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by the Goths. It contains four churches and fix convents, 

 with about 6000 inhabitants. It is an unhealthy place, 

 and water fit for drinking is fcarce ; 28 miles E.S.E. of 

 Urbino. 



SINJIAR. See Sinjar. 



SIN-ING, a town of Corea ; 25 miles E.S.E. of Long- 

 Kouang. 



SI-NING, a town of Corea; 8 miles N.E. of Sing- 

 tcheou. — Alfo, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 

 Chen-fi. N. lat. ^6° 40'. E. long. 101° 24'.— .-Mfo, a 

 town of China, of the third rank, in Pe-tche-li ; 25 miles 

 N.W. of Yu-tcheou. — Alfo, a town of China, of the third 

 rank, in Quang-tong ; 15 miles S.W. of Te-king. 



SINION, a river of China, which runs into the Kialing, 

 15 miles S. of Oei-tcheou. 



SINIS CoLONiA, in jincieni Geographyy a town of Afia, 

 in Lefier Armenia, near the Euphrates, according to Am- 

 mianus Marcellinus. 



SINISCOLA, in Geography, a town of Sardinia, on the 

 eall coait. N. lat. 40° 30'. E. long. 10° i'. 



SINISI, a town of Naples, in Baiilicata ; 1 1 miles S.W. 

 of Turfi. 



SINISTER, fomething on, or towards the left hand. 



Hence fome derive the word finifter, a fmendo, becaufe 

 the gods, by fuch auguries, permit us to proceed in our 

 defigns. 



Sinister is alfo ufed among us for unlucky ; though, in 

 the facred rites of divination, the Romans ufed it in an op- 

 pofite fenfe. Thus, avis ftnijlra, or a bird on the left hand, 

 was efteemed a happy omen ; whence, in the law of the 

 Twelve Tables, Ave finijlra popul't maglfler ejlo. 



Sinister, in Heraldry. The finilter fide of an efcut- 

 cheon is the fide anfwering to the right hand of the perfon 

 who looks at it. 



Sinister Chief and Bafe. See Escutcheon. 



Sinister Bend. See Bend. 



Sinister AfpeS, among AJlrologers, is an appearance of 

 two planets, happening according to the fucceffion of the 

 figns ; as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the fame degree of 

 Gemini. 



SINISTRI, a feft of ancient heretics, thus called, be- 

 caufe they held the left hand in abhorrence, and made it a 

 point of religion not to receive any thing with it. 



What in us is a piece of civility, in them was a fuperlli- 

 tion. Balfamon obferves, that they were likewife called 

 Sabbatians and Novatians. 



SINKBAZAR, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 15 

 miles S.S.W. of Rogonatpour. 



SINKEL, a foa-port town of the ifland of Sumatra, 

 Hear the well coall, on a river which runs into the fea. 

 This town is a good mart for fait, iron, fteel, and feme- 

 times opium. N. lat. 2'' 8'. E. long. 97°. 



SINKING »/ the Earth. See ABSORPTIONS of the 

 Earth. 



Sinking Fund. Sec Fund. 



SINKOO, in the Materia Medica, a name given by 

 fome authors to the lignum aloes, or agallochum, ufed in 

 medicine. 



SINKOUANG, in Geography, a town on the well 

 coall of Sumatra. N. lat. j" 12'. E. long. 98° 13'. 



SIN-LO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pe- 

 tche-li, on the Chao river ; 42 miles S.W. of Paoting. 



SINN, a river of Germany, which runs into the Maine, 

 with the Saal, near Gemunden, in the duchy of Wur/.burg. 

 — Alfo, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province of Diar- 

 bekir ; 40 miles S.E. of Diarbckir. 



SINNEMAHONING Crkek, a river of America, in 



Pennfylvania, which runs into the weft branch of tlie 

 Sufquehanna, N. lat. 41° 17'. W. long. 78°. 



SINNERSHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 

 county of Henneberg ; 8 miles N.W. of Meinungen. 

 SINNET, aboard a Ship. See Sennit. 

 SIN-NGHAN, in Geography, a town of China, of the 

 third rank, in Ho-nan ; 17 miles W. of Ho-nan. 



SIN-NHING, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Hou-qiiang ; 20 miles S.S.W. of Oukang. 



SIN-NING, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Quang-tong; 52 miles S. of Tchao-king. — Alfo, a town 

 of China, of the third rank, in Se-tchuen ; 17 miles E.S.E. 

 of Ta. — Alfo, a city of China, of the fecond. rank, in 

 Quang-fi. N. lat. 22"-" 34'. E. long. 107° 17'. 



SINNO, a river of Naples, which runs into the Adriatic, 

 N. lat. 40". E. long. 16^40'. Near the mouth of the 

 Sinno was Siris, probably the port of Heraclea ; but at 

 prefent there is nothing but an open road, where (hips may 

 lie to take in a cargo of corn, and other commodities, of 

 which one is liquorice, a root that grows wild in great 

 quantities along thefe fwamps, and the fale of which is faid 

 to have produced 700/. a year to the duke of Corigliano. 

 The banks of the Sinno are famous in Roman hiftory 

 for the viftory gained by Pyrrhus over the conful Levinus, 

 in the year of Rome 473. This is faid to have been tfte firfl 

 encounter of the Epirots with the Romans. The honour 

 of the day was purchafed by Pyrrhus at the expence of the 

 flower of his army. 



SINO, a town of Africa, on the Grain Coaft ; 30 mile» 

 S.E. of Sanguin. 



SINOB, or Sinope, a fea-port town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in the fangiacat of Kiutaja, near the coall of the Black 

 fea, on the ilthmus of a peninfula, fix miles in circum- 

 ference, which terminates in a confiderable cape, which has 

 not above twelve feet of water. The antiquity of this town 

 is traced to the time of the Argonauts, or at leaft to the 

 time when the Cimmerians eftablifhed themfclvcs here ; for 

 being driven from their country by the Scythians, they 

 came into Afia, overagainft the mouth of the liter. Its 

 firft commencement, however, was feeble ; but when it re- 

 ceived a colony of Milefians, it rofe to fuch a degree of 

 power, that it founded other colonies on the coalls of the 

 Euxine fea, whilft it poflellcd all the advantages of liberty. 

 It was taken by Pharnaces, father of Mithridates, and 

 made the capital of Pontus ; and it became the birth-place 

 of Mithridates. In the year B.C. 70, it was taken by the 

 Romans under LucuUus, who reftored its liberty. After 

 experiencing a variety of calamities under the tyranny of 

 Pharnaces, Julius Cxlar, having vanquilhed this prince, re- 

 ellabliflied Sinope, and fent hither a Roman colony. It 

 eftablifhed a new era in commemoration of this happy event, 

 and infcribfd on its monuments the title of " Colonia Julia 

 Filix Sinope." This colony was fent to Sinope in the year 

 of Rome 709. The town fnbfifted in a flourilhing ftate 

 under the Roman emperors. Its commerce, which was con- 

 fiderable, and the convenience of its ports, contributed 

 alike to its opulence and its fplendour. Str.ibo fiys that it 

 was one of the moft confiderable towns of Afia. A parti- 

 cular wordiip was paid to Scrapis at Sinope, and it alfo 

 honoured Mercury as the god of commerce. Strabo and 

 Pliny fay, that Sinope, under the Roman emperors, com-, 

 prifed in Paphlagonia, formed a part of the government of 

 Bithynia. Paphlagonia, however, was detached from 

 Bithynia, and formed a particular province, about the rciga 

 of Conftantine ; but the town of Sinope was united with 

 fome other towns of Pontus, to form the province of 

 Hellefpont, in lionour of Helena, the mother of Conftan- 

 G 2 tine. 



