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can penetrate without a guide. The general aspect, the 
crowded population, and the confused hum issuing from its 
precincts, give it the appearance of a bee-hive. The territory 
is supposed able to furnish about 1500 men in a condition 
to bear arms. The government is aristocratic, and very 
turbuleut. It was originally vested in twelve sheiks, who 
administered public affairs in rotation ; but twenty others of 
the principal citizens have now forced their way into power. 
The public council is held close to the town wall; but 
differences often occur, when recourse is speedily had to 
arms. The people are described as forward and insolent, 
and so thievishly inclined as to require strict precaution from 
the traveller to place his goods in security. Siwah, however, 
in consequence of its situation on the great caravan route, 
is the theatre of a considerable trade; and a number of the 
inhabitants are employed in the conveyance of goods 
between Egypt and Fezzan. Siwah is particularly remarkable 
as occupying probably the site of the temple of Jupiter 
Ammon, the most celebrated oracle of antiquity, and to 
reach which Alexander braved so many dangers. The fertile 
territory, surrounded by an extensive desert, and the cata¬ 
combs found in the neighbouring mountains, strongly 
confirm this opinion. Accordingly, a few miles to the 
westward, there occurs a remarkable mass of ruins, called by 
the natives Ummebeda. They are in such a state of 
dilapidation as to render it difficult to discover the original 
purpose for which the structure was destined. There are 
evident remains of a very strong interior wall, about 340 
yards in circumference, in the centre of which are found the 
ruins of what appears to have been the principal edifice. It 
is about 27 feet in height, 24 in width, and 10 or 12 paces 
in length. The walls are six feet thick, constructed, par¬ 
ticularly in the roof, of very large blocks of stone, cement¬ 
ed with small stones and lime. The interior is decorated 
with hieroglyphics, and appears to have been partly painted. 
These concurring accounts of travellers appear to leave little 
doubt that the present structure formed a part at least of 
the celebrated shrine above alluded to. Lat. 29. 10. N. long. 
26. 35. E. 
SIWALON, a rock in the Eastern seas, near the north 
coast of Java. Lat. 6. 36. S. long. 110. 49. E. 
SIX, adj. [pyx. Sax., sex, Su. Goth., sai/is, M. Goth., 
■shesh, Persian.]" Twice three; one more than five.—No in¬ 
cident in the piece or play but must carry on the main de¬ 
sign ; all things else are like six fingers to the hand, when 
Nature can do her work with five. Dryden. 
SIX, s. The number six.—That of six hath many re¬ 
spects in it, not only for the days of the creation, but its 
natural consideration, as being a perfect number. Brown. 
Six and seven. To be at six and seven, is to be in a 
state of disorder and confusion. A ludicrous expression, 
that has been long in use. 
All is uneven. 
And every thing is left at six and seven. ShaJcspeare. 
In 1588, there sat in the see of Rome a fierce thundering 
friar, that would set all at six and seven, or at six and five, 
if you allude to his name. Bacon. 
What blinder bargain e’er was driven, 
Or wager laid at six and seven. Hudibras. 
John once turned his mother out of doors, to his great sur- 
row; for his affairs went on at sixes and sevens. Arbuth- 
not. 
SIX HILLS, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 5 
■miles east-by-south of Market Raisin. 
SIX ISLANDS, small islands in the Eastern seas, near 
the north coast of Java. Lat. 6. 36. S. long. 110.49. £. 
SIX MEN’S BAY, a bay on the north-west coast of the 
island of Barbadoes. 
SIX MEN FORT, a fort of the island of Barbadoes; 1 
mile north of Speight’s Town. 
SIX MILE BRIDGE, a small village of Ireland, in the 
county of Limerick, pleasantly situated on the river Maig ; 
102 miles south-west of Dublin.' 
SIX MILE BRIDGE, a village of Ireland, in the county 
259 
of Clare, situated on the river Gearn, which empties itself 
into the Shannon ; 8 miles south-west of Limerick, and 103 
west-south-west of Dublin. 
SIX MILE WATER, a river of Ireland, which runs into 
Lough Neagh, at Antrim. 
SIX NATIONS, a conlederacy of American Indians, so 
called by the British and Americans, and by the French 
Iroquois. They are Mohawks, Oneidas. Onondagas, Senecas, 
Cayugas, and Tuscarawas. A great part of them have 
removed to Canada ; and in 1796, the whole amounted only 
to 4508. In 1796, a society of Quakers raised a fund 
towards promoting the civilisation and comforts of these 
poor people. 
SIXAIN, Sixth, or Sexagena, in War, an ancient order 
of battle, in which six battalions being ranged in one line, 
the second and fifth were made to advance, to form the van¬ 
guard ; the first and sixth to retire, to form the rear guard; 
the third and fourth remaining on the spot, to torm the corps, 
or body of the battle. 
SIX-CLERKS, officers in chancery of great account, 
next in degree below the twelve masters; whose business is 
to enrol commissions, pardons, patents, warrants, &c., which 
pass the great seal, and to transact and file all proceedings 
by bill, answer, &c. 
SI'XFOLD, adj. [pyx-pealb, Sax.] Six times told. 
SIXFOURS, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Var. Population 2500. It is built on a 
hill, and has, at some distance, a harbour called St. Senary; 
9 miles south-west of Toulon. Lat. 43. 6. 10. N. long. 5. 
50. 32. E. 
SI'XPENCE, s. A coin; half a shilling. 
The wisest man might blush. 
If D— lov’d sixpence more than he. Pope. 
SI'XPENNY, adj. Worth sixpence.—Slave, dost thou 
think I am a sixpenny jug Preston. 
SIXSCO'RE, adj. Six times twenty.— Sixscore and five 
miles it containeth in circuit. Sandys. 
SI'XTEEN, adj. [pixcyne, Saxon.] Six and ten. 
SIXTEEN TOWNS, in Hungary. SeeZyps. 
SI'XTEENTH, adj. [] lxceoSa, Saxon.] The sixth after 
the tenth ; the ordinal of sixteen. 
SIXTH, adj. [pixca, Saxon.] The first after the fifth ; the 
ordinal of six. 
SIXTH, s. A sixth part.—Only the other half would 
have been a tolerable seat for rational creatures, and five- 
sixths of the whole globe would have been rendered useless. 
Cheyne. 
SIXTHLY, adv. In the sixth place.— Sixthly, living 
creatures have more diversity of organs than plants. Bacon. 
SIXTIETH, adj. [pixceogoba, Saxon.] The tenth six 
times repeated ; the ordinal of sixty.—Let the appearing 
circle of the fire be three foot diameter, and the time of one 
entire circulation of it be the sixtieth part of a minute, in a 
whole day there will be but 86400 such parts. Digby. 
SIXTUS IV., Pope, who assumed the name of Sixtus, in¬ 
stead of Francis della Rovere, was descended from a family 
of the same name in Savona, in the state of Genoa. He was 
bom in 1414, and at an early age entered into the Francis¬ 
can order. He studied in the universities of Pavia and Bo¬ 
logna, and having taken tha degrees of doctor of philoso¬ 
phy and theology, he gave public lectures in several of the 
principal cities of Italy, and acquired great reputation for 
learning. Having passed through some honourable offices 
in his order, he was at length raised to the head of it as ge¬ 
neral ; and becoming known to Cardinal Bessarion, through 
his reeomendation, and that of Cardinal Gonzaga, he was 
promoted by pope Paul II., in 1467, to the purple, by the 
title of St. Peter ad Vincula. On the death of the pope, in 
1471, he was raised to the pontifical chair; but on his 
coronation a tumult was excited that had nearly proved fatal 
to him. Escaping from the hands of the mob, he attempted 
to form a league among the Christian princes against the 
Turks, who had made themselves masters of Bosnia, Istria, 
and great part of Dalmatia, and threatened Italy. With 
