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He likewise communicated several papers to the Ephem. Nat. 
Curios. 
SEBA'CEOUS, adj. [ sebaceus , Lat.] Made of tallow; 
belonging to tallow. Coles writes it sebacean. Diet. 
1685. 
SEBACEOUS GLANDS, in Anatomy, small glandular 
bodies in the skin, secreting the unctuous matter which 
covers the surface of the body. They are particularly mani¬ 
fest about the alae of the nose, and in the folds of the exter¬ 
nal ear. 
SEBACIC ACID. See Chemistry, pp. 361, 364. 
SEBiEA, a name given by Dr. Brown, in honour of 
Albert Seba, to a genus of plants that he formed out of the 
Exacum Albius, aureum and cordatum of Linnaeus, and 
the rorarium discovered by Labilliardiere. 
SEBAIA, a village of Hedsjas, in Arabia; 33 miles south 
of Medina. 
SEBAKET BARDOIL, or The Lake of King Bald¬ 
win, a narrow lake on the coast of Egypt, 15 miles long, 
near the Mediterranean and the borders of Syria; 2 miles 
east of Catieh. 
SEBALA, a village of Hedsjas, in Arabia; 27 miles south 
of Medina. 
SEBANZARRO, a village of Abyssiuia; 80 miles east- 
north-east of Axum. 
SEBAR, s. [Arabic.] The wood of aloes. 
SEBARIMA, a small river of Guiana, which runs towards 
the north, and enters the Orinoco, at its great mouth called 
De Navios. 
SEBASTE, a village of Palestine, now nearly deserted, 
about two leagues to the north of Napolose. It is remarkabe 
as being the site of the ancient Samaria. 
SEBASTIAN, a town of Mexico, in the intendancy of 
Sonora, situated on the skirt of a mountainous ridge 4 It is of 
a hot temperature, and the surrounding territory abounds in 
maize and French beans; but the principal commerce of its 
inhabitants is in its fisheries, which are carried on to a great 
extent on the river Mazatlan. The inhabitants are numerous, 
consisting of mulattoes, mestizoes, and Indians. Lat. 24. N. 
long. 106. W. 
SEBASTIAN, a river of the New Kingdom of Granada, 
in the province of Santa Martha, which runs north, and 
enters the swamp of Santa Martha. 
SEBASTIAN, St., a considerable town of the north-east 
of Spain, the capital of the district of Guipuscoa, in the pro¬ 
vince of Biscay. It stands on a bay between two small inlets, 
forming a peninsula at the mouth of the small river Urumea. 
Being at the distauce of only ten miles from the mouth of the 
Biaassoa, the boundary of France and Spain, it has long been 
a frontier fortress of considerable strength. The town is for¬ 
tified with bastions and half-moons; the citadel stands on a 
conical eminence, accessible only by a path winding round 
it in a spiral form. The harbour is small, and capable of 
containing only about thirty merchantmen; but it is per¬ 
fectly secure, being nearly inclosed by the two moles, and 
protected from the winds by the adjacent eminences. St. 
Sebastian is better built than most Spanish towns, the streets 
being wide, straight, and well paved; the houses also are in 
general good. Here are three churches, five convents, an 
hospital, and about 12,000 inhabitants. The trade of the 
place is partly with the colonial possessions of Spain, and 
partly with the rest of Europe, to which it exports ships’ 
anchors, cables, and leather, all manufactured in the town, 
and from materials supplied by the adjacent country. The 
environs of St. Sebastian are pleasant; the view comprising 
both the sea and the Pyrenees. The principal walk is in a 
delightful vale, a little to the north of the town. St. Sebas¬ 
tian has been repeatedly taken by the French; it fell into 
their hands in the short war of 1719, in the revolutionary 
contest of 1794, and in Buonaparte’s invasion in 1808. On 
the last occasion it remained five years in their possession ; 
and when the victory at Vittoria, by the British (21st June 
1813), opened a prospect of its recapture, the French had 
time to throw into it a garrison capable of making a very 
obstinate defence. An attempt on the part of the British to 
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take it by assault on the 25th July, was repulsed with heavy 
loss. It became necessary to make approaches with great 
caution, and even to incur a severe sacrifice of lives in the 
final attack, on 31st August, when it fell into the hands of 
the British. In this dreadful conflict a fire burst out in the 
town, which, joined to the preceding bombardment, laidit 
almost entirely in ashes. It was afterwards rebuilt; 8 miles 
west of Fontarabia, and 40 east of Bilboa. Lat. 43. 10 30 
N. long. 1. 58. 30. E. 
SEBASTIAN, St., a sea-port, and capital of the island of 
Gomera, one of the Canaries. It is an agreeable little town, 
in a plentiful country, with a very good harbour. 
SEBASTIAN, St., a settlement of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of San Luis de Potosi, containing 166 families of 
Indians.—There are many other settlements of the same 
name scattered through Spanish America, most of them 
inconsiderable, and not requiring particular notice. 
SEBASTIAN, St., an island in the Atlantic ocean,sepa¬ 
rated from the coast of Brazil by a strait about 3 leagues 
wide. Lat. 23. 45. S. This island has the reputation of 
producing the best sugar, rum and pulse, as well as the 
finest cattle in all Brazil; and these advantages, joined to its 
convenient situation, must render a plantation upon it highly 
valuable. It is situated on a low track of ground about 300 
yards from the beach. The inhabitants, amounting to 2000 
or 3000, are an indigent and not very industrious people; 
they subsist chiefly on fish. There are some inconsiderable 
plantations in the neighbourhood, where a little indigo is 
made, and some tolerably good tobacco is grown. This 
town is noted (and formerly was much more so) for its very 
large canoes scooped out of the solid timber; some of them 
were of almost incredible dimensions. This place is by 
no means a desirable, or indeed a tolerable residence for 
a stranger ; it is exposed to all the inconveniences peculiar 
to low and sandy situations; the hot unwholesome weather, 
seldom refreshed by a breeze, tends to multiply the im¬ 
mense swarms of mosquitos, which constitute one of the 
plagues of the torrid zone. 
SEBASTIAN, St., a town of Brazil, on the shore oppo¬ 
site to the above island. 
SEBASTIAN, S r., de los Reyes, a city of the Ca- 
raccas, in the province of Venezuela, situated on the shore of 
the river Guarico. The city was founded towards the end 
of the 16th century. Its situation is pleasant, but it is ren¬ 
dered rather disagreeable for a place of residence, by the very 
great heats which the continual and strong breezes from the 
north-east but faintly temper. The water is abundant. 
There is, besides the parish church, an insignificant hospital. 
The soil of its jurisdiction, fit for many commodities, pro¬ 
duce scarcely any thing but maize, very hltle else being 
planted. Its pastures feed large herds, which the inhabitants 
prefer to the products of the field. Population 3500; 28 
leagues south ~ south-west of Caraccas. Lat. 9. 54. N. 
SEBASTIAN, San, de Buenavista, a town of New 
Granada ; 140 miles south-south-west of Carthagena, at the 
entrance of the gulf of Darien. It was formerly of much im¬ 
portance, but it is now decayed. 
SEBASTIAN'S SOUND, St., an inlet in the straits of 
Magellan, on the coast of Terra del Fuego; 48 miles south 
of Sweepstakes Foreland. 
SEBASTIANO, St., a small town in the north-west of 
Italy, in Piedmont, district of Turin. It is situated on an 
eminence near the Po, opposite to Chivaso. Population 
1600. 
SEBASTIANO, St., a village of Italy, near Naples, with 
nearly 1000 inhabitants. 
SEBASTIANSBERG, a small town in the north of Bo¬ 
hemia, on the borders of Saxony; 58 miles west-north-west 
of Prague. 
SEBASTIANO, St., a town of Brazil, in the government 
of Para: 60 miles west of Pauxis. 
SEBASTIAO, St., a river of Brazil, which runs into the 
Atlantic. Lat. 23. 40. N. 
SEBASTICOOK, a river of the United States, in Maine, 
which rises near the Piscatiquis, and flows into the Kenne- 
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