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SCHNEEBERG, a mountain in the north of Bavaria, 
belonging to the Fichtelgebirge range. Its elevation above 
the level of the sea is 3800 feet. 
SCHNEEBERG, a great mountain of Prussia, in Silesia, 
county of Glatz. Elevation 4800 feet. 
SCHNEEGEBIRGE, a mountain chain of Germany, 
which separates Moravia from Silesia and the county of 
Glatz. It is a part of the Riesengebirge; and its highest 
point is the Schneeberg, in the county of Glatz. 
SCHNEEKOPF, the chief mountain of the forest of Thu¬ 
ringia, in Germany, is situated in the duchy of Saxe-Gotha, 
and is 3300 feet above the level of the sea. Lat. 50. 42. 16. 
N. long. 10. 45. 30. E. 
SCHNEEKOPPE, thehighest of the Riesengebirge moun¬ 
tains, in Prussian Silesia; 9 miles south-west of Hirschberg. 
Its elevation is 5070 feet. Lat. 50. 44. 18. N. long. 13. 46. 
35. E. 
SCHNEEN, Great and Little, two large villages of 
Germany, in the south of Hanover; 7 miles south of Got¬ 
tingen, separated by the river Leine. 
SCHNEIDEMUHL, a small town of Prussian Poland, on 
the river Kuddow; 15 miles south-east of Deutsche-Kron, 
and 50 west of Bromberg. Population 2300. Lat. 53. 9. 
10. N. long. 16. 44. 45. E. 
SCHNEIDER (Conrad Victor), a German physician, 
much distinguished by his anatomical researches, was a 
native of Bilterfield, in Misnia. He was professor of ana- 
fomy, botany, and medicine, in the university of Wit- 
temberg, and filled those offices with great reputation. 
He was father of his faculty, when he died in August, 
1680, at the age of 66. He wrote many treatises; those 
on anatomical subjects relating chiefly to the bones of the 
cranium, and to the pituitary membrane of the nostrils, 
to which, indeed, his name is still attached; the Schneiderian 
membrane being the common appellation of this part at the 
present day. He refuted an ancient error which was pre¬ 
valent in his time, that the catarrhal mucus distilled through 
the os cribriforme from the brain ; he demonstrated that no 
such distillation could take place, and that this mucus was 
secreted from the pituitary membrane. His principal works 
were, “ Dissertationes Anatomicse de partibus, quas vocant, 
principalioribus, corde, capite, hepate, cum Observationibus 
ad Anatomiam, necnon ad Artem Medendi pertinentibus,” 
Witteb. 1643. “ Disputationes osteologicse aliquot,” 1649. 
“ De Osse occipitis, ejusdem vitiis ac vulneribus,” 1653. 
“ Disputatio Medica de ossibus temporum,” 1653. “ Liber 
de osse cribriformi, et sensu ac organo odoratus, et morbis ad 
utrumque spectantibus, de coryza, hasmorrhagia narium, 
polypo, sternutatione, amissione odoratus,” 1655. “ De 
Catarrhis Libri quinque,” 1660. “ Liber de Catarrhis 
specialissimus,” 1664. “ Liber de morbis capitis, seu ce- 
phalicis illis, ut vocant, soporosis,” 1669. “ Liberdenova 
gravissimorum trium morborum curatione; de Apoplexia, 
de Lypopsychia, et Paralysi,” Francf. 1672. “ Liber de 
Spasmonum natura et subjecto,” Witt. 1678. The writings 
of Schneider, save those which relate to anatomy, are diffuse 
and obscure, and full of ancient hypothetical doctrines. See 
Eloy. Dirt. Hist. de la Med. 
SCHNEIDHEIM, a village of Bavaria, in the circle of 
the Upper Danube, county of Oettingen, with 1100 inha¬ 
bitants. 
SCHNELLWALD, a large village of Prussian Silesia; 10 
miles south-east of Neisse. Population 1300. 
SCHNEMT, a village of Upper Egypt, on the Nile; 9 
miles north of Benisuef. 
SCHNEPFENTHAL, a petty village of Upper Saxony, in 
the duchy of Saxe-Gotha, remarkable for a large boarding- 
school, erected here on a particular plan. 
SCHNEY, a village of Germany, in Franconia, on the 
Maine. Population 1000. 
SCHNOT-FISH, a name by which some call the hasela, 
or hasler, a fresh-water fish, approaching to the mullet or 
chub kinds, and at some seasons esteemed a very delicate 
dish. 
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SCHNOZENBACH, a large village of Germany, in Ba¬ 
varian Franconia ; 4 miles west of Schwarzenberg. 
SCHOCKEL, a lofty mountain of Austria, in Styria, near 
Gratz. 
SCHOCKEN, or Skoki, a small town of Prussian Po¬ 
land ; 20 miles'north-north-east of Posen, and 21 north-west 
of Gnesna. Population 1 100. 
SCHODAC, a township of the United States, in Rensse¬ 
laer county, New York, on the east side of the Hudson; 9 
miles south of Albany. Population 3166. 
SCHODAC LANDING, a post village of the United 
States, in Columbia county, New York. 
SCHCENANTHUS [from ayoivoq, a rush, wad. oniQoq a 
Jlowcr], in Botany, a synonym of the Juncus odoratus, or 
Camel’s hay. 
SCHOENAS, among the ancients, a land measure con¬ 
taining two parasangs, or sixty stadia, according to Herodo¬ 
tus, which make seven and a half of our miles. But Pliny 
computes it at five miles, or fifty stadia. 
SCHOENBRUNN, or Beautiful Spring, a Moravian 
settlement of the United States, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, 
on the Muskingum, 3 miles below New Philadelphia. 
SCHOENECK, a small town of Saxony, in the Vogtland; 
8 miles east of Oelsnitz, and 70 west-south-west of Dresden. 
Population 1000. 
SCHOENECK, a small town of West Prussia, on the river 
Fers; 23 miles south of Dantzic. Population 1600. 
SCHOENINGEN, a smalltown of the north of Germany, 
in the duchy of Brunswick, and the chief place of a large 
district, comprising the north-east part of the duchy of Wol- 
fenbuttel. It contains 3000 inhabitants, and a salt spring, 
which produces about 500 tons of salt annually; 18 miles 
north of Halberstadt. 
SCHGZNION, in Ancient Music, a nome or air for 
flutes. 
SCHNCENOBATES [a-%o ivo^oct^;, formed from a-yoivoq, 
a rope, and /3 ouva, I walk'], a name which the ancient 
Greeks gave to their rope-dancers, by the Romans called 
funambuli. 
The schoenobates were slaves, whose masters made 
money of them by entertaining the people with their 
feats of activity. Mercurialis, de Arte Gymnastica, lib. iii., 
gives us five figures of schoenobates, engraven after ancient 
stones. 
SCHOENNIS. See Schannis. 
SCHOENSEE, a small town of Germany, in Bavaria; 
36 miles north-north-east of Ratisbon. Population 1000. 
SCHOENUS [^Lyjjivoq of Dioscorides. From ayoivoq, funis, 
a rope : to making which this plant is adapted : lrom cryeiv, 
retinere], in Botany, a genus of the class triandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of calamariae, cyperoidese (Juss ) 
—Generic Character. Calyx: glumes chaffy, one-valved, 
heaped. Corollanone. Stamina: filaments three, capillary. 
Anthers oblong, erect. Pistil: germ ovate-three-sided, ob¬ 
tuse. Style bristle-shaped, length of the corolla. Stigma 
bifid or trifid, slender. Pericarp none. Seed single, 
roundish, among the glumes. There are some species in 
which a few very small bristles springing from the proper 
receptacle surround the seed .—Essential Character. 
Glumes chaffy (one-valved), heaped, the outer ones barren. 
Corolla none. Seed one, roundish among the glumes. 
I.—With a round culm. 
1. Schoenus mariscus, or prickly or long-rooted bog- 
rush.—Root perennial. Culm three or four feet high, round, 
leafy, branched at the top. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sheath¬ 
ing at the base, very sharply serrulate along the edge and keel, 
Flowers ferruginous, in terminating and lateral corymbs, 
with sheathing alternate bractes. Glumes ovate-acuminate. 
—Native of Europe and Africa, in fens and ditches. 
2. Schoenus junceus, or rushy bog-rush.—Culm round, 
almost naked, umbel sessile, lateral.—Native of Guinea. 
3. Schoenus mucronatus, or dagger-pointed or clustered 
bog rush.—Culm round, naked, spikelets ovate, in bundles, 
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