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SOOLOO, one of the Philippine ifiands, in the Eaft 

 Indian fea, about 30 miles long and 10 broad, and con- 

 taining 60,000 inhabitants, who are Malays, governed by 

 a king or fultan, with an ariftocracy of about fifteen nobles, 

 named " datoos," who form the greatefl part of the legif- 

 lature, whofe title is hereditary to the eldefl fon, and who 

 fit in council with the fultan. This ifland enjoys a per- 

 petual fummer, and produces a great variety of fruit : it 

 abounds with the tree called teak. Many Chinefe live on 

 the ifland, and carry on great trade, fending to Canton 

 black and white fwallows, wax, pearls, teepye, or pearl 

 oylter-fhells, bird's-nells, tortoile-fhell, fago, rattans, fan- 

 dal, and various dyeing woods, cinnamon, or caflia, &c. At 

 Sooloo, and many neighbouring iflands, the pearl fifhery 

 has been carried on for ages, and is the principal fource of 

 their wealth. The dominions of Sooloo extend over the 

 principal part of the archipelago of iflands between Borneo 

 and Mindanao, called the Sooloo Archipelago, and even on 

 the north coaft of the former ifland. Their religion is Ma- 

 hometan, but in their morals they are faithlefs and cruel. 

 The Englifh Eaft India company have an agent in this 

 ifland. On the neighbouring fea are fome excellent pearl 

 fiflieries ; and abundance of edible bird-nefts are found, 

 efpecially in a fmall ifland, or rock, to the S.W. of Sooloo ; 

 but the principal produAion is fago. The fituation is be- 

 tween Borneo and Mindanao, 42 miles S.W. from the latter. 

 N. lat. 6°. E. long. 119°. 



Sooloo Archipelago, a part of the Eaftern Indian fea, 

 covered with a great number of fmall iflands, extending 

 from the S.W. coaft of Mindanao to the N.E. coaft of 

 Borneo. 



SOOMA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 

 45 miles E. of Jedo. 



SOOMGONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Goondwana ; 

 10 miles S. of Nagpour. 



SOOMOONANG, a lofty range of mountains, which 

 forms the boundary of Thibet on the louth, and divides it 

 from Bootan. 



SOONABATTY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 

 40 miles E. of Doefa. 



SOONAJURA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal; 50 

 miles W. of Silhet. 



SOONAL, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 

 Malwa, of confiderable extent, of a fquare form, and in- 

 clofed within a ftone wall. Two wide ftreets crofs one 

 another, at right angles, in the middle of the town, which 

 is the " Chovvk." There are 32 villages in this per- 

 gunnah. 



SOONAM, or SuNXAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 country of Delhi ; 136 miles W.N.W. of Delhi. N. lat. 

 29° 57'. E. long. 75° 31'. 



SOONAMOOKY, a town of Bengal ; 13 miles N. of 

 Bifl'unpour. N. lat. 23° 18'. E. long. 87° 33'. 



SOONDA, a fmall country of Hindooftan, near the 

 weft coaft, between Canara and Concan, about 40 miles 

 from north to fouth, and 30 from eaft to weft. After the 

 death of Tippoo, fultan of Myfore, this country was af- 

 figned to the Mahrattas. 



SOONGARES, a nation of Ruflia, which, at the re- 

 paration of the Mongolian monarchy, formed one ftock 

 with the Derbetans, but afterwards parted, under two dif- 

 cordant brothers of their princely family. It was this 

 horde which, in the 17th and i8th centuries, reduced to 

 their fubjeftion a great part of the other Kalmuck races, 

 particularly the Khofchot, Derbet, and Kho-it ; and waged 

 bloody wars with the Mongoles, as well as with the Chinefe 

 empire itfelf, but which ended in their total fubjugation and 



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difperfion. Previoufly to this unhappy period, they, to- 

 gether with the Derbets, numbered upwards of 50,000 

 bows, or fighting men, and pafted in modern times tor the 

 braveft, richeft, and moft powerful horde. Their feat was 

 formerly about the Balkhafh lake, and its rivers Tfchuy 

 and Ily ; and their moft flourifliing period was between the 

 years 1 696 and 1 746. The towns of the eaftern Bucharia 

 and the great Kirghife horde were, about this time, tri- 

 butary to them. They conquered Budala, the capital of 

 the Dalai-lama, and raifed contclts in Siberia, where they 

 made tributary fome nations belonging to Ruflia. On the 

 death of their khan Galdaii Zeren, a dilTulution of the 

 liorde enfued, occafioned by dilptites concerning the fuc- 

 ccflion ; when the Torgots, the Khofchots, and Derbets, 

 feparated from it. Many of the Soongarians difperfed 

 themfelves in the interior parts of Afia, and quite into the 

 Ufl)eck towns ; fome thoufands of them fled into Siberia ; 

 when the generality accommodated themfelves to the Chi- 

 nefe fovereignty : and from their own ftatements it appears, 

 that fcarcely 20,000 families of them and of the Derbetaa 

 nation are now remaining. The number of the Soongares, 

 who at that time (1758) took refuge in Rulfia, amounted 

 to about 20,000 perfons. They were united with the 

 Volgaic Kalmucks, but for the moft part returned with 

 them, in the year 1 770, again into the Soongarey. Tooke's 

 View of the Rufl. Emp. vol. i. 



SOONGEY PESANG Bay, a bay on the well coaft of 

 Sumatra. S. lat. o"^ 57'. E. long. 99'' 50'. 



SOONKY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; 15 miles 

 W.N.W. of Arrah. 



SOON WALLA, a town of Hindooftan, in Berar ; 17 

 miles W. of Akoat. 



SOONYGONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Goond- 

 wana ; 60 miles N. of Ramteak. 



SOOP. See Soup. 



SOOPA, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in Dow- 

 latabad ; 27 miles E. of Poorunder. 



SOOPOUR, a town of Napaul, on the borders of Ba- 

 har ; 120 miles N. of Patiia. — Alfo, a town of Bengal; 

 30 miles S.E. of Nagore. N. lat. 23° 38'. E. long. 87^ 

 4S'. — Alfo, a town of Bengal ; 45 miles N.W. of Midna- 

 pour. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan ; 5 miles N.W. of 

 Benares. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 46 miles 

 N.N.E. of Gooracpour. N. lat. 27° 20'. E. long. 84° 13'. 



SOOPSUNDY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic ; 

 10 miles S.S.E. of Tanjore. 



SOOR, or Shook, a name given to the river Indus, be- 

 tween Attock and Moultan. 



SooR. See Tsor. 



SOORANGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the Oriflk 

 country, near the river Mahanada ; the burial-place of an 

 Englifliman of the name of Elliot, who died on his way from 

 Calcutta to Nagpour in the year 1778. Mr. Haftings 

 caufed a monument to be erefted on the fpot to his me- 

 mory ; 200 miles E. of Nagpour. 



SOORAPATEE, a kingdom of the ifland of Java, on 

 the fouth coait, eaft of Panaraga. 



SOORAPETTA, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda ; 

 33 miles S. of Combamet. 



SOORATPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar; 

 lo miles N.N.E. of Arrah. 



SOOREAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Ruttunpour ; 28 miles S.S.E. of Ruttunpour. 



SOORJEW, a name given to the Dewah, in Thibet. 



SOORMA, a river of Afia, which rifes in Meckley, 

 and mins into the Burrampooter, near Sunerampour, in 

 Bengal. 



SOOROOT, 



