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situated on the east side of the city, on a spot of ground con • 
siderably elevated, and commanding a delightful prospect. 
It was incorporated in 1794, and is a very respectable and 
flourishing seminary. The buildings of the college consist 
of two brick edifices, each 200 feet in length, and four stories 
high, having two wings, each extending 156 feet. The college 
is richly endowed, and it is in contemplation to extend the 
buildings. Population of the township, 5909. 
SCHENK, Gros, a district of Transylvania, in the pro¬ 
vince of the Saxons, lying to the north of the river Aluti, 
between the districts of Reps and Leschkirchen. It contains 
about 240 square miles, with 16,000 inhabitants. It is hilly, 
but produces corn, hemp, flax, and wine. It has also good 
pasturage. 
SCHENK, Gros, or Nagy-Sink, a small town of Tran¬ 
sylvania, and the chief place of the district; 18 miles east- 
north-east of Hermannstadt. 
SCHENKAFELD, a market town of the Austrian states, 
in the quarter of the Lower Muhl; 3 miles west-north-west 
of Freistadt. 
SCHENKENSCHANS, a fortress of the Netherlands, in 
the province of Gelderland, situated on the island of Gra- 
venwood, in the Rhine. It was founded in 1586 by a 
Dutch magistrate of the name of Schenk, but is now in 
ruins. 
SCHENKENZELL, a small town of the west of Ger¬ 
many, in Baden ; 22 miles south-east of Offenburg. Popu¬ 
lation 1000. 
SCHENKLENGSFELD, a small town of Germany, in 
Hesse-Cassel; 38 miles south-east of Cassel. Population 
900. 
SCHENKURSK, a small town of European Russia, in the 
government of Archangel, on the river Vaga; 140 miles 
south-south-east of Archangel. 
SCHENUS, in Ancient Geography, a gulf of Asia Minor, 
upon the coast of Caria, between those of Thymnias and 
Bubessius, according to Mela, who places here the town of 
Hyla. 
SCHEPPACH, a village of Bavaria, in the circle of the 
Upper Danube, district of Burgau. Population 900. 
SCHEPPENSTEDT, a small town of the north of Ger¬ 
many, in the duchy of Brunswick. It is neatly built, and 
has 2100 inhabitants; 10 miles east of Wolfenbuttel. 
SCHERBRO. See Sherbro. 
SCHERDJE, a village of Yemen, in Arabia; 40 miles 
north of Mocha. 
SCHERENBERG, a small town of Upper Saxony; 3 miles 
south-west of Sonderhausen, and 16 east-north-east of Muhl- 
hausen. 
SCHERM, in Navigation, a kind of light boat used in 
Egypt, with a lateen-sail, which, being without decks, is 
very dangerous. A sudden gust of wind throws this boat 
on its side and sinks it. The Bogaz, or Bogass, as the bar 
at the mouth of the Nile is called, is to boats of this kind 
a formidable shoal. 
Scherm signifies, says Savary, the velocity with which 
the boats cut the water. The sailors of Provence, who are 
the principal navigators in France, have corrupted this word 
into Germ. 
SCHERPENHEUVEL, a small but regularly built town 
of the Netherlands, in South Brabant, with 1700 inhabitants. 
It is noted for a miraculous image of the virgin, to which fre¬ 
quent pilgrimages are made; 15 miles east-north-east of 
Louvain. 
SCHERPENZEEL, an inland village of the Netherlands, 
in Gelderland, with 900 inhabitants. 
SCHERSTEN1KOVA, a village of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic 
Russia, on the Lena; 24 miles south of Orlenga, 
SCHERWEINER, a large village in the east of France, 
in the department of the Lower Rhine. Population 
2200. 
SCHE'SIS, s. Gr.] An habitude; state of any 
thing with respect to other things.-—If that mind which has 
existing in itself from all eternity all the simple essences of 
things, and consequently all their possible sc/ieses or 
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habitudes, should ever change, there would arise a n ewschesis 
in the mind, which is contrary to the supposition. Norris. 
SCHESKEJEV, a small town in the interior of European 
Russia, in the government of Pensa, on a river of the same 
name. Population 1800 ; 26 miles west of Saransk. 
SCHESSLITZ, a small town of Bavarian Franconia; 8 
miles north-east of Bamberg. Population 1000. 
SEHESTAKOV, a small town in the north-east of Euro¬ 
pean Russia, in the government of Viatka, with 1200 in¬ 
habitants. There are in the vicinity considerable iron mines; 
also the ruins of an ancient town; 35 miles north-by-west of 
Viatka. 
SCHETES, was formerly a term for usury; and the 
commons prayed that order might be taken against this hor¬ 
rible vice, practised by the clergy as well as the laity. Rot. 
Pari. 14 Ric. II. 
SCHETIC Diseases, a term used by old writers in 
medicine to express such diseases as were not deeply rooted 
in the constitution, but might be easily removed. 
SCHEUCHZERIA [so named by Linnaeus, in memory 
of two brothers, John James, professor of mathematics, at 
Zurich, author of “ Itinera Alpina;” and John Scheuchzer, 
professor of physics, at Zurich, author of a famous treatise 
on “Grasses,”], in Botany, a genus of the class hexandria, 
order trigynia, natural order of tripetaloideae, junci (Juss.) 
—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth six-parted; leaflets 
oblong, acute, reflex-spreading, rude, permanent. Corolla 
none. Stamina: filaments six, capillary very short, flaccid. 
Anthers erect, obtuse, very long, compressed. Pistil: germs 
three, ovate, compressed, size of the calyx. Styles none. 
Stigmas oblong, blunt at top, fastened outwardly to the germ. 
Pericarp: capsules as many as there are germs, roundish, 
compressed, inflated, reflex-distant, two-valved. Seeds soli¬ 
tary, oblong.— Essential Character. Calyx six-parted. 
Corolla none. Styles none. Capsule three, inflated, one- 
seeded. 
Scheuchzeria palustris.—Root perennial, creeping, jointed. 
Stem upright, a span high, round. Root-leaves few: stem- 
leaves two. Flowers from each axil of the floral leaves soli¬ 
tary, on upright peduncles, of a yellowish-green colour. 
Germs commonly three, but frequently four or five in a 
flower.—Native of Lapland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, 
Switzerland, Prussia, Dauphine, Siberia, in marshes. 
SCHEVELING, or Schf.veningen, a large maritime 
village of the Netherlands, in South Holland, to the north¬ 
west of the Hague, and communicating with that city by a 
beautiful avenue of two miles in length, perfectly straight, 
and planted on each side with rows of oaks and limes. The 
village, whose population amounts to 2900, is protected from 
the sea by natural downs; but, in 1574, upwards of 100 
houses were carried away by a high flood. Its inhabitants 
are for the most part fishermen, and remarkable for their 
attachment to the house of Orange. 
SCHIACHA, a fruitful valley in the territory of Tripoli, 
in Africa, on the road from Siwah to Augila. 
SCHIAVONI (Andrea), called Medula, was born in 1522, 
at Sebenico, in Dalmatia. As his parents were in a low 
station of life, they were not able to forward the inclination 
he exhibited at an early age for the art of design; but 
engaged him to a painter of houses at Venice, where, at his 
leisure hours, he employed himself in studying such prints 
from Parmigiano and other painters as his scanty means 
enabled him to procure. The works of Giorgione and 
Titian in the public buildings of the city, were to him 
delightful sources of recreation; and with these aids, and 
determined industry and perseverance, he cultivated his 
talents in retirement. At length some of his productions 
were seen by Titian, who being informed of his unfortunate 
situation, and pleased with his taste, took him under his own 
care, and soon afterwards employed him, with Tintoretto 
and others, in those grand works he had undertaken for the 
library of St. Marco. He had here a fair opportunity of 
displaying his power, and three entire cielings are shewn as 
the work of Schiavoni. His improvement was sufficiently 
great to encourage him to enter the lists against Tintoretto ; 
