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it was found next morning that the natives had defatted it in 

 the night ; and when M. Lifianfliy went to talce poileflion, 

 he was not a little (liocked " to lind, as in a fecond maffacre 

 of innocents, numbers of young children lying together mur- 

 dered ! left their cries, if they had been carried along with 

 them, might have led to a difcovery of the flight of their 

 cruel parents ; — a number of dogs had been butchered for the 

 fame reafon." They burn their dead, and maffacre their 

 prifoners. They are extremely mufcular and hardy ; and 

 apparently quite infenfible to pain. One lad, who frequently 

 vifited the navigators, and ftole whatever he could lay his 

 hands on, was at laft threatened with the fcourge, but ab- 

 folutely laughed at the menace, — and continued his derifion 

 and gaiety when under the molt, rigorous difcipline that a 

 Ruffian flagellator could apply. They are great beaux 

 withal ; — paint their faces of various colours, and work up 

 their hair with a red pafte, and then powder it in a magnifi- 

 cent manner with the fine white down of the fea-uucks. 

 Their country is obvioufly volcanic. M. Lifianfl'Cy climbed 

 up the higheft mountain on the coaft, which Vancouver dif- 

 tinguifhed by the name of Mount Edgecumbe, and found the 

 fummit formed into a huge crater, nearly two miles in circuit, 

 and about three hundred feet deep. It was partly filled with 

 fnow ; and there is no tradition of the volcano having been 

 feen in a ttate of aftivity. The height he ellimated at no 

 lefs than 8000 feet. 



We (hall here fubjoin, from the work now before us, 

 fome account of the other fettlement called Cadlact. This 

 is a large barren ifland, at theealtern extremity of the Aleu- 

 tian chain ; inhabited by about 4000 of the moft filthy and 

 ftupid favages of which we have any where an account. 

 They are almoft all covered over with itch and ulcers ; arid 

 are extremely indolent and torpid. " Their favourite recrea- 

 tion," fays M. Lifianflcy, " after deeping, is to fit on the 

 roofs of their houfes, or on the beach, for hours together, 

 looking at the fea, andobferving a profound filence, for they 

 never converfe ; and I am perfuaded," adds the worthy 

 Mufcovite, " that the fimplicity of their charafter exceeds that 

 of any other people." Their great paffion is for fnuif and 

 amber ; and their chief occupation catching whales, — on the 

 blubber of which they fatten luxurioufly, in a favourable 

 feafon. They have a ftrange fuperftition, which leads them 

 to believe that the poffeffion of the dead bodies of any old or 

 famous fifhers contributes eflentially to their good luck ; 

 and accordingly Ihew confiderable fagacity in hunting them 

 up in the caverns and other fecret places where they have been 

 flowed by their relations. Some, fays M. Lifianflcy, have 

 aftually accumulated a treafury of not fewer than twenty 

 fuch corpfes. 



M. Lifianfliy obferves, that the volcanic energy feems to be 

 more entire in this than in any other region of the world. In 

 the neighbourhood of Oonalaflika, which is fituated about the 

 centre of the Aleutian chain, a new ifland, nearly twenty 

 miles in circumference, has been formed within thefe twenty 

 years. The following is the account of it, which M. Lifi- 

 anfl<y collefted from cye-witnefles at Cadiack. 



" In the evening of the 26th, while I was alone, writing 

 the memorandums of my journal, a Ruflian introduced him- 

 felf, who had refided on the ifland of Oonalaflika, when a new 

 ifland ftarted up in its vicinity. I liad heard of this pheno- 

 menon, and wa=; therefore defirous to learn what he knew 

 refpeftuiii; it. He faid, that about the middle of April 1797, 

 a fmall ifland was feen where no ifland had been feen before. 

 That the firit intimation of its appearance had been brought 

 by fomo Aleutians to Captain's Harbour, who, returning 

 from filhing, oblcrved a great fmoke ifluing out of the fea ; 

 thiit this was the fraoke of the volcano, which was then gra- 



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dually rifing above the furface of the fea, and which in May, 

 1798, hurft forth with a blaze, that was dillinftly feen from 

 a fctricment called Macoofliino, on the ifland of Oonalaflika, 

 at the diftance of no lefs than forty miles in the north-weft. 

 This new ifland is tolerably high, and about twenty mile; 

 in circumference. It has been remarked, that it has not 1:1- 

 creafed in fize fince the year 1799; and that no alteration 

 has taken place in its appearance, except that fome of the 

 higheft points have been thrown down by violent erup- 

 tions." See Lifianflty's Voyage round the World, in tli 

 Years 1803, 4, 5, and 6, performed by Order of His Im- 

 perial Majefty Alexander I. Emperor of Ruflia, &c. 4to. 

 London, 1 8 14. 



SITCHEVSK, a town of Riiffia, in the government cf 

 Smolenflc ; 96 miles E.N.E. of Smolenflc. N. lat. 55° 34'. 

 E. long. 34° 44'. 



SI-TCHUA, a town of the kingdom of Corea ; 33 miles 

 N. of Han-tcheou. 



SI-TCHUEN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Ho-nan ; 55 miles W. of Nan-yang. 



SI TE fecerit fecunim, in Law, a fpecies of original 

 writ, called peremptory, which diretts the flieriff" to caufe 

 the defendant to appear in court, without any option givea 

 him, provided the plaintitt gives the flieriff fecurity efiec- 

 tBally to profecute his claim. This writ is in ufe, where 

 nothing is fpecifically demanded, but only fatisfattion in ge- 

 neral ; to obtain winch, and minifter complete redrefs, the 

 intervention of fome judicature is neceifary. Such are writs 

 of trefpafs, or on the cafe, in which no debt, or othc-r fpecific 

 thing, is fued for in certain, but only damages to be aiiefied 

 by a jury. See Precipe. 



SITE, or SciTE, Situs, denotes the fituation of a houfe, 

 mefluage, &c. And fometimes the ground-plot, or fpot of 

 earth on which it Hands. 



Sites of Homeftalls, Yards, &c. the fituations proper 

 for them in different cafes. Thefe are very various, accord- 

 ing to the nature and kind of the farms for which they are 

 deiigned, as whether they are thole of the flleep, the grazing, 

 the dairying, the hay and grafs, or thofe of the mixed, arable, 

 and giafs foit. In each kind there is a great number of 

 different iuitable requifites to be provided, which muft, in a 

 great meafure, depend upon the lite itfelf. See Y A.v.iA-Yard, 

 and Y.ARD. 



Site, Situs, m Logic, one of the predicaments, declaring 

 a fubjecf to be fo and fo placed. 



SITENSKOI, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, in the 

 government of Novgorod, near the Ilmen ; 20 miles W.S. W. 

 of Kreftzei. 



SITHA, a town of Kindooftan, in Guzerat ; 75 miles 

 N.N.E. of Junagur. 



SITHCUNDMAN, in our Old Writers, one whofe 

 province it was to lead the men of a town or parifli. Leg. 

 luE. cap. 56. 



Dugdale fays, that in Warwickfliire the hundreds were 

 formerly called fylhefoca, and that fithefocundman, andjith- 

 cundman, was the chiet officer within fuch a divifion, /'. e, 

 the hiijh-conftable of the hundred. 



SITHE. See Scythe. 



SITHESOCA, in our O/d Writers, is uffdto denote the 

 diftrift now called a hundred. The word is Saxon, fignify- 

 ing z. franchife, or liberty. 



SITHON, in AnSient Geography, a mountain of Thrace. 

 — Alfo, Ml iflaiid ui the iEgean fea. 



SITHONIA, a part of Thrace, on the Toronsean gulf, 

 in whicii vc^re the towns of Toroue, Gulepfus, Sarmyles, 

 Mecybtrne, and Olyrtibe. 



SITHONII, 



