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produce iron, tin, lead, excellent loadstone, and lapis lazuli. 
It has a breed of small but handsome and swift horses, which 
are highly esteemed; and it abounds with the animal that 
produces the musk. Among a variety of other birds is a 
species of hen, with wool like that of sheep, instead of 
feathers. Salt is procured by evaporation, from wells among 
the mountains. This province contains 10 cities of the first 
rank, with 88 of the second and third, besides a great 
number of fortified places. The population was stated to 
■Sir George Staunton at 27 millions. 
SETEEF, a town of Algiers, the ancient Sitipka, once 
the capital of a part of Mauritania, and distinguished by the 
obstinate resistance it made against the Saracens. The old 
city is now in a state of complete ruin, presenting scarcely 
one fragment of the Roman walls, pillars, or cisterns. The 
fountains, which continue to flow very plentifully near the 
centre of the city, are equally delightful and convenient; 50 
miles south-west of Constantina. 
SETEGANTI, a river of South America, in the province 
of Darien, which enters the river Cupe. 
SETENIL, a small town in the south of Spain, in 
Granada, beautifully situated on a rocky eminence; 11 miles 
north of Ronda. 
SETERRA, or Setres, a small sea-port on the Grain 
coast of Africa. 
SE'TFOIL, s. An herb : See Tormentilla. 
SETHIAMS, Sethedians, Sethiani, or Sethiniani, a 
branch of the ancient Gnostics, thus called, because of their 
pretending to deduce their origin from Seth, son of Adam, 
whom they called Jesus and Christ, from an opinion, that 
Seth and Jesus were the same person, who came down from 
heaven at two several times. 
SETHRON, a village of Lower Egypt, on the southern 
bank of the Lake Menzaleh. 
SETIA, or Settia, a small town on the north coast of the 
island of Candia or Crete, situated on a bay of the same 
name, with 4000 inhabitants. It was anciently called 
Cythceum, and is the see of a Greek archbishop; 44 
miles east-south-east of Candia. Lat. 35. 3. N. long. 26. 
3. E. 
SETLE, a village of Turkish Armenia; 30 miles south¬ 
west of Akalzike. 
SETMURTHY, a hamlet of England, above Derwent, in 
Cumberland ; 4 miles east-north-east of Cockermouth. 
SETON, a skein of silk or thread, introduced through a 
part of the flesh by means of a needle, and left there so as to 
keep up a continual discharge of matter, and a degree of 
counter-irritation, with a view of relieving or curing a va¬ 
riety of diseases. 
SETRA-JETA, the name, in Hindoo romance, of the 
father of one of the favourite wives of the popular deity 
Krishna. 
SETSCH, a small town of the east of Bohemia; 9 miles 
west-south-west of Chrudim. 
SETSE, the name of a Chinese tree, called also chitse, 
and much esteemed by the people of that country for its 
beauty and for the goodness of its fruit. In the provinces 
of Cantong and Honan there are whole plains covered with 
these trees, many of which grow to the size of our walnut- 
trees. The fruit ripens every where in the east, where the 
tree grows, but it is of a much more delicious flavour in 
some places than in others. The leaves are of the colour and 
shape of those of the walnut-tree, only that they are more 
round at the ends. The fruit is sometimes round, sometimes 
pointed at one end, sometimes oval, sometimes flat, and not 
unfrequently composed of two pieces, as it were, and resem¬ 
bling two apples, cut and joined together. The rind is 
always green, never changing yellow or red, and the fruit 
keeps its freshness all the winter. They are about the size 
of the orange, the skin is very tender and thin, and the 
fruit has a mixed taste of the sharp and the luscious. It is 
very wholesome and good. 
SETTALA, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the 
Milanese, situated between the river Adda and Milan. 
SETTE, a country or district of Western Africa, in the 
SET 
track of country between Benin and Loango. It is governed 
by a mani, or chief, who pays homage to the king of Loango . 
It is traversed by a river of the same name, on the banks of 
which is a town also of the same name, situated about 160 
miles to the north of Loango. The river falls into the 
Atlantic, in Lat. 2. 15. S. 
SETTE COMMUNI, or The Seven Communes, a 
district of Austrian Italy, situated between the Brenta and the 
Astico, and extending from the neighbourhood of Vicenza 
to the frontier of Tyrol. Its territorial extent is about 100 
square miles, and it consists of lofty mountains and cliffs, 
intersected with narrow and sterile vales. The soil being 
throughout extremely poor, the pasture in the valleys and on 
the sides of the mountains is, with the exception of wood, 
the only valuable product of the district; the chief branch 
is the breeding of cattle, whom in the winter months it is 
necessary, to drive to the low country for food. The inhabit¬ 
ants amount to about 30,000. 
SETTE'E, s. A large long seat with a back to it.—A. 
vessel, very common in the Mediterranean, with one deck, 
and a very long and sharp prow. Chambers. 
SETTEE, in Sea Language, a vessel, very common in 
the Mediterranean, with one deck, and a very long and sharp 
prow. They carry, some two masts, some three, without 
top-masts. They have generally two masts, and are rigged 
and navigated like xebecs or galleys, with settee sails instead 
of lateen sails. The least of them are of sixty tons burden. 
They serve to transport cannon and provisions for ships of 
war, and the like. These vessels are peculiar to the Medi¬ 
terranean sea, and are usually navigated by Italians, Greeks 
or Mahometans. 
SE'TTER, s. One who sets.—When he was gone I cast 
this book away: I could not look upon it but with weeping 
eyes, in remembering him who was the only setter on to do 
it. Aschan. —One who sets forth; a proclaimed—He 
seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods. Acts. —A dog 
who beats the field, and points the bird for the sportsmen. 
—They point, as so many setters at a partridge. After - 
burp .—Whatever sets off, decorates, or recommends.—They 
come as refiners of thy dross; or gilders, setters off, of thy 
graces. Whitlock. —One who adapts words to music. 
Thy soule upon so sweet an organ plays, 
As makes the parts she plays as sound, as sweet, 
Which sounds the heavenly setter's and thy praise. 
Davies. 
SE'TTERWORT, s. An herb; a species of Veratrum. 
■SETTIMO TOR1N, a small town of Piedmont, province 
of Turin, situated on the river Sangal. Population 2300. 
SETTIMO VITTONE, another small town of Piedmont, 
with 1700 inhabitants. 
SETTING, s. Apparent fall of the sun, or other heavenly 
bodies, below the horizon.-—The setting of the pleiades and 
seven stars. Brown. —Enclosure.—Thou shalt set in it set¬ 
tings of stones, even four rows of stones. Exod. —In naval 
language, direction of the current or sea. 
SETTING, in Seamanship. To set the land or the sun, 
by the compass, is to observe how the land bears on any 
point of the compass, or on what point of the compass the 
sun is; likewise the act of observing the situation of any 
distant object by the compass, in order to discover the angle 
which it makes with the nearest meridian : as at seven post 
meridian, we set the tower of Arabia near the port of Alex¬ 
andria, and it bore south-south-east distant four leagues by 
estimation. When two ships sail in sight of one another, to 
mark on what point the chased bears, is termed setting the 
chase by the compass. 
SETTING-DOG, s. A dog taught to find game, and 
point it out to the sportsman.—Will, obliges young heirs 
with a setting-dog he was made himself. Addison. 
SETTLE, a market town of England, in the West Riding 
of Yorkshire, very pleasantly situated on the eastern bank of 
the river Ribble, at the bottom of an almost perpendicular 
rock of limestone, from the top of which is a fine prospect, 
of an extensive vale, bounded on all sides by craggy 
mountains. 
