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that year, Seville lost nearly a fourth of its inhabitants, but 
half the sufferers were Gitanos or gypsies, inhabiting the 
suburb of Triana. On the invasion of Spain by Buonaparte in 
] 808, Seville asserted the national independence, and received 
the junta, whendriven from Madrid. It surrendered, however, 
to the French, on 1st February, 1810, and remained in their 
hands till 27th August, 1812, when they were compelled to 
leave it, in consequence, not of insurrection on the part of 
the inhabitants, but of the general evacuation of the south 
of Spain consequent on their defeat at Salamanca ; 254 miles 
south-by-west of Madrid, and 45 north of Cadiz. Lat. 37. 
24. 26. N. long. 5.3S. 37. W. 
SEVILLE PLANTATION, a place on the north coast 
of Jamaica, a little to the west of Mammee bay. Here are 
the ruins of an ancient town called Sevilla Nueva, founded 
by Esquival, on the spot where Columbus resided after his 
shipwreck in 1503. 
SEV1N (Francis), a man of letters, born in the diocese 
of Sens, was educated at Paris, where he pursued, with great 
ardour, the study of the learned languages, in company with 
the abbe Fourmont, the elder. He became an associate of 
the Academy of Belles-Lettres in Paris, in 1714. He was 
sent in 1728, by the king’s command, with the abbe Four¬ 
mont, the younger, to Constantinople, in search of MSS., 
of which he brought back a great number, and was, in 1737, 
presented with the place of keeper of MSS. in the king’s 
library. His letters, descriptive of this journey, were pub¬ 
lished in 1801, in 1vol. 8vo. These contain several inter¬ 
esting details concerning Turkey, Egypt, &c. Sevin died in 
1741. Several of his papers are published in the “ M^moires 
de l’Acad. des Inscriptions.” 
SEVINGTON, a parish of England, in Kent, situated 
near the river Stour; 2 miles from Ashford. 
SEVION, or Seniqn, a small river of Wales, in Flint¬ 
shire, which runs into the Cluyd near Ragland. 
SEVIR, among the Romans, an officer who, according 
to Pitiscus, commanded a whole wing of horse; though 
others make him only the commander of a troop, turmis, a 
division answering to our regiments. 
Sevir i were also magistrates in the colonies, so called, 
from their being six in number. 
SEVOCA'TION, s. [.seeoco.Lat.] The act of calling aside. 
SEVRE NANTA1SE, a small river in the north west of 
France, in the department of the Two Sevres, which falls 
into the Loire near Nantes. It is not navigable. 
SEVRE NOIRTAISE, a river in the north-west of 
France, in the department of the Two Sevres, which falls 
into the sea ; 7 miles west of Marance. 
SEVRES, a small town in the north of France ; 4 miles 
west-bv-south of Paris. Population 2700. Its glass-works 
are in high repute, but are surpassed by its potteries, which 
are supposed to produce the finest porcelain in the world. 
It is remarkable both for the fineness of the materials, 
and for the beauty of the painting; 4 miles west-by-south of 
Paris. 
SEVRES, Department of the Two, a department 
in the north-west of France, comprising about a third of the 
old province of Poitou, and bounded by the departments of 
the Maine and Loire, the Charente, and the Vendee. Its 
superficial extent is 2450 square miles; its population 
260,000, of whom above 32,000 are Protestants. The de¬ 
partment is watered by the Two Sevres, the Dive, the Loire, 
the Thoue, and a number of inferior streams. Its surface 
is uneven, being intersected from north-east to south-west 
by a chain of lofty mountains covered with wood; in the 
south-west it is marshy, but in the rest of the department the 
soil is fertile, and the climate favourable. The products are 
wheat, barley, rye, oats, buck wheat- and maize; hops 
glow wild, particularly in the neighbourhood of Niort. 
Tobacco is partially cultivated ; chesnuts abound in different 
situations; and aimonds in the warmer exposures. The 
tracks of pasture are considerable, the climate being more 
humid than in the interior of France; hence a larger pro¬ 
portion of horses, cattle and sheep. The mines in the high 
SEW 
grounds afford iron, antimony, saltpetre ; here are also 
quarries of marble. The manufactures are on a small scale 
consisting of pottery, saltpetre, leather, woollens, cotton 
and paper. This department suffered severely in the Ven- 
dean war. It is divided into the four arrondissements of 
Niort the capital, Bressuire, Parthenay and Melle. 
SEURRE, a small town in the east of France, department 
of the Cote d’Or, on the Saone. Population 2700. It has 
some trade in corn, wine and fruit; 25 miles south of 
Dijon. 
SEVSK, a small town in the east of European Russia, 
situated near the river Seva and the lake of Moriza, with 
2200 inhabitants; 63 miles south-south-west of Oriel. 
SEVYNVEY, a river of Wales, in Pembrokeshire, which 
runs into the Clethy, near Llanhadon. 
To SEW, v. a. [.suivre , Fr.] To follow; to pursue. 
Sew is the Cornish word for follow. —If me thou deign to 
serve and sew. Spenser .—It was a knight which now her 
sewde. Spenser. 
To SEW, ». v. [smo, Lat.; sye, Su. Goth, and Danish ; 
siiijan, M. Goth.] To join any thing by the use of the 
needle.—A time to rent and a time to sew. Eccl. 
To SEW, v. a. To join by threads drawn with a 
needle.—No man seweth a piece of new cloth on an old 
garment. St. Mark. 
To Sew up. To enclose in any thing sewed.—If ever I 
said loose-bodied gown, sew me up in the skirts of it. 
Shakspeare. 
7b SEW, v. a. To drain a pond for the fish. Ainsworth. 
Obsolete. 
SEW, in Sea Language, the situation of a ship when the 
water first leaves her resting on the ground, or blocks in a 
dock. Thus, if a ship runs a-ground on the tide of ebb, or 
by the reflux of the tide she rests on her blocks; and if it be 
required to know she has sewed, or how much she has sewed, 
the mark the water-line has made on her bottom when afloat 
is examined, and as much as is the difference above the sur¬ 
face of the water and this mark, so much she is said to have 
sewed. 
SEWAD, an extensive district of Afghanistan, situated 
about the 34th degree of northern latitude, and in part 
bounded by the river Indus. This district formerly compre¬ 
hended Bembher and Bijore. It consists of mountains co¬ 
vered with snow, and fertile valleys producing all the finest 
fruits of Europe, particularly grapes. * Sewad proper is about 
70 miles in length, by 40 in breadth, and contains 25 valleys, 
each watered by a separate stream. It is principally inha¬ 
bited by the tribe of Yusufzies, who are a brave and inde¬ 
pendent people, fully capable of defending the strong terri¬ 
tory, and paying little more than a nominal subjection to 
their sovereign; but ready to contribute their quota of troops 
for any plundering expedition, or in the general defence of 
the country. 
SEWALIC, a range of mountains in Hindostan, which 
divide the province of Delhi from Serinagur. The elevation 
is trifling when compared to their northern neighbours the 
Himmalaya mountains. It is, however, through the former 
that the majestic Ganges enters on the plains of Hindostan, 
at a place called Hurd war. These hills rise with a mode- 
ate though unequal slope from the plains, and are skirted by 
deep forests abounding with valuable timber, only,inhabited 
by elephants, but which seldom exceed seven feet in height, 
and are not considered valuable, and therefore only pursued 
for the sake of their teeth, or to prevent their destroying the 
cultivation on the skirts of the mountains. 
SEW AN, called also Aligunge, a town of Hindostan, 
province of Bahar, district of Sarun. It is pleasantly situ¬ 
ated on the eastern side of the Dar, which in the rainy 
season communicates both with the Ganges and Gundock 
rivers. It is celebrated for the manufacture of black 
crockery-ware, made in imitation of that of Staffordshire. 
Lat. 26. 11. N. long. 84. 25. E. 
SEWARD (Thomas), an English divine of the Church 
of England, was born in 1708. He became rector of Eyam, 
in 
