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(fee Scurvy), this foup was the means of making his people 

 «at a greater quantity of greens than they would have done 

 otherwife, and fo far we mull allow it to have been virtually 

 antifeptic. For the method of preparing cakes for portable 

 fo6p, by Chaptal, &c. fee Jelly. 



SouPi in ylgricuhure, a term applied to fuch liquid animal 

 food or provifions, as are formed by cutting various dry ma- 

 terials, fuch as hay, ftraw, &c. and blending them with 

 liquid matters ; and alfo to fuch as are prepared with meals 

 of different forts, fuch as that of oats, peas, beans, and 

 others of a fimilar kind. By this praftice, the fubftances 

 are not only found to go much farther, but to have a much 

 ereater effect in promoting the growth or fattening of the 

 animals. 



The advantages of preparing the food, and feeding fome 

 forts of animals in this way, are now well known, as fuch 

 food not only goes much farther, but affords a much greater 

 improvement in the animals. The advantage of feeding 

 young hogs with foups of thefe kinds are fail becoming 

 well underllood ; and the animals are found to go on far 

 better with them than in the old methods of proceeding, 

 but there is Hill much to be done in regard to the modes of 

 preparing of them, and the conditions in which they fhould 

 be at the time they are given. See Swine. 



SOUPROSSE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Landes ; 6 miles S.E. of Tartas. 



SOUR. See Sur. 



Sour, a river of France, which rifes near Baftogne, in 

 the department of the Forefts, and runs into the Mofelle, 

 3 miles above Treves. 



Souu Gujlan, a town of Algiers, near mount Jurjura. 



&ovv.-Doch, in Botany. See Sorrel. 



d>ovv.-Food, in Agriculture, fuch food as has been rendered 

 •four by the acetous fermentation, and which has lately been 

 faid to be of fuperior utility in the fattening of animals. 

 Oxen as well as fwine have lately been fuppofed by fome to 

 feed fafler, where their food has been brought into this con- 

 dition before ufing it, than when ufed in the natural (late. 

 See STALL-feeditig. 



SoVR-Gourd, in Botany. See Adansonia. 



Soun-Gra/s, in Agriculture, the coarfe tufty herbage 

 ufually met with about the dung-heaps in fields, and where 

 there is much ftagnant moifture. It is obferved by Dr. 

 Darwin, that where a piece of grafs is over-run with tuffocks 

 of four-grafs, which often happens near towns, he has been 

 informed, that lime or coal-afhes fpread on them, would 

 render the grafs fweeter, fo that horfes or cattle would eat 

 it. But he fuppofes the more certain and advantageous 

 management would confill in mowing it frequently, and 

 giving it to horfes or cattle in the liable or ftall ; as he be- 

 lieves they will eat it greedily after it has been a few hours 

 withered, and thus the land will not only yield more pro- 

 vender at prefent, but after a few mowings a fweeter grafs 

 will rife in the place of that which was of a bad kind, or 

 of too luxuriant growth, for which purpofe it ftiould be 

 mowed as near the ground as may be ; or if it be frequently 

 mowed during the fummer, and left on the ground, fome 

 cattle will eat it, when it is withered to a certain degree ; by 

 which the difagreeable flavour of it is probably lell'ened or 

 deftroyed. Proper drainage and clofe feeding fuch lands, 

 are likewife ufcful methods of bringing them into a ftate of 

 better and fweeter grafs. 



SovR-Kroute. See Croute. 



SovR-Land, in Agriculture, a term applied to cold clayey 

 foils, and fuch as have fome fort of impervious ftrata at no 

 great diftance from the furface, by which they are kept in a 

 wet and four flate. See CtAY, and Clayey Soil. 



Hou^-Sop, in Botany. See Annona. 



SOUR A, in Geography, a town of the Arabian Irak, 

 on the Euphrates; 1J3 miles N.W. of Baffora. 



SouRA, a town of Portugal, in Eftremadura, fituated 

 on the river Soure ; 7 miles S.S.E. of Montemor o VeUio. 



SOURABAYA, a pleafant town on the N.E. coaft of 

 the ifland of Java, fituated on the banks of a river, a mile 

 and a half diftant from the fea-fhore, fo that only the flag- 

 ilaff can be feen from the road. The river is navigable up 

 to the town for vcffels of 100 tons burthen, and the bank 

 on one fide is made convenient for tacking. The Chinefe 

 carry on a confiderable trade here, and have a town on the 

 fide of the river oppofite to Sourabaya. The country 

 near the town is flat, and the foil light, fo that they plough 

 with a fingle bullock, or buffalo. The latitude in Soura- 

 baya road is 7" 11' S. The Dutch had a refident in this 

 place, with the rank of fenior merchant, and the title of 

 the commander of the eaftern dillrift. The chief commo- 

 dity of this government is rice. The interior parts of the 

 country, near the mountains, are infelled with a breed of 

 fierce tigers, which render travelling dangerous. Here is 

 alfo a breed of horfes, fmall, but handfome and ftrong. 

 The Javanefe in the vicinity are numerous. Stavorinus's 

 Voyage, vol. ii. 



SOURAH, a town of ' Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Aurungabad ; 20 miles S.S.E. of Jaffierabad. 



SOU RAN, a town of Perfia, in Khorallan ; 255 miles 

 N. of Herat. 



SOURAPATA, a kingdom on the S. coaft of the 

 ifland of Java. 



SOURATAU HOUTCHIN, a town of Chinefe Tar; 

 tary, in the country of the Monguls. N. lat. 53° 54'. E. 

 long. 114° 34'. 



SOURDEVAL, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Channel, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 dillrift of Mortain ; 4 miles N. of Mortain. The place 

 contains 3896, and the canton 9580 inhabitant*, on a terri- 

 tory of 115 kihometres, in 9 communes. 



SOURDON, in Natural Hijlory, the name of a bivalve 

 fhell-fifh found on the coaft of Poitou, and other places. 

 It is a fmall filh, its length being httle more than an inch, 

 and its breadth about three quarters of an inch ; its fliells are 

 both confiderably convex ; the outer furface is deeply fur- 

 rowed, but the infide is perfeftly fmooth : the fifh buries 

 itfelf lightly in the fand, and has a pipe of communication, 

 which it raifes to the furface ; but as this creature never 

 buries itfelf deep, the pipe is neceflarily very ftiort ; but 

 they are cut into feveral fegments at the extremity, and 

 appear as it were fringed, and have feveral hairs growing 

 from thefe fegments. The fourdon is capable of a pro- 

 greflive motion by means of a limb, fomewhat refembling 

 that of the other chamse, but more than any approaching 

 the nature of a leg, as it in fome meafure reprefents, in 

 miniature, a human leg with a clumfy boot upon it : by 

 means of this limb the creature can eafily bury itfelf in the 

 fand, or rife up out of it, or move horizontally on the 

 furface, and that as well backwards as forwards, and with 

 more fwiftnefs than could well be fuppofed. Mem. Acad. 

 Par. 1 7 10. 



SOURE, in Geography, a river of Portugal, which 

 runs into the Mondego ; 4 miles S. of Montem.or o Velhi). 



SOURE RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Cicacole ; 40 miles W.N.W. of Ganjam. 



SOURI, a town of Perfia, in the province of Lariftan, 

 on the Perfian gulf; 38 miles S.W. of Ormus. 



SOURING Lime for Mortar and Plajler, in Rural 

 Ecmomy, the praftice of macerating and rendering it pro- 

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