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Amount of the different Descriptions of Stock redeemed. 
£. . 
Consolidated 3 per cent annuities 54,912,000 
Reduced 3 per cent, annuities. 62,611,702 
Old and new South Sea annuities ” 
Three per cent annuities 1751 7.53,000 
Consolidated 4 per cent, annuities ^.617,400 
Consolidated 5 per cent, annuities 
Total 127,937,102 
The total sum which has been paid for 
the amount of stock thus bought up was 
79,465,8771. Os. lOd. 
The above statement is exclusive of the 
fund for the reduction of that part of the 
debt of Ireland which has been funded in 
Great Britain, by which 4,628,9261. 3 per 
cent stock had been redeemed ; and like- 
wise of the appropriation for the reduction 
of the Imperial debt, by which, at the above 
period, 829,4261. stock had been redeemed. 
SINNET, on board a ship, a line or 
string made of rope yarn, consisting gene- 
rally of two, six, or nine strings, which are 
divided into three parts, and are platted 
over one another, and then beaten smooth 
and flat with a wooden mallet. Its use is 
to save the ropes, or to keep them from 
galling. 
SINUATED leaf. See Botany. 
SINUS, denotes a cavity of certain 
bones, and other parts, the entrance whereof 
is narrow, and tlie bottom wider and more 
spacious. 
Sinus, in surgery, a little cavity, or sac- 
culus, frequently formed by a wound or 
ulcer, wherein pus is collected. 
SIPHON, or Syphon, in hydraulics, a 
bended pipe, one end of which being put 
into a vessel of liquor, and the other hanging 
out of the said vessel over another, the 
liquor will run out from the first into the last, 
after the air has been sucked out of the 
external or lower end of the siphon, and 
that as long as the liquor in the upper vessel 
is above the upper orifice of the siphon. 
See Hydraulics. 
SIPHONANTHUS, in botany, a genus 
of the Tetrandria Monogynia class and or- 
der. Natural order of Borragineae, Jussieu. 
Essential character; corolla one-petalled, 
funnel-form, very long, inferior ; berries 
four, one-seeded. There are two species, 
viz. S. indica, and S. angustifolia, natives of 
South America. 
SIPHONIA, in botany, a genus of the 
Monoccia Monadelphia class and order. 
Essential character : calyx one-leafed ; co- 
rolla none : male, anthers five, growing be- 
low the top of the column : female, style 
none ; stigmas three ; capsule tricoccoiis ; 
seed one, sometimes two or three. There 
is but one species, viz, S.'elastica, elastic 
gum tree. ' 
SIPUNCULUS, in natural history, tube^ 
worm, a genus of the Vermes Intestina class 
and order. Body round, elongated ; mouth 
cylindrical at the end, and narrower than 
the body ; aperture at the side. There are 
two species, viz. S. nudus ; body covered 
with a close skin, and globular at the lower 
end ; it inhabits European Seas, under stones ; 
and is eight inches long : and S. saccatus ; 
body covered with a loose skin, and rounded 
at the lower end; this is foundinthe Ameri- 
can and Indian Seas ; in shape it is like the 
former, except in being enclosed in a loose 
bag, and in not having the lower end glo- 
bular. 
SIREN, in natural history, a genus of 
Amphibia of the order Reptiles, or of the 
order Meantes an older instituted by 
Linnseus on account of this genus of animals 
alone. Generic character ; body naked, 
with two feet, and without a tail ; feet with 
arms and nails. 
S. lacertina, or the eel-shaped siren, is 
most nearly allied to the lizard tribe, but 
differs from it in having only two feet, and 
those armed with claws ; the body is shaped 
like an eel; its colour is a dark brown, 
speckled with white ; it is often more than 
two feet long, and inhabits the stagnant 
waters of South Carolina, sometimes, how- 
ever, quitting water for the land. This 
curious animal was discovered by the inge- 
nious Dr. Garden; who presented severe 
specimens of it to Linnaeus, and excited the 
attention and curiosity of that great man, on 
this particular subject, to so high a degree 
that he asserted few things would more 
gratify him than a particular knowledge of 
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