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are iiecefTarily compofed : but there have been fome few re- 

 markable aberrations from the ordinary courfe of art, by 

 painters of uncommon talent, which bid defiance to all clalTi- 

 fication, and ftand alone in their refpedive fpheres. Such are 

 thofe of Rubens and Rembrandt, of Tintoretto and Salvator 

 Rofa, compounds of all that elevates and degrades ; in which 

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Sie fliilful difplay of the mailer hand which wielded the ma- 

 terials. Such examples, great though they are, ought not 

 to ferve as cxcufes for inattention to fettled principles. 

 Who (hall fay, that if Rubens had been more correft in 

 form, his works would have been lefs engaging ; or, that 

 if Tintoretto had been more pure and true in expreffion, his 

 produftions would not have been more interefting. (See 

 the article Picture. ) Combinations which will juftify fuch 

 expcftations have been formed, and we have feen them in our 

 own great fir Jofhua's produftions, where fine form, rich and 

 full-toned colour, and juil chiaro-ofcuro, have been blended 

 in fl<ilful and free excution. 



SUCCOWIA, in Botany, in honour of profefTor Suckow, 

 a learned botanift, of Heidelberg.—" Moench. Meth. 265." 

 Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 79. — Clafs and order, 

 TdraiJynamia Siliculofa. Nat. Ord. S'diquofdC, Linn. Crucl- 

 ferti, JulT. 



EIT. Ch. Pouch nearly globular, beaked with the awl- 

 fliaped ftyle ; valves hemifpherical, prickly ; cells fingle-feeded. 

 Cotyledons folded together. 



I. S. lalear'ica. Minorca Succowia. Ait. n. I. (Bu- 

 nias balearica ; Linn. Syft. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 446. Mant. 

 429. Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 2. 68. t. 144.) — Native of 

 Minorca. Given to Kew garden, in 1 78 1, by Dr. Brouf- 

 fonet. A hardy annual, flowering in fummer. ft^m branched, 

 a foot high. Leaves fmooth, elegantly pinnate and lobed. 

 Flowers yellow, racemofe. 



SUFFOLK, col. 6, 1. 13, add— In 1811 Suffolk con- 

 tained 37,227 houfes, befides 155 then unfinifhed, and 

 234,211 perfons ; x'ia. 111,988 males, and 122,223 females: 

 26,406 families being employed in agriculture, and 15,180 

 in trade, manufaftures, or handicraft. 



SUGAR, Chemical Compofifwn of. See FERMENTA- 

 TION'. 



SuGAR-Z,5a/", in Geography, a townlhip of Luzerne county, 

 in Pennfylvania, having 282 inhabitants. 



SULLIVAN, 1. 26, infert — including 43 flaves in 18 10. 

 SULPHUR, in Chemlflry. According to the moft 

 recent determinations, the weight of the atom of fulphur is 

 20, and of fulphuric acid 50 ; from which data the compo- 

 fition of the compounds of this fubftance can be accurately 

 afcertained. See Atomic Theory. 



Sulphur IJland, 1. 8, add— The fulphur is colkaed 

 by a few individuals rcfident on the ifiand folely for that 

 purpofe ; fent to the Great Loo-choo, and thence exported 

 to Japan and China. N. lat. 27° 56'. E. long. 128° 11'. 

 Ellis's Journal of an Embaffy to China. 1818. 



SULPHURETTED Chyazic Acid. See Cya- 



NOGEX. 



SULPHURIC Acid. It is ftated in our article on this 

 fubjed, that fulphuric acid cannot exift without water ; and 

 that the fulphuric acid prepared at Nordhaufen from green 

 vitriol probably differs from common fulphuric acid by con- 

 taining lefs water. The fad is, according to Dr. Thomfon, 

 that the latter, when moft concentrated, contains no water 



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whatever, and confequently a perfedly anhydrous fulphuric 

 acid can exift. 



SULPHURIZED Muriatic Acid, in Chemiflry. The 

 fubftance defcribed under this name in the Cyclopaedia is a 

 chloride of fulphur. See Chlorine. See alfo the original 

 article Sulphur. 



SULTANABAD. For Tarshish r. Turshish. 



SURABHI, col. 2, 1. 44, for profcribe r. prefcribe. 



SURRY, in Virginia, 1. 4, r. 6855. 



SURYA, col. 5, 1. 24, for drawn r. driven. 



SUTTEE, 1. 3 and 4 from bottom, r. thus — out number. 

 As well as meritorious fuffering for religion's fake, fuicide 

 is in fome cafes legal, and even commendable. 



SUTTON, a village and parifti of Surry, in the fecond 

 divifion of Wallington hundred, which in 1 8 1 1 contained 

 121 houfes, and 638 perfons ; viz, 310 males, and 328 

 females. 



SWADHA, 1. 5, for Galaka r. Golaka. 



SWIMMING Bladders of Fijh, Nature of the Air con- 

 tained in. We may introduce here the curious experiments 

 made by Biot on this fubjedl. This gentleman and Mr. 

 Laroche found in general a mixture of azote and oxygen, 

 but no hydrogen or carbonic acid in the fwimming bladders 

 of filh ; the air-bladders of thofe fifti living near the fur- 

 face of the water containing leaft oxygen, and thofe of fifli 

 brought from a gi-eat depth the moft. The following table 

 exhibits the proportion of oxygen in 100 parts of the air in 

 the different filh examined. 



The depth at which thefifhin the preceding table are caught 

 increafes gradually, as well as the proportion of oxygen, 

 from the beginning to the end of the table. The tngla 

 lyra is always caught at a very great depth. M. Laroche 

 found, that fifties taken at a depth greater than 150 feet, fur- 

 niftied at a mean about .70 oxygen, while the mean refult 

 fumiftied by the fifti caught at lefs depths was only .29. 

 The fame law holds with refpeft to frefli-water fifli. M. 

 Biot's experiments were made near the Balearic iflands. 



SYCAMORE, in Geography, a townfliip of Hamiltos 

 county, in Ohio, containing 1552 inhabitants. 



SYMPATHY. See Mental 'Pmi.osopur. 



