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inteftines ; fo that there is no room for another. See 

 TAENIA and Worm. 



Solitary IJlaml, in Geography, an ifland in the South 

 Pacific ocean, dilcovefed by Mendana in the year 1595. 

 It is low, round, and planted with trees ; and the coaft is 

 furrounded with rocks. S. lat. 10° 4'. W. long. 178° 20'. 



SoLiTAnv Iflandsy a cluiler of fmall iflands near the eaft 

 coaft of New Holland. S. lat. 30° 8'. 



SOLITAURILIA, in Jntiqulty. See SuovETAU- 



HILIA. 



SOLIVA, in Botimy, a genus in the Flora Peruviana, 

 page 102, dedicated to Salvator Soliva, a Spaniih phyfician 

 and botanift. De Theis. 



SOLIVE, Fr., among Carpenters, a joift, rafter, or 

 piece of wood, either flit or fawed, with which the builders 

 lay their cielings. 



SOLJURA, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 28 miles 

 S.S.E. of Curruckpour. 



SOLKIEV, or Zolkikv, a town of Auftrian Poland, 

 in Galicia ; 10 miles N. of Lemberg. 



SOLLAM Moss. See Solway Mofs. 



SOLLAPOUR, a circar of Hindooftan, in Vifiapour, 

 between the rivers Killnah and Beema, near their junftion. 

 — Alfo, a town of Hindooltan, and capital of the fore- 

 mentioned circar, on tlie Killnah ; 120 miles S.E. of Vifia- 

 pour. N. lat. 16^22'. E. long. 77° 10'. 



SOLLECITO, in Italian Miijlc. This word has two 

 acceptations : the one implies that a movement is to be per- 

 formed with a mournful and forrowing expreflion ; the 

 other means carefully, and with accuracy. 



SOLLERGUNGE, in Geography, a town of Hin- 

 dooftan, in Oude ; 9 miles E. of Lucknow. 



SOLLERO, a town of Sweden, in Dalecarlia, on an 

 ifland in lake Siljan ; 48 miles N.W. of Fahlun. 



SOLLIES LE PONT, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Var ; 13 miles S. of Brignole. 



SOLMISATION, or naming the notes in the fcale 

 according to the hexachord of Guido. See Mut.itions 

 and Sekra. 



SoJLMisATiON of the Greeks. The ancient Greeks had 

 their folmifation in vocal mufic, as well as the moderns ; 

 having for that purpofe ufed four monofyllables, ending 

 with different vowels, for the exercife of the voice in fing- 

 ing ; like our ml, fa, Jol, la. Thefe were, for the firil note 

 of each tetrachord, tx ; for the fecond, rr, ; for the third, 

 ^il ; and for the fourth, if it did not ferve as the firft of the 

 adjoining and relative tetrachord, ts ; but if it began a new 

 tetrachord, it was called by the firit name, ra. 



The repetition of thefe monofyllables is a further proof 

 that the fourth, in the ancient mufic, ferved as a boundary 

 to a fyftem of four founds, in the fame manner as a hexa- 

 chord did in the Guido fcale, and as an oftave does for 

 eight founds in the more modern praftice. 



SOLMIZARE, in the Italian Mujic. See Solfeg- 

 gi ark. 



SOLMS, in Giography, a principahty of Germany, 

 fituated in the Wetterau. The counts of Solms are fup- 

 pofed to be defccnded from the houfe of Nallau, and are 

 divided into feveral branches, ikz. Solms Braunfels, Solms 

 Hohen- Solms, Solms Laubdch, Solms Rodelheim, and 

 Solms Lich. 



SoL.Ms, Hohen. See Hohen-solms. 

 Solms, or Burg Solms, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Solms Braunfels, having formerly a callle, which 

 gave name to the county ; i mile. E. of Braunfels. 



SOLMSBACH, a river of Germany, which runs into 

 the Lahn, 2 miles N.£. of Braunfels. 



SOLNAN, a river of France, which joins the Seille at 

 Louhans, in the department of the Saone and Loire. 



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

 gratz ; 15 miles E. of Konigingratz. 



SOLO, a mountain of Naples, in Lavora ; 10 mile* 

 S.W. of Ponte Corvo. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Mewah ; 30 miles N. of Dig. — Alfo, a town of South 

 America, in the province of Cordova ; too miles N.W. of 

 Cordova. 



Solo, in Italian Mufic, ufed fubltantively, implies a 

 compofition for a fingle inftrument, with a quiet and fub- 

 dued accompaniment, to difplay the talents of a great per- 

 former ; as a folo for a viohn, German flute, or violoncello. 

 In full pieces, concertate, each part is informed when it be. 

 comes principal, by the word folo ; and when fubordinate, 

 by iuttl, which implies the chorus, or full band. 



In the concertos of Corelli, Geminiani, and Handel, 

 chiefly compofed a due corl, or two orcheftras, the principal 

 parts are faid to belong to the concertlnl, or folo parts ; ag 

 vlollno prima concertino, vlollno fecondo del concertino, &c. : 

 and the inferior part.s, that only play in the full chorus, arc 

 called rlplenl ; as vlollno prlmo rlpleno, vlollno fecondo rlpieno, 

 or del concerto groffo, or the great and full concert. 



Solos, which ufed to aff^ord the moft exquifite delight to 

 perfons of refined taite, when compofed and performed by 

 great matters, are now wholly laid afide ; and whoever at- 

 tempts to perform one, is fubjedted to a penalty inftead of 

 a reward ; a law inltituted at the concert of ancient mufic, 

 where a compofition was never thought complete by the 

 late earl of Sandwich, without a kettle-drum, nor with, un- 

 lefs he beat it himfelf. And at the Commemoration of 

 Handel, the double drums, double cartels, tromboni, &c. 

 augmented his lordftiip's pleafure, in proportion to the din 

 and ftenterophonic fcreams ot thefe truly favage inftruments ; 

 which, in fo wide a building as Weftminfter Abbey, and 

 foftened by fo powerful a chorus of voices and inftruments 

 as were aflembled at the Commemoration, had, occafionally, 

 a fine effeft ; but in a more confined fpace, the almoft in- 

 ceflant ufe of the tromboni, and perpetual roll of the 

 double drum?, annihilate all the pleafiiig effefts of melli- 

 fluous tones. 



SOLOAYS, in Geography, a town of Pennfylvania ; 

 24 miles N. of Eafton. 



SOLOE, in jinclent Geography, a town of the ifland of 

 Cyprus, built, according to Strabo, by Acamas and Pha- 

 lerus, both Athenians, but, as Plutarch fays, by Demophon, 

 on the banks of the river Clarius. It was fituated on an 

 eminence in a barren territory, and caHed " TEpira," denoting 

 high, on account of its elevated pofition. Many ages after- 

 wards, when Solon came to Cyprus and formed a league of 

 friendfliip with Phylocyptus, one of tlie kings of the ifland, 

 he adviffd him to remove the town to a neighbouring plain, 

 on the banks of a river with a port over-againft Cilicia. 

 Tliis new city was called ioAoi, and in Latin Solae or 

 Soli, from the name of Solon. It i« now " Solin." An- 

 other town of the fame name in Cilicia, is called by Phny 

 " Soloe Cilicii," by way of diftindion from the other. This 

 was afterwards called " Pompeiopolis." 



Solok, a cape of Africa, on the Atlantic ocean, which 

 the Periplus of Hannon places at the diftance of three days' 

 journey fouth of the promontory " Hcrmeum." Hannon 

 built on the fummit an altar conUcrated to Neptune, and it 

 was in procefs of time adorned witli bas-relief works of art, 

 which rendered it the molt celebrated place on the coaft. 



SOLOE IS, a promontory of Libya, at the extremity 

 of mount Atlas, now called Cape Cantin. It is mentioned 

 by Herodotus. 



SOLOEN. 



