S H O 



TjuWinicd in the Edinburgh Tranfaftions, concludes from die 

 works of Ptolemy and his contemporaries, that berica was 



China. , 



SERMON, col. 4, 1. 38, for Buller r. Butler. 

 SERPENTARIUS, or Snake-eater, m Ornithology, 

 a genus of birds allied both to Vultur and Falco, but moll 

 nearly to tlie former. The charaders are, beak vultunnc, 

 tongue pointed, and legs very long. It includes one fpe- 

 ciest •via., the S. Afrkamis, or afh-coloured fnake-eater, with 

 the hind-head crelled, tlie tail cuncated, and the middle tail- 



feathers lengthened. 



This is the V. Serpontarius or Secre- 



tary vulture of Latham, and the Falco Serpentariusof Gme- 

 lin's Liiuixus. The moll accurate defcription is that of 

 La Vaillant, who, in his African travels, had an opportunity 

 of obferving it in its native regions. We refer to the 7th 

 Tolume of Shaw's Zoology. It is an inhabitant of dry 

 ■open plains in the lower parts of Africa. 



SERPENTES Ater, 1. i, r. is wliite with black 



bands. 



SEVIER, 1. 2, r. 4595, and 294. 



SHAPLEIGH. Add— containing 2362 inhabitants. 



SHARON. Add after Portland — containing 944 inha- 

 bitants. — After Litchiield, having 2506 inhabitants. — After 

 Bofton, having 1 800 inhabitants. — After Norwich, hav- 

 ing 1363 inhabitants. Add — Alfo, a town of Hillfborough 

 county. New Hampfliirc, having 416 inhabitants. — Alfo, 

 a townfhip of Frankhn county, in Ohio, having 450 inha- 

 bitants. 



SHARP, Graxville, col. 3, 1. 33, for taken up on r. 

 taken upon. 



SHAT-UL-ARAB, 1. 16, /•. Bamiftiere and Mefenc ; 

 1. 20, r. Hafar. 



SHENANGO. Add— Alfo, a townfliip of Mercer 

 county, liaving 634 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Beaver 

 county, having 679 inhabitants. 



SHEPEY. Add— The largeft pariftt in this ifland is that 

 of Minfter, which in 181 1 contained 840 houfes, befides 20 

 that were not finifhed, and 5318 perfons ; viz.. 2596 males, 

 and 2722 females: 87 families being employed in agricul- 

 ture, and 1 163 in trade, manufactures, or handicraft. 



SHILLINGSTONE, or Shilling Okeford, a parifh 

 in the weft-divifion of Shanfton, in the county of Dorfet, 

 which in i8ii contained 75 houfes, and 385 inhabitants; 

 163 males, and 222 fem.ales. On the right of the village are 

 two high hills, called Hood and Hawkledon, on which are 

 the remains of an ancient Roman encampment. 



SHOES, col. 3, 1. 29 from bottom, for felt r. left. 



SHOREA, in Botany, in honour of iir John Shore, lord 



Teignmouth, late governor of Bengal Roxb. Corom. v. 3. 



9. Gsrtn. v. 3. 48. t. 186.— Clafs and order, Polyandria 

 Monogyma. Nat. Ord. Gutt'iferf, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Calyx of five imbricated leaves, fubfequently 

 enlarged, permanent. Petals five. Capfnle fuperior, of 

 one cell and one valve. Seed folitary. 



I. S. robujla. Saul-tree. Roxb. t. 212.— Found on the 

 Hcirts of the northern mountains of India. A majeftic tree, 

 whofe timber is much ufed, and next in value to the teak, 

 (fee Tectona,) being llronger, though far lefs durable. 

 l^caves alternate, ftalked, ovate, entire, acute, fmooth, from 

 four to eight inches long. Panieles downy, axillary and 

 terminal, of numerous, pale yellow, ilarry fiozuers, not an 

 inch wide. Cap/ii/e accompanied by five oblong, ribbed, 

 unequal wings, formed of the ca/yx. This genus is nearly 

 allied to DiPTEROCARPL's ; fee that article. 



SHORT Crei:K, in Geography, a townfhip of JefFcrfon 

 county, in Ohio, having 1890 inhabitants. 



S I D 



SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS, 1. 21, add— For Mr. 

 Ware's obfervations on this fubjeft, fee Spectacles. 



SHREWSBURY, in America, 1. 8, add— of whom 

 577 are (laves. At the end, add— Alfo, a toxvnfliip of Ly- 

 coming county, containing 294 inhabitants. 



SHROUD, 1.3, add — but the ftatute for this purpofe 

 has been repealed. 



SHUKUSKU, r. or Shukashu. 



SHUSTER, 1. 24, for magnitude r. magnificence. 



SIBH, a dillridl of the Pcrfian empire, in the province of 

 Mekran, confiiUng of an extenfive plain, governed by a 

 chief, who refides in a fmall town of the fame name. The 

 country, almoft deftitute of water, though a river, nearly dry, 

 flows through the centre of the plain, is, generally fpeaking, 

 barren, if we except fome groves of date-trees which formerly 

 grew in the bed of the river. 



SIDNEY, Sir Philip, in Biography, the eldcft fon of 

 fir Henry Sidney, by a daughter of the duke of Northum- 

 berland, was born at Penfhurll in Kent, in the year 1554- 

 He was named Philip in compliment to the king of Spain, 

 the hufband of queen Mary. In very early life he mani- 

 fetted a fedate iludious difpofition ; and he feduloufly im- 

 proved every advantage for gaining knowledge, which he 

 enjoyed, firll at Shrewfbury fchool, and afterwards at Ox- 

 ford, where he was entered at Cliriftchurch college in 1569, 

 and alfo at Cambridge. At the age of 18, the queen, ac- 

 cording to the then exifling cuftom, granted him a licence 

 to travel abroad ; and he firft vifited Paris, where he was 

 introduced, by his maternal uncle, the earl of Leicefter, 

 to fir Francis Walfingham, the Englilh ambafiador. Charles 

 IX. who was then king of France, wifhing to fiiew refpe£k 

 to Leicefter, and probably with the perfidious defign of 

 lulling into fecurity the Proteftant party in France, pre- 

 vioufly to the horrid maffacre of St. Bartholomew's, ap- 

 pointed Sidney one of the gentlemen of his bed-chamber. 

 When the fatal day arrived, Sidney, together with feveral 

 of his countrymen, found a refuge in the houfe of the 

 Englifh ambalTador. Soon afterwards he purfued his tour 

 to Germany ; and at Frankfort formed an intimate acquaint- 

 ance and friendOiip with Hubert Languet, then refident for 

 the eleflor of Saxony, whofe communications were fingu- 

 larly ufeful to our young traveller. After vifiting Vienna, 

 Hungary, Venice, and Padua, in company with his friend 

 Languet, he returned through Germany and Flanders, and 

 arrived in England in 1575, with thole acconiplifhments, 

 and with his moral principles in untainted purity, which 

 rendered him the admiration and delight of his countrymen. 

 In the following year, being only in the 2 2d year of his 

 age, he was difpatched as ambaffador to tlie court of Vienna, 

 to condole with and congratulate the new emperor Ro- 

 dolph II. ; and entrufted with a commiffion to engage the 

 Proteftant princes of Germany in a league with each other, 

 or with England. He was alfo entrufted to demand the 

 repayment of the funi advanced by Elizabeth to the elector 

 palatine. In the difcharge of tiiefe feveral trufts, he ac- 

 quitted himfelf with, fiiigular reputation, and with fatisfac- 

 tion to all the parties concerned in the objefts of his embalTy. 

 After his return, he received no other honorary recompence 

 befides the office of cup-bearer to the queen. With a tem- 

 per fomewhat irafcible, and a high fenfe of honour, blended 

 in fome degree with the fpirit of chivalry, few charafter* 

 in that age were lo unexceptionable as that of Sidney. Of 

 his difinterefted patriotifm, we have a ftriking inilance in hi$ 

 remonftrance addrefted to queen EUzabeth on her projedled 

 marriage with the duke of Anjou ; and fuch was the efti- 

 mation in which he was held by the queen, that (lie did not 

 manifeil her difplealure againii Sidney, though others fuf- 



fered 



