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and parents in another world, was to be embraced with the 

 mod eager alacrity, and the higheft fenfations of plcafure. 

 This is the doftrine of the " Edda." Warton's Hift. of 

 Enjr. Poetry, Diff. I. 



SOGDIANA, a country of Afia, between the rivers 

 Jaxartes and Oxus, towards the N.E. of the territories 

 known to the ancients. See Bokhara, Buchari A, Mawar- 

 UL-NERE, and SoGD. 



SoGDiANA Petra, a fortrefs of Afia, in Sogdiana, 

 fituated on a crapgy rock. Alexander beneged and toolt it, 

 and there found Roxana, the daughter of Oxiartes, accord- 

 ing to Arrian. 



SOGERVI, in Geography, a town of Nubia, on the E. 

 fide of the Nile ; 20 miles W. of Ibrira. 



SOGESTA, a town of Sweden, in Eall Gothland; 

 6 miles N.N.W. of Linkioping. 



SOGGENDAAL, a town of Norway ; 32 miles S. of 

 Stavagner. 



SOGGETTO, ltd.].,/uijea, an initial theme or text, in 

 Mujic, for a compofer to work into a movement for voices 

 or inllruments, without any limitation of parts in its accom- 

 paniment. 



A fubjeft is frequently given by a mafter to a ftudent in 

 counterpoint, in the bafe, the tenor, or the treble, for him 

 to write upon, or find accompaniments to in every ftation, 

 alternately ; which, when happily achieved, becomes double 

 counterpoint. Writing upon canto fermo, as is conllantly 

 done by the fludents in the confervatorios at Naples, for 

 feveral years, before they are allowed to fet words or ex- 

 ercife their fancy in infirumental compofitions, is of this 

 kind. Candidates for organifts' places, and other profeflional 

 appointments and honours, have fubjefts of fugue frequently 

 given them at eleftions, to play upon extempore ; which, 

 if the judges are profound and fevere, is a trial of abilities 

 and courage, in which few are able to acquit themfelves to 

 their fatisfadion. See Fugue, Canto Fermo, Double 

 Counterpoint, and Roseingrave. 



SOGLAH, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in the province of Caramania ; 42 miles S. of Cogni. 



SOGLIO d't Bar'i, an ifland near the coaft of Naples, 

 in tlie gulf of Tarento ; 1 1 miles W. of Aleflano. 



SOGNE, a town of Norway, in the province of Chrif- 

 tiania, near Chriftiania. 



SoGNE Bay, a wide river of Norway, 40 miles long, 

 and about two broad, which runs into the North fea, N. 

 lat. 61° 2'. E. long, f 20'. 



SOGNO, SoNGO, or Sonho, a province of Africa, in 

 the kingdom of Congo, on the S. fide of the Zaire, along 

 the coait of the Atlantic : its chief articles of trade are 

 flaves and elephants' teeth : the inhabitants generally pro- 

 fefs themfelves to be Chriftians. — Alfo, a tov/n of Africa, 

 the capital of the above-mentioned province. It is a large 

 ft''3g&'inR town, confining of about 400 houfes, fituated 

 on a creek or fmall river, about a mile from the Zaire. 

 The houfes are in general thatched, and the fides or walls, 

 (if they may be fo called,) compofed of palm-branches, 

 interwoven with leaves. The Englifh faftory, that for- 

 merly fubfifted in this place, has been long fince abandoned. 

 SOGOCARA, in yfncient Geography, a town of Afia, 

 in the Greater Armenia. Ptolemy. 



SOGONI, in Geography, a town of Nubia, on the Nile ; 

 115 miles S. of Sycne. 



SO'- ACZOW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 38 

 miles £.1m.E. of Lancicz. 



SOHAGEPOUR, a circar of Hindooltan, in Alla- 

 habad, bounded an the N. by Boggilcund and Chandail, 

 on the E. by Singrowla and Chohan, on the S. by Gurry 



Mundella, and on the W. by Gurrah. — Alfo, a tow« 



of Hindooftan, and capital of the above-named diftriftj 

 120 miles S. of Allahabad. N. lat. 2«° io'. E. lone. 

 81° 54'. ^ ^ 



SOHAIG, a town of Egypt, on the W. fide of the 

 Nile ; 3 miles N. of Achmim. 



SOHAL, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman ; 

 72 miles S.W. of Mafcat. 



SOHAM, formerly Seham, a town in the hundred of 

 Staplehoe, and county of Cambridge, England, is fituated 

 on the borders of that county, adjoining Suffolk, at the 

 dillance of 5 miles S.E. of Ely, and 7 N. of Newmarket. 

 Here was formerly a market on Thurfdays, but it has been 

 difcontinued about a century. Two annual fairs are, how- 

 ever, dill held here. 'During the Anglo-Saxon dynafty, 

 Soham appears to have been a place of fome confequence, and 

 according to Leland (" CoUeftanea," vol. ii. p. 247.) was the 

 feat of the Eaft Anglian bifhops. The fame author dates, 

 that Felix, the firll bilhop, was buried at this place, and that 

 his body was afterwards removed to Ramfey. The bilhop's 

 palace and the church were dellroyed by the Danes in 870. 

 Some remains of ancient buildings are now vifible. Part 

 of this pariih was formerly occupied by a large mere or 

 lake, which covered about 1369 acres, but the water has 

 been drained off, and the land appropriated to tillage. On 

 the divifion of the commons of Soham, in 1685, fir Tho- 

 mas Chicheley, then lord of the manor, and the other land- 

 holders, allotted 116 acres of moor or fen-land for the bene- 

 fit of the poor. A fchool was then founded, and a fchool- 

 mafter now receives 50/. a-year for fuperintending the poor 

 children of the pariih. Tliree alms-houfes were founded 

 here in 1502 by Richard Bond; and in 1581, nine others 

 for widows were founded by Thomas Pechey. Lyfons's 

 Magna Britannia, Cambridgefhire, vol. ii. part i. 4to. 

 1808. 



SOHAR, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman, 

 formerly a place of great fplendour, but now of little or 

 no importance ; 44 miles N.W. of Mafcat. N. lat. 



24° 17'- 



SOHAUL, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Boggilcund ; 30 miles W. of Rewah. 



SOHAUN, one of the fmaller rivers of the Panjab, 

 in Hindooftan, which takes its courfe between the Behut 

 and Sinde, and runs into the latter about 60 miles S. of 

 Attock. 



SOHDA, a town of Bengal; 35 miles S.E. of Doefa. 



SOHLEN, a town of Wettphaha ; 6 miles S.S.W. of 

 Magdeburg. 



SOHNER, a town of Norway, in the province of 

 Aggerhuus ; 25 miles S. of Chnlliania. 



SOHO. See Birmingham. 



SOHR, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Konigin- 

 gratz ; 6 miles S.E. of Arnau. 



SOHRAU, or Zyory, a town of Silefia, in the prin- 

 cipality of Ratibor ; 11 miles W.N.W. of Pies. 



SOIATOI, a fmall ifland of Ruffia, in the Cafpian fea; 

 148 miles S.E. of Aftrachan. N. lat. 44° 40'. E. long. 

 50° 14'. 



SOIGNIES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Jemmape, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 Mons, fituated on the Senne, near a foreft to which it gives 

 name; 6 miles N.N.E. of Mons. The place contain* 

 4247, and the canton 14,563 mhabitants, on a territory of 

 125 kiliometres, in 9 communes. 



SOIL, in Agriculture, a general name apphed to the 

 furface mouldy parts of all forts of land, and in which the 

 fine powdery materials, which have been gradually formed 



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