace of 350 miles. They are employed as faiftors or inter- 

 mediate merchants, boatmen, and iailors ; and wliile the 

 flave-trade was carried on upon this coaft, they had their 

 fliare of its occupation. After the age of 40, they return 

 • iiid fettle at home. Their country, or Kroo country, ex- 

 tends along the Grain Coatt, between Mount and Cape 

 Palmas, from 4° 54' to 5° 7' N. lat. The chief town, 

 Settra Kroo, is ir. W. long. 7° 48'. This diftrift, though 

 fmall, is populous ; and the natives are of a migratory dif- 

 pofition. Their country produces grain, particularly fine 

 rice, pepper, and cattle ; but their ilaple article is their 

 own labour, with which they purchafe goods, and return 

 to their home with the produce. Wars are rare among 

 thefe people, and they never fell one another, nor kill their 

 raptivcs ; nor do they pumfh any offence by flavery, though 

 itchcratt is a capital crime, and the only one that is in- 

 iviably fo among them. While the flave-trade lailed, they 

 iiid to kidnap the " Buflimen," or natives of the interior, 

 .aid fell them. 



Thefe Kroomen are indolent, but when taflc-work is af- 

 ;igned them, they exert themfelves very much ; as the 

 ijward, in this cafe, is proportioned to their labour. In 

 tlieir cxpei<ditiire they are rigid economiils, the only luxury 

 which thoy allow themfelves being tobacco. Their whole 

 fubfittence is only from i^lb. to if lb. of rice, clean and 

 iit fjr ufe, per day ; and of this they will fell one half, when 

 rice is dear. Though they are fond of rum, they never buy 

 it ; and fome of tliem will not drink it, when offered to 

 them. Their clothing does not colt them los. a year. 

 Tiie refidne of iheir grain they lay out in goods ; and in 

 18 months, or two years, tiie Krooman returns home with 

 his wealth. This he dillributes liberally ; and what re- 

 mains he gives to lii.^ father to buy him 3 wife. Having 

 had a wife, after a few months of eafe and indulgence, he 

 lets oft again for Sierra Leona. When his coffers are re- 

 pteniflied, ho returns home, and difpofes of his riches afe 

 before ; referving a part, which he gives to his father to 

 buy him another wife. Thus he proceeds for twelve years 

 or more, increafing the number of his wives, and ellablifhing 

 a great charaftcr among his countrymen. 



Tlie Kroomen are peculiarly dillinguilhed by their ex- 

 treme love of their own country, which they think fuperior 

 to all others. All their exertions are to obtain a fufficicncy, 

 that they may return and live there. They have not the 

 nie of letters, and will not permit their children to learn ; 

 : nd as they live by daily labour, which is paid for itj 

 European goods, tliey have no occafion for manufadhires 

 of their own. They have few opportunities of difplaying 

 peculiar talents ; however, they make their own canoes, fc- 

 veral of their implements of agriculture, and fomc trifling 

 mufical inttruments. 



Sierra Leona, a river of Africa, called alfo " Ritomba," 

 and " Tagrin," about eight miles broad at its mouth, 

 which runs into the Atlantic ocean, N. lat. 8° 20'. W. long. 

 12° 30'. 



Sierra Morena, a mountain, or rather a chain of moun- 

 tains, of Spain, between the provnices of Cordova and Jaen 

 to the fouth, and Ellremadura and La Mancha to the north. 

 A few years ago, this dittrift was the dread of travellers. 

 M. le Maur, a Frenchman, who for a long time has been 

 one of the corps of engineers of Spain, was chofen in the 

 year 1779, by the count de Florida Blanca, to render prac- 

 ticable a road the raott frequented of any in the kingdom ; 

 and he has made it one of the finett in Europe. Several 

 new fettlements have been formed, and new towns founded 

 in this barbarous diftrift. 



Sierra Madre, a lofty chain of mountains of New 

 Mexico, crofling the province of Cinaloa. 



Sierra de Motin, a headland on the coaft of Mexico. 

 N. lat. 19° 50'. W. long. 104=36'. 



Sierra Nevada, mountains of Spain ; 20 miles E. of 

 Grenada. 



Sierra Nevada, or Iztaeclhnatl, a volcanic mountain of 

 Mexico, whofe lummit is always covered with fnow ; 30 

 miles S.E. of Mexico. 



Sierra de Nojlra Senora, a range of mountains in South 

 America, forming the weltern boundary of the province of 

 Tncuman. 



Sierra de St. Mamed, a mountain of Spain, in Ellre- 

 madura ; 25 miles N. of Badajoz. 



SiERR.v de St. Pedro, a mountain of Spain, in Eftre- 

 madura ; 36 miles S.W. of Truxillo. 



Sierra de Torquino, a mountain of the ifland of Cuba ; 

 25 miles S. of Bayamo. 



Sierra Vcrmejo, a range of hills in Spain, which run 

 wetterly towards Malaga, and aftbrd a fingnlar curiofity : 

 for though they run parallel, and fo clofe that their bafes 

 join, yet one is red and the other is white ; fnow will not 

 remain on the higheil, whilft it conftantly covers the other. 

 The white hills produce the cork-tree, and the Encina oak ; 

 the red has no oak, but is covered with firs. The white 

 has iron-ore in little lumps ; the red has feveral ores, but no 

 iron. The waters of the white hills are martial and vitriolic ; 

 thofe of the red fulphurcous, alkaline, and with a ftrong fmell 

 like thofe of Cotterets, in France. 



SIERSBERG,a town of France, in the department of the 

 Mofelle, near the river Nied ; 4 miles N.N.W. of Sar Louis. 



SIERSHAGEN, a town of the duchy of Holllcin ; 

 2 miles N.W. of Neuftadt. 



SIETAMO, a town of Spain, in Aragon ; 5 miles E. 

 of Huefca. 



SIETTREE, a town of Bengal ; 4 miles S. of Burwa. 



SIEVE, a river of Etruria, which runs into the Arno. 



Sieve, or Searce, an inltrument lerving to fcparatc 

 the fine from the coarfe parts of powders, liquors, and the 

 like ; or to cleanfe pulfe from dull, light grains, &c. 



It i", made of a rim of wood, the circle or (pace of which 

 is filled with a plexus of filk, tiffany, hair, linen, wire, or 

 even thin fliccs of wood. 



The fieves which have large holes, are fomctimes alfo 

 called riddles: fuch is the coal or limc-ficvc, the garden- 

 fievc, occ. 



When drugs apt to evaporate are to be paffed through 

 the fieve, it is ufual to have it covered with a lid. 



SIEVERNIYAGOI, or Ruthem Moun/mns, in Geo- 

 graphy, mountains of RulTiai extending between the Baltic 

 and the White lea. 



SIEVERNOIPESOK, a fm.ill fandy' ifland in the 

 Frozen ocean, near the continent of Ruflia. N. lat. 76° 

 54'. E. long. 105" 14'. 



SIEVERO-VOSTOCHNOI, a cape on the north coaft 



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