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nulated ; the fecond an impalpable powder ; and the third 

 the bran, or coarfe part remaining after fifting the lecond 

 fort. 



The many mifchiefs attending the unnatural praftice of 

 taking this powder of tobacco at the nollrils, have been 

 defcribed by the writers in general on thefe fubjefts, fince 

 this pernicious cuitom has reigned in the world ; but one of 

 the moft remarkable accidents, occafioned by it, is related 

 in the Afta Eruditorum, which was the forming of a poly- 

 pus in the celophagus, that killed the patient, by Itarving 

 him, from an inabihty of fwallowing. Aft. Erudit. an. 

 1715, p. 475. See PrCA Nafi. 



Snuff, or Snuffer, in the Manege. See SsoRT. 



SNUG Bay, in Geography, a bay in the Straits of Ma- 

 gellan, N.N.W. of Cape Froward. 



Snug Bay Point, a cape in the Straits of Magellan ; 8 

 miles N.N.W. of Cape Froward. 



Snug Corner Cove, a bay of the North Pacific ocean, on 

 the E. fide of Prince William's found, on the W. coaft of 

 North America. N. lat. 60° 50'. W. long. 146° 30'. 



SNYING, in Ship-Building, a term applied to thofe 

 planks, whofe edges curve or round upwards. The great 

 fny occafioned in full bows or buttocks is only to be pre- 

 vented by introducing fteelers. See Steelers. 



SNYTE, in Geography, a river of England, which runs 

 into the Dean, in Nottinghamihire. 



SOA, a town of the iiland of Cuba ; 60 miles N. of 

 St. Yago. 



SoA, a fmall ifland of the Hebrides, or Weftern iflands 

 of Scotland, fituated near the celebrated ifle of St. Kilda. 

 It is about a mile in circumference. 



SOACA, in Jlncient Geography, a town fituated in the 

 interior of Arabia Felix, according to Ptolemy. 



SOAGGIO, in Ichthyology, the name of a fifli common 

 in the markets of Rome and of Venice, and of the turbot 

 kind. See L.VG-a-lea/. 



SOAID, in Geography. See Saidou. 



SOAK, or Sowiak, a town of Arabia, in the province 

 of Mafcat, on the E. coaft ; J miles N.W. of Burka. 



SOAKAGE, in Agriculture, a term applied to the water 

 that drains through the banks or other parts, in fen and 

 other moift diftrifts. It is very coiifiderable and trouble- 

 fome in tome inftances, fo as to caufe much expence. See 

 Embankment. 



SOAL, or Sole, in Ichthyology, the Enghfli name of the 

 fifh, called by the generality of authors the buglojfus, by 

 {ort\e folea, and the Pleuronectes So/ea of Linnxus, which 

 fee. Some authors call it the Unguacula. 



The foal is found on all our coafts, but thofe on the weftern 

 (hores are much larger than thofe of the north. They are 

 ufually taken in a trawl-net ; they keep much at the bot- 

 tom, and feed on fmall ftiell-fi(h. The fmall foals are much 

 fuperior in goodnefs to the large ones. 



Soals may be taken at any time of the year, but they 

 muft not be under feven inches from the eye to the end of 

 the tail, i & 2 Geo. I. cap. 18. 



SoAL, Smooth, from its tranfparcncy called the lantirn- 

 fijh. See Pleuronectes y^rnoj/o^w. 



SOALTERPOUR, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 

 20 miles E. of Rangamatty. 



SOAMUS, [TJJjamou), in Ancient Geography, a river of 

 India, on this fide of the Ganges. Its fource was in mount 

 Emidus, S. of the Hydafpes, into which it difcharged it- 

 felf N.E. of Bucephala. 



SOANA, a river of Afiatic Sarmatia, the mouth of 

 which is placed by Ptolemy on the weftern coalt of the 

 Cafpiau fea, above the town of Telcha. — Alfo, a river of 



SOA 



the ifland of Taprobana, fo called by Ptolemy, who 

 places its mouth on the weftern coaft, between the pro- 

 montory of Andrafimundum and the town Sindocand?. 

 — Alfo, a town of Italy, in Etruria, N.W. of the 

 Volfinii. 



SoANA, in Geography, a town of Etruria, the fee of a 

 biftiop, fuffragan of Sic-nna ; 24 miles N.E. of Orbitello. 



SoANA, a mountain of France ; 10 miles S. of Aofta. 



SOANDA, or SoANDKS, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Cappadocia, between Therma and Sacaena, according 

 to the Itinerary of Antonine. 



SOANE, in Geography, a river of Hindooftan, which 

 rifes in the country of Allahabad, about 30 miles S.E. 

 from Sohagepour, and runs into the Ganges, near Patna. 



SOANEN, John, in Biography, a French prelate, was 

 born at Rioms in 1647. His father was an attorney in the 

 prefidial court of that city ; his mother was niece of the 

 learned Jefuit Sirmond. In 1661 he entered the congre- 

 gation of the Oratory at Paris, where he took for his con- 

 feflbr the celebrated father Quefnel. After teaching the 

 languages and rhetoric in feveral of the feminaries of the 

 fociety, he devoted himfelf to pulpit fervices, and with fo 

 much fuccefs, that he became one of the four dillinguilhed 

 preachers of the congregation, who were popularly deno- 

 minated the four evangehfts. Fenelon joined him with 

 Mafiillon as models of pulpit eloquence. In 1695 he was 

 placed in the fee of Seneza, a bilhopric of fmall revenue, 

 but which, being in a retired fituation, required little of the 

 parade of office, and permitted him to expend the greateit 

 Ihare of his income in charity. To his various virtues as 

 a Chriftian paftor, he united a firmnefs which enabled him 

 to fuftain the part of a martyr to principle. On the pub- 

 lication of the bull Unigenitus, which contained a con- 

 demnation of Quefnel's opinions, he appealed againft it to 

 a future council, and pubhflied a paftoral letter, in which he 

 controverted its pofitions with great force of argument. 

 Cardinal Fleury, refolving to make an example of a dif- 

 obedient prelate, felefted Soanen for a vittim ; and in 1727, 

 aflembling the council of Embrun, procured a condemnation 

 of the licentious biftiop, who was fufpended from his prieftly 

 and epifcopal functions, and exiled. In his retreat he had 

 numerous vifitors, who paid him the refpcA due to his 

 virtue and integrity. He died in the year 1740, at the 

 age of 92, revered by the Janfenifts as a faint, and con- 

 demned by the Mohnifts as a rebel. He was author of 

 " Paftoral Inftrudions," " Charges," and " Letters," 

 which were printed, with his " Life," in 2 vols. 4to. and 

 8 vols. T2mo. 



SOANES, in Ancient Geography, a people of Afia, in 

 the Colchide, being of the number of thofe who were in 

 the general aflembly of Diofcuria?, and who inhabited the 

 fummits of mount Caucafus, above the town of Diofcurias, 

 according to Strabo. 



SOANGUR, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Guzerat ; 5omiles S. of Surat. N. lat. 21° 10'. E. long. 



if 33'- ^ . , ., 



SOANK, a town of Hindooftan, m Bahar ; 45 miles 



S.S.E. of Bahar.— Alfo, a river of Hindooftan, which 



rifes near Burwah, in Bahar, and runs into the Bramnee, 



near Khoud, in Orifta. 



SOAP, in Chemifiry, is a name for thofe bodies which 

 are compounds of the alkalies with fat and the fixed oilt. 

 The earths and the other metallic oxyds alfo combine with 

 fat and oils, forming neutral compound?. The former hare 

 been called earthy, and the latter metallic foaps. 



The foaps formed by the alkalies have the diftinguilhing 

 character of being foluble in water and alcohol. The earthy 



foaps- 



