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bination with rich earthy fubftances. All the various refufe 

 matters of this fort (hould be coUefted, as they are capable 

 of being ufed in this way with advantage to the farmer. 

 See Saline Manures. 



SoAP-Sione, in Mineralogy, a variety of fteatite. (See 

 Steatite.) The name is derived from the colour, and the 

 peculiar unftuous feci, v.-hich refembles that of white foap. 

 It is fometimes itriped and mottled with veins and fpots of 

 a dull purple. When firft quarried it is very foft, and 

 yields to the nail ; but gradually grows harder by expofure 

 to the air, though it never lofes the foapy feel by which it 

 is charaAerized. The only part of England where foap- 

 flone is procured is at the promontory of the Lizard, in 

 Cornwall: it occurs in veins in ferpentine, to which rock 

 it fecms nearly allied. A large quantity of this Hone is 

 ufed in the china manufafture at Worcefter. Its value 

 arifes from its great infufibility, and its property of pre- 

 ferving its whitenefs in the furnace. The former it derives 

 from the abfence of lime, or the alkalies ; the latter from 

 the abfence of metallic matter, of which a very fmall por- 

 tion only can be traced by chemical analyfis. The frafture 

 of foap-ftone is uneven and fplintery ; it is tranflucent in 

 minute fragments ; it cracks and falls to powder in hot 

 water. 



SoAv-Eart/}, Smyrna. See Flos yf/ia, Natron, and 

 Saponace.i Terra. 



SOAPBERRY-Tri;e, in Botany. See Sapindu.s. 



The flcin or pulp of the berries of the foapberry-tree is 

 ufed as foap : they are of the fize of a mufliet-ball, with 

 winged leaves, and are ufed in wafhing without any admix- 

 ture of fait or oil. They perform the office of foap very 

 well, as to the cleanfing of the linen, but being of a very 

 acid nature, they rot it in time. 



The Negroes in general ufe them for their coarfe apparel, 

 which bears them much better than the finer linen worn by 

 the Europeans. 



It is faid, that this fruit is a medicine of fingular and 

 fpecific virtue in chlorofes, and that a tinfture or extraft is 

 preferable to the berry in fubftance ; whence it may be pre- 

 fumed, that the foapy matter is didoluble in fpirit. Its 

 medicinal virtue was firlt publilhed by Marloe, in a letter 

 to Mr. Boyle ; but it is unknown in prafticc, and in the 

 (hops. Lewis. 



SOAPERS' Waste, in Agriculture, the wafte materials 

 of foap manufaftories, and of other places where works of 

 this nature are carried on, which arc ufeful as manure. 

 Thefe wafte matters have been recommended in this inten- 

 tion, moltly on the fuppofition, that their effcfts principally 

 depended upon the different faline matters which they cou- 

 tained ; but it has been found, that the quantity of fuch 

 fubftances in them is very fmall indeed, and that it prin- 

 cipally confitts of mild lime and quicklime. It is faid that 

 lime, when made wet with falt-water, yields more of this 

 wallc than in other cafes, and is capable of being employed 

 as manure, in certain cafes, with greater benefit than that 

 of lime in its ordinary ftate. Thi'i is a material which -is 

 very cxtenfivtly made ufe of in fome diftrifts. 



SOAPEY Rock, in Geography, a rock in the Englifh 

 Channel, clofe to the Cornifh coaft ; 4 miles N.W. of 

 Lizard Point. 



SOAPWORT, in Botany, &c. See Sai'Onakia. 



SOAR, or Sour, anciently Leire, in Geography, a river 

 of England, which rifes about five miles from Lutterworth, 

 pafTes by Leicefter, &c. and runs into the Trent on the 

 borders of Nottinghamfliirc, about three miles N.N.E, of 

 Kegworth, 



Soar, a fort of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 23 miles N. of 

 Durbunga. N. lat. 26° 30'. E. long. 86^ 5'. 



StOAU-Haivt. See Falcon. 



SOAR A, in Ancient Geography, a river of India, on this 

 fide of the Ganges. Ptolemy. 



SOASTUS, a river of India, which ran into the Cephas, 

 according to Arrian. 



SOATRLS, a town of Lower Mccfia, upon the Euxine 

 fea, between Marcianopolis and Anchiale, according to the 

 Itinerary of Antouine. 



SOATTO. See Soaggio. 



SOAVE, Ital. was a muficalterm, formerly, for finging 

 or playing in a fweet and pleafing manner ; but dolce has 

 long fupplied its place ; which fee. 



SOAVO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the Vero- 

 nefe ; 10 miles E. of Verona. 



SOAY, a fmall ifland on the coaft of Sutherlandfhire, 

 near the entrance of Loch Inver. It affords good pafturage 

 for fheep. N. lat. 56^ 29'. W. long. 6° 27'. 



SOB, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Oby ; 32 

 miles S.W. of Obdoril<oi. 



SOBALA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia Minor, 

 in Caria. Steph. Byz. 



SOBALASSARA, a town of India, on this fide of 

 the Ganges, which Ptolemy attributes to the Cafpiraei. 



SOBANNUS, a river of India, on this fide of the 

 Ganges, the mouth of which is placed by Ptolemy betweea 

 Pagrafa and Pithonobafte. 



SOBATZ, in Geography, a town of Sclavonia, on the 

 river Save ; 30 miles W.S.W. of Belgrade. 



SOBERNHEIM, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Rhine and Mofelle ; 10 miles W.S.W. of 

 Creutznach. N. lat. 49° 45'. E. long. 7° 45'. 



SOBHA, in Hindoo Mythology, is a perfonification of 

 beauty, and the name of a nymph celebrated in the annals 

 of the Eaft for her amours with Krijhna ; which fee. See 

 alfo Radha, for the tranflation of a paiTage wherein fhe 

 is mentioned. 



SOBIESKI's Shield, in Agronomy. See Scutum 

 Soiiefii. 



SOBIESKY, in Biography. See John, king of Po- 

 land. 



SOBIESLAU, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in 

 the circle of Bcchin ; 10 miles E. of Bechin. N. lat. 

 49° 18'. E. long. 14° 34'. 



SOBINKA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bo- 

 leflau ; 5 miles S.W. of Jung Buntzel. 



SOBOTALE, in Ancie/it Geography, a town of Arabia 

 Felix, which, according to Pliny, was the capital of the 

 Atramites. 



SOBOTKA, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of Boleflau ; 1 1 miles E.S.E. of Jung Buntzel. N. 

 lat. 50" 24'. E. long, ij^ii'. 



SOBRADA, a town of Spain, in Galicia; 9 mile* 

 E.S.E. of Lugo. 



SOBRADILLO, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Leon ; 24 miles N.N.W. of Civdad Rodrigo. 



SOBRALIA, in Botany, a genus dedicated, in the 

 Flora Peruviana, p. 109, to the honour of Don Francis 

 Martin Sobral, a diftinguidied Spanilh botanift. Dt 

 Theis. 



SOBRARVA, in Geography, a diftrift and principality 

 of Spain, included in Aragon, W. of Ribagorga, anciently 

 a fmall kingdom. 



SOBRE BITENA, a name given by the Spaniard* in 

 America to a fpecies of vanilla, which i8 greatly fuperior 

 tP all the other kinds, 



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