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painters, is defigned to exhibit the comparative merit of the 

 JBritifh finging birds : in which twenty is fuppofed to be the 

 point of abfolute perfeftion. 



Nightingale - - . • - 

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Wood- lark 



Tit-lark 



Linnet •-.---- 



Goldfinch 



Chaffinch 



Greenfinch - - . . . 

 Hedge-lp arrow . - - - 

 Aberdavine or fifltin - - 



Red-poll 



Thrjfh 



Blackbird 



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V/ren 



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mock nightingale - - -j 



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See Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixiii. pt. ii. art. 31. p. 249, &c. 



Song, Refponfary. See Respon'sary. 



SONGARI, in Geography, a river of Chinefe Tartary, 

 which joins the Amur at Saghalien. — Alfo, a town of 

 Chinefe Tartary ; 10 miles N.W. of Foe Petoune Hotun. 



SONGEONS, a town of France, in the department of 

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

 Beauvais ; 1 2 miles N.W. of Beauvais. The place con- 

 tains 1041, and the canton 12,577 inhabitants, on a terri- 

 tory of 205 kiliometres, in 29 communes. 



SONG-HOA, a town of Corea ; 50 miles S.W. of 

 Hoang. 



SONGI, a river of Malacca, which runs into the Chinefe 

 fea, N. lat. 2° 10'. E. long. 104° 10'. 



SoKGi Tanjang, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland of 

 Sumatra. N. lat. 2° 35'. E. long. 97= 10'. 



SONGIEU, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Ain ; 13 miles N. of Belley. 



SONG-KI, a town of China, of the third rank, in Fo- 

 kien ; 40 miles N.N.E. of Kien-nhing. 



SONG-KJANG, a city of China, of the firit rank, in 

 Kiang-nan, fituated in the midlt of feveral rivers or canals, 

 near the fea, fo that the Chinefe junks approach it in every 

 direftion. It carries on a large trade in cotton cloth, which 

 the inhabitants fend to different parts of the empire. It has 

 four towns in its jurifdiftion ; 560 milts S. of Peking. 

 N. lat. 31°. E. long. 1 20° 44'. 



SONG-MEN-CHAN, a fmall ifland, near the coaft of 

 China, in Tche-kiang. N. lat. 28'' 22'. E. long. 121° 21'. 



SONGO, or Sango, a town of Africa, in the kingdom 

 of Mandingo, near the coaft of the Gambia. 



SoNGO. See Saxkari and Sogno. 



SONGOA, an ifland in the ttraits of Malacca, about 

 50 miles in circumference. N. lat. 2° 18'. E. long, 

 loo'^ 30'. 



SONGOO, a fmall ifland in the Indian fea, near the 

 coaft of Africa. S. lat. 7° 20'.— Alfo, a town on the eait 



coaft of the ifland of Banca. 

 106" 16'. 



S. lat. 2° 12'. E. long. 



SON 



SONGORA. See Sangora, 



SONG-TCHOUI, a town of China, of the third rank, 



in Hou-quang ; 40 miles N.E. of Ou-tchang. 



SONG-TSI, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Hou-quang ; 27 miles W. of KiHg-tcheou. 



SONG-YANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Tche-kiang ; 22 miles W. of Tchu-tcheou. 



SONGY-DAVAN, a town on the weft coaft of Su. 

 matra. N. lat. 1° 18'. E. long 98° 12'. 



SONGY-LAMA, a town on the weft coaft of Sumatra. 

 S. lat. 3° 40'. E. long. 101° 57'. 



SONHO, SoNGO, or Sogno. See SoGNO. 



SON-HOIT, a diftria of Chinefe Tartary, in the ter- 

 ritory of the Mongols. N. lat. 42° 4S'. E. long. 1 14° 27'. 



SONKOE, a town of Bengal ; 15 miles W.N.W. of 

 Moorfhedabad. 



SONMEANY, the principal fea-port in the diftrift of 

 Lus, and province of Mekran, in Perfia. It is a fmall and 

 mean town, and was deftroyed in 1809 by the Jouaflimees. 

 It is fituated on an elevated bank, at the mouth of the river 

 Pooralee, which forms a bar about a mile from the town, 

 three fathoms deep at low-water, and boats can anchor clofe 

 to the ftiore. The inhabitants, with the exception of a few 

 Hindoo merchant?, live chiefly by fifhing. Frtfli water is 

 procured by digging in the fand : and it is neceflary that the 

 well be immediately filled up ; for if it be fuffered to remain 

 open, the water becomes fait. 



SONNA, a book, or coUeftion of the Mahometan tra- 

 ditions, or of the fayings and aftions of their prophet, which 

 all the orthodox Muflulmen are required to believe. This 

 is a kind of fupplement to the Koran, directing the ob- 

 fervance of feveral things omitted in that book, and in 

 fenfe, as w^ell as defign, correfponding to the Miflina of 

 the Jews. See Mahometaxism. 



The word fignifies, in Arabic, the fame with m'lfl.ma in 

 the Hebrew, that is, fecond la-w ; or, as the Jews call it, 

 oral laiu. 



The adherents to the Sonna are called Sonnifes, or TraJi- 

 tionaries ; and as, among the .Tews, there is a feft of Ca- 

 raites, who rejeft the traditions as fables invented by the 

 rabbins ; there are alfo feclaries among the Mahometans, 

 called Scbiiles, (fee the article,) who rejeft the traditions 

 of the Sonnites, as being only founded on the authority of 

 an apocryphal book, and not derived to them from their 

 legiflator. 



There is the fame enmity between the Sonnites and 

 Schiites, as between the rabbinilf Jews and the Caraites. 

 The Schiites reproach the Sonnites, with obtruding the 

 dreams of their doftors for the word of God ; and the 

 Sonnites, in their turn, treat the Schiites as heretics, who 

 refufe to admit the divine precepts, and who have corrupted 

 the Koran, &c. 



The Sonnites are fubdivided into four chief fefts, which, 

 notwithftanding fome differences as to legal conclufions in 

 their interpretations of the Koran, and matters of practice, 

 are generally acknowledged to be orthodox in radicals or 

 matters of faith, and capable of falvation ; and have each of 

 them their feveral ftations or oratories in the temple of 

 Mecca. The founders of ihefe feels are regarded as the 

 great mafters of jurifprudence, and are faid to have been 

 men of great devotion and felf-denial, well verfed in the 

 knowledge of thofe things which belong to a future life, 

 and to man's right conduft in the prefent ftate, and direft- 

 in^ all their knowledge to the glory of God. This is AI 

 Ghazeli's encomium of them, who thinks it derogatory to 

 their honour, that their names (hould be ufed by thofe who, 

 neglefting to imitate the other virtues which form their 



charafter. 



