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'vho inhabited the ifle of Lemnos, according to Homer. 

 This name, however, probably belongs to the inhabitants 

 uf the town of Sindus, or Sinthus, near the Thermaic 

 gulf. 



SINTIQUIPAQUE, in Gfograpky, a town of Mexico, 

 in the province ef Guadalajara, on the Barania ; IIO miles 

 N.W. of Guadalajara. 



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

 ivian^-G, on the river Kan ; 13 miles S. of Lin-kiang. — 

 Vlfo, a town of China, of the third rank, in Se-tchuen ; 

 ,1 miles S. of Han. 



SINTRA. SeeCiNTRA. 



SIN-TSAI, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho- 

 nan, on the river Yu ; 32 miles E.S.E. of Yun-hing. 



SINTZHEIM, a town of the duchy of Baden ; 13 miles 

 S.S.E. of Heidelberg. 



SINU. See ZiNu. 



SINUATUM Folium, in Botany, a Siiuiated Leaf, fo 

 called from finus, a bay or creek, in allufion to its winding 

 outline, or the broad, deep, rounded incifions of its margin. 

 See Leaf. 



SINUESSA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, on 

 the frontiers of Latium and Campania, near the marfli of 

 Miiturnes. It derived its name, according to Strabo, from 

 the finuolity of the coaft, which at this place formed a 

 fmall gulf. Some remains of it, as well as of its baths, the 

 water of which wa^ reputed to be excellent againft fterility, 

 ftill fubfill. Sinueffa was a Roman colony, according to 

 Livy. 



SINUNIA, a town of Afia, in Parthia, according to 

 Ptolemy. 



SINUOSITY, a feries of bends and turns in arches, or 

 other irregular figures ; fometimes jetting out, and fome- 

 times falling in : fuch as defcribed by the motion of a fer- 

 pent, &c. 



It is the fmuofity of the fea-coalts that forms bays, ports, 

 capes, &c. Du Loir obferves, that the courfe of the river 

 Meander, creeping- in a thoufand agreeable finuofities, ferved 

 Doedalus as a model by which to form his labyrinth. 



SINUOUS Ulcers. See Ulcer. 



SINUS, in Anatomy, a term applied to various cavities 

 of the body. In the head we have the iinufes of the frontal, 

 fphenoid, ethmoid, and maxillary Ixmes ; which are cavities 

 of thefe bones commuiiicatinn; with the nofe. (See Cra- 

 nium and Nose. ) The finufes of the dura mater are the 

 large veins of the brain. (See Brain, Nervous .9v/?fn;, 

 and Vein.) The finufes of the veiiie and cava: and pul- 

 monary veins are the principal parts of the two auricle."!. 

 (See Heart.) The finus of the vena portarum is its 

 trunk, jult before it divides into the right and left branches. 

 See Vein. 



SiNU.s, in Surgery, a fmall orifice leading down to an 

 abfcefs. 



Sinus Hipponenfis, in Ancient Geography, the gulf of 

 Bizerta, a gulf of Africa, formed by the promontory 

 " Candidum" to the north-weft, and the promontory 

 " Apolhnis" to the eaft. 



Sinus Numidiais, the gulf of Stora, a gulf of Africa, 

 formed to the welt by the promontory " Tritum," and to 

 the eaft by the promontory " Tapfus." 



SIN-YAN, in Geography, a river of China, which runs 

 into the Eaftern fea, 17 miles E.N.E.of Yen-te-hing. 



SIN-YANG, a town of Corca ; 45 miles S. of Koang- 

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

 nan. N. lat. 32° 12'. E. long. 113° 38'. 



SIN-YE, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho- 

 nan ; 27 miles S.S.W. of Nan-yang. 



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

 Kiang-fi ; 25 miles W.S.W. of Lin-kiang. 

 SINZIG. See Zinzig. 



SINZITA, in Ancient Geography, a town of LefTer 

 Armenia, in the prefecture of Muriana. Ptolemy. 



SIO, in Geography, a river of Hungary, which runs 



into the Sarand, near Simontornya Alfo, a river of 



Spain, which runs ir.to the Segra, a little above Balaguer. 



Alfo, a decayed town of Africa, on the coaft of Zanguebar ; 

 10 miles N.W. of Ampa9a. 



SIOCON, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland of 

 Mindanao. N. lat. 7° 25'. E. long. 122' 12'. 



SIOCOTTICLAY, a town of the ifland of Ceyloi ; 

 25 miles N.N.W. of Trincomaly. 



SIODA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Albania, being 

 one of thofe which Ptolemy places between the Cyrrhus and 

 Albanus. 



SIOE, in Geography, a fmall ifland of Denmark, near 

 the W. coaft of Langeland. N. lat. 54° 58'. E. long, 

 10^42'. 



SION, or ZiON, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of 

 Paleftine, or of the land of Canaan, for an account of which, 

 fee Jerusalem. 



Sign was alfo one of the names of mount Hermon, or 

 rather of a chain of mountiiiis, called mountains of Hermon, 

 from mount Hermon, the principal of them. Of this 

 mountain the Pfalmift probably fpeaks in Pf. cxxviii. 3. — 

 Alfo, a town of Paleftine, in the tribe of Ifl'achar, accord- 

 ing to the book of Joftiua. 



SiON, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Lower Loire ; 9 miles W. of Chateaubriant, 



Siox, or Sitten, a town of Switzerland, and capital of 

 the Vallais, fituated on a river of the fame name, which foon 

 after runs into the Rhone. This is the fee of a bifliop, the 

 moll ancient in Switzerland, and faid to have been originally 

 founded at Martinach. The bifliop, who ftyles himfelf 

 count and vogt-governor of the Vallais, is elected by the 

 chapter of the cathedral and the rcprefentatives of the tyth- 

 ings, and is a fuffragan of the archbifliop of Mouftiers, in 

 Savoy. It contains fix churches, with fome convents, a 

 college, and three palaces of the bilhop, ftanding one above 

 another ; 48 miles E. of Geneva. Sion is fituated at the 

 foot of three infulated rocks, that rife immediately from the 

 plain. The highcft, called T(3urbillon, iupports the ruins 

 of the old epifcopal palace, containing two or three unte- 

 nanted apartments, in one of which are the portraits of the 

 ieveral bifliops. On the fecond rock, denominated Valeria, 

 are obferved the remains of the old cathedral, and a few 

 houfes belonging to the canons. On Mayoria, the third 

 rock, ftands the epifcopal palace, an ancient edifice of 

 ftone, built in 1547. Two apartments in this palace deferve 

 attention. The firft is that in which the diet aflembles ; and 

 the other is the hall, in which the bifliop holds his court, 

 like the feudal lords of ancient times ; at the further ex- 

 tremity is a raifed feat, called a throne, furrounded by a 

 wooden baluftrade, and as an incitement to wildom and im- 

 partiality, the figures of Jufticc and Solomon's judgment are 

 coarfely painted upon tile w-ills. Sion is an ancient town, and 

 was formerly the capital of the Seduni, who inhabited this part 

 of the country in the time of Julius Ca;far. Among fevcral 

 obliterated infcriplions, one is legible, in honour of the em- 

 peror Augultus, during his eleventh confulfliip. In this in- 

 fcription the town is called " Civita:) Sedunorum," N. lat. 

 46° 11'. E. long. 7'-' 9'. Sec Vallais. 

 Sign College. See College. 



SIONDELAR, in Geography, ^ town of Hindooftan, in 

 the Caniatic ; 25 miles N.W. of Ongole. 



SIONDY, 



