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SELICO, or Seluco, a town of western Africa, on the 
northern bank of the Gambia. 
SELIGENSTADT, or Selingstadt, a small town in 
the west of Germany, in Hesse-Darmstadt, on the Maine; 
J7 miles east-south-east of Frankfort. Population 2300. 
SFLIGER, or Seligero, a lake of the interior of Euro¬ 
pean Russia, in the government of Tver. 
SELIM I., a Turkish emperor.— Selim II., also a Turkish 
emperor. See Turkey. 
SELIME, a watering place in the desert to the west of 
Nubia, frequented by the caravans from Cairo to Darfur. 
The water is excellent ; 42 miles south of Sheth. 
SELIMPORE, a town of Bengal, district of Burdwan. 
Lat. 23. 23. N. long. 87. 35. E. 
SELIN, a town of Gallam, in Central Africa; 15 miles 
south of Gallam. 
SELIN'S GROVE, a post village of the United States, 
in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. 
SELING, a city of China, of the second rank, in 
Quangsee. Lat. 21. 55. N. long. 126. 29. E. 
SELINGA. See Selenga. 
SELINO, a small town of European Turkey, on the 
south-west coast of the island of Candia. In the environs 
are raised cotton, olives, and fruit of various kinds. 
SELINTY, a cape of Caramania, in Asia Minor, formed 
by a bold romantic headland, on which are the ruins of the 
ancient Trajanopolis. The hill rises steeply from the plain 
on one side, and breaks off into a chain of magnificent cliffs 
on the other. On the highest point of these are the ruins 
of a castle, which commands the ascent of the hill in every 
direction, and looks perpendicularly down upon the sea. 
The ancient line of fortification is marked by a wall, within 
which there are many remains of houses; while outside of 
them, between the foot of the hill and the river, the remains 
of some large buildings are yet standing. The most re¬ 
markable of these is a low massy edifice, of about 70 feet 
by 50, the top of which is flat, and which appears to have 
been formerly the basement of some splendid superstructure. 
This edifice stands in the centre of a quadrangle, along each 
side of which there was a row of thirty small columns; but 
they have been all broken off close to the ground, and 
carried away. Lower down the river are the remains of a 
small theatre, the seats of which have been all removed. 
Near the mouth of the river are found some baths; and 
fronting the theatre is a long ruined aqueduct on arches, 
which, crossing the river, communicates with a distant hill. 
At the south-east point of the hill are numbers of tombs, 
containing several Greek inscriptions. The coast here is 
marked by petrified gravel, which, at a distance, has the 
appearance of loose stones; but on approaching, proves to 
be a solid crust of pudding stone. The mistake thus pro¬ 
duced may prove dangerous to mariners. The ancient city 
was originally called Selinus, till the time of Trajan, who 
gave his own name to it. 
SELINUM [2e\ivov, Gr. of Theophrastus andDioscorides], 
in Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order digynia, na¬ 
tural order of umbellatae or umbelliferas.—Generic Character. 
Calyx: umbel, universal manifold, spreading, flat: partial 
similar. Involucre universal, many-leaved: leaves lanceo¬ 
late-linear, reflex: partial similar, spreading, length of the 
eorollet. Perianth proper, scarcely observable. Corolla 
universal uniform. Florets all fertile. Proppr of five cor¬ 
date equal petals. Stamina: filaments five, capillary. An¬ 
thers roundish. Pistil: germ inferior. Styles two, reflex. 
Stigmas simple. Pericarp none. Fruit compressed-flat, 
oval-oblong, striated in the middle on both sides, bipartile. 
Seeds two, oval oblong, flat on both sides, striated in the 
middle, with the sides membranaceous. The seeds vary in 
form, and the involucres in number of leaflets .—Essential 
Character. Petal cordate, equal. Involucre reflex. Fruit 
oval-oblong, compressed-flat, striated in the middle. 
1 . Selinum sylvestre, or wild selinum.—Stem even, root 
fusiform, manifold. The herb is a little milky, with numer¬ 
ous even stems. Leaflets linear. Umbel patulous. Umbel- 
lets remote. Seeds oval-oblong, with three raised obtuse 
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approximating grooves. It has both involucres.—‘Native of 
Denmark, Germany, Silesia, France and Piedmont. 
2. Selinum palustre, or marsh selinum.—Stem striated, 
three or four feet high, root almost simple, rays of the umbel 
hispid. The whole plant, when wounded, pours forth a 
milky thick bitter fetid juice.—-Native of the North of 
Europe, Germany, Austria, Dauphine, Piedmont and Eng¬ 
land, in swamps and moors. Known to be indigenous of 
England till very lately. It flowers in July. 
3. Selinum Austriaoum, or Austrian selinum. — Stem 
grooved, universal, involucre many-leaved, leaflets wedge- 
form, gashed. Root perennial, at the beginning of autumn 
pouring out a moderate quantity of yellowish white milk. 
Petals white, equal, cordate. All the flowers are not fertile. 
—Native of Austria, Idria, and perhaps of Dauphine and 
Piedmont. 
4. Selinum Sibericum, or Siberian selinum.—Leaves tri- 
pinnate, universal and partial involucres colourless, nine¬ 
leaved. Root biennial, fusiform. Stem erect, three feet 
high, hollow, striated, glaucous.—Native of Siberia. 
5. Selinum caruifolia, or carraway-leaved selinum.—Stem 
grooved, acute-angled, universal, involucre none, leaflets 
lanceolate, gashed, mucronate at the top. Root perennial. 
—Native of Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and 
Siberia. 
6 . Selinum chabraei.—Stem round, striated, universal, 
involucre none, sheaths of the leaves loose, leaflets filiform- 
linear. Height from eight inches to afoot.—Native of Ger¬ 
many, Austria, France and Italy. , 
7. Selinum seguiera, or fennel-leaved selinum. — Stem 
roundish, striated, four feet high, universal, involucre none, 
leaflets trifid, linear, mucronate. Perennial.—Native of Italy 
and Carniola. 
8 . Selinum monnieri, or annual selinum.—Umbels clus¬ 
tered, universal, involucre reflex, five membranaceous ribs to 
the seed. This has the same structure of the seeds as in la- 
serpitium; but the habit and every thing esle of selinum.— 
Native of the South of France. Annual. 
9. Selinum decipiens.—Stem woody, naked below, lower 
leaves bipinnate, pinnules lanceolate, entire and gashed, 
serrate. 
Propagation and. Culture .—These plants are easily pro¬ 
pagated by seeds, sown in the autumn. The plants are to 
be treated in the same way as Angelica. 
SELINUS, or Selinunte, formerly a celebrated city on 
the south coast of Sicily, at the mouth of the river Heraclea. 
Its ruins are still seen about seven miles south of Castro Ve- 
trano, and are described as of enormous bulk; every column 
resembling a turret, and every fragment of a fallen capital a 
rock. From the traces of the walls, the town appeal's to 
have been built in the form of a horse shoe, and to have had 
a port in the centre; but the latter is now filled up. The 
most conspicuous of the mins are two temples, apparently of 
great extent. A stone of one of them has been lately found 
to measure 21 feet in length, 5 feet 8 inches in height, and 6 
feet 9 inches in breadth. On the west side, the walls are 
still in a considerable degree of perfection; and there are 
two vast flights of steps between the port and the upper 
part of the city. Selinus is said to have been founded B. 
C. 725. 
SE'LION, s. [selio, low Lat.] A ridge of land. Ains¬ 
worth — Obsolete. 
SELIVRIA. See Silivria. 
SELKIRK (Alexander), whose adventures have given 
rise to a well known and highly esteemed romance, was 
born at Largo, in Fifeshire, in Scotland, about the year 1676, 
and was brought up to the sea-service. He left England in 
1703, in the capacity of sailing-master of a small vessel 
called the (Jinque-Ports-Galley, Charles Pickering, captain 5 
and in the month of September, the same year, he sailed from 
Cork in company with another ship of 26 guns, and 120 
men, called the St. George, commanded by Captain Wil¬ 
liam Dampier, intended to cruise against the Spaniards in the 
South sea. On the coast of Brazil, Pickering died, and wt*s 
succeeded in the command by Lieutenant Stradling. They 
proceeded 
