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SOTA DE PALANA, a town of the island of Cuba; 100 
miles south-west of Havannah. 
SOTBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 5 miles 
east of Wragby. 
SOTCHEOU, a city of China, of the second rank, m 
Chan-si, bordering immediately on Chinese Tartary. Lat. 
39. 38. N. long. 98. 44. E. 
SOTCHEOU, a town of Corea; 403 miles east of 
Peking 
SOTER, a small town in Sweden, in the province of Da- 
lecarlia. Near it is an old and productive iron mine. 
SOTERIA, [formed from o-arojp, Saviour,] in Antiquity, 
sacrifices offered to the' gods, in gratitude for their having de¬ 
livered a person from danger. 
The term is also applied to poetical pieces composed for 
the same end. 
SOTHERTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4 miles 
east-north-east of Halesworth. 
SOTRAN, a village of Yemen, in Arabia; 44 miles south- 
south-west of Saade. 
SOTTEGHEM, an inland town of the Netherlands, in 
East Flanders, with 1700 inhabitants; 9 miles east of Au- 
dcnsrdG 
SOTTERLY, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 5 miles 
south-south-east of Beccles. 
SO'TTISII, adj. Dull; stupid; senseless; infatuate; 
doltish. 
All’s but nought: 
Patience is sottish , and impatience does 
Become a dog that’s mad. Shakspeare. 
Dull with intemperance. 
SO'TTISHLY, adv. Stupidly; dully; senselessly.— 
Northumberland, sottishly mad with over-great fortune, pro¬ 
cured the king, by his letters patent under the great seal, to 
appoint the lady Jane to succeed him in the inheritance of 
the crown. Hay-ward. 
SO'TTISHNESS, s. Dullness; stupidity; insensibility. 
—Few consider what a degree of sottishness and confirmed 
ignorance men may sin themselves into. South. —Drunken 
stupidity.—No sober temperate person can look with any 
complacency upon the drunkeness and sottishness of his 
neighbour. South. 
SOTWELL, or Satwell, a parish of England, in Berk- 
-shire ; 2 miles west-north-west of Wallingford. 
SOU AD Y, a small island in the Indian sea, near the coast 
of Ommon, in Arabia. Lat. 24. 14. N. 
SOUKIN. See Suakin. 
SOUALLY, a village of Upper Egypt, on the eastern coast 
of the Nile; 23 miles south of Abu-Girge. 
SOVANA, SUANA, oi - Soana, a small town of Italy, in 
the grand duchy of Tuscany. Its atmosphere is unhealthy. 
It is the see of a bishop; 43 miles north-north-west of 
Rome. 
SOVAR. See Salzburg. 
SOUBANDIE, a small town of Asia Minor, situated on 
a small lake near the river Sikaria; 25 miles south-east 
of Is Nikmid. 
SOUCE, s. See Souse. 
SOUCEYRAC, a town of France, department of the Lot, 
with 1600 inhabitants. 
SOUCIIO'NG, s. A kind of tea. 
SOUDAH, a rocky desert track on the route from Tripoli 
to Fezzan, requiring four days to cross. It yields no water* 
and produces no vegetable of any use. 
SOUDAN, the name given by the Moors of Northern Af¬ 
rica to a vast track of territory in the interior of that continent. 
The term signifies properly the Country of the Negroes, but 
is in great measure restricted to part of it situated on the banks 
of the Niger, being that chiefly with which the Moors main¬ 
tain a commercial intercourse. Their caravans, crossing the 
vast desert which intervenes, carry into Soudan the manufac¬ 
tures of Europe and of the East Indies, and bring in return 
gold, ivory, and slaves. The tracks comprehended under the 
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name of Soudan are among the most imperfectly known of 
any in Africa, or indeed in the globe, and the efforts made by 
Europeans to explore them have been attended hitherto with 
very little success. As the name, however, is not native, and 
is vaguely applied to an indefinite extent of country, the 
measure of information possessed by us respecting Soudan 
will be best given under the general head of Africa, and 
under those ofTombuctoo, Houssa, Cassina,and other regions 
into which it is divided. 
SOUDANG, a village of the island of Celebes, at the 
south end of it, situated at the foot of a mountain bordering 
on Maros river. Saltpetre is procured at this village. 
SOUE SOUA, a small village of the peninsula of Caboce- 
iro, near Mosambique, in Eastern Africa. 
SOVEIB, a village of Irak Arabi, in the Euphrates; 20 
miles north-west of Bassora. 
SOUEICH, a town of France, department of the Upper 
Garonne. Population 1100. 
SOUEKI, a town of China, of the third rank, in Quang- 
tong. 
SOVEL, a small island in the Chinese sea, near the coast 
of Tonquin. 
SO'VENANCE, s. [See Souvenance.] Remembrance 
—To dwell in darkness without sovenance. Spenser. 
SO'VEREIGN, adj. [ souverain , French: sovrano, Ita¬ 
lian, according to which form Milton wrote this word, sovran .] 
—Supreme in power; having no superior. 
You, my sovereign lady. 
Causeless have laid disgraces on my head. Shakspeare : 
None of us who now thy grace implore. 
But held the rank of sovereign queen before, 
Till giddy chance, whose malice never bears 
That mortal bliss should last for length of years. 
Cast us down headlong from our high estate. Dry den. 
Supremely efficacious; predominant over diseases. 
Love wounded Protheus, 
My bosom, as a bed, 
Shall lodge thee, till thy wound be throughly heal’d, 
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss. Shakspeare. 
SO'VEREIGN, 5. Supreme lord. 
O, let my sovereign turn away his face, 
And bid his ears a little while be deaf. Shakspeare. 
SOVEREIGN, a gold coin of 20 s. value, equal to 
the double ryal, which was coined by order ’of Henry 
VII. in the year 1485; and this was accompanied 
by the double sovereign of 40,?. Henry VIII., in 1527, 
added to the gold denominations sovereigns of 225. 6d., and 
ryals of ID. 3d., angels of Is. 6d., and nobles at their old 
value of 6s. 8 d. In 1546 the same prince, after raising the 
value of silver, and making it to gold as 1 to 5, struck sove¬ 
reigns of the former value of 205., and half-sovereigns in 
proportion. Upon the union of the crowns, James I. of Eng¬ 
land gave the sovereign the name of unite, it being then of 
20s. value. The sovereign, which had been commonly 
termed the “ broad-piece,” under the Commonwealth assumed 
the uninvidious name of the twenty-shilling piece, which it 
retained till supplanted by that of the guinea, which was pro¬ 
claimed in 1663, and to pass for 20s. But it never went 
for less than 21s. by tacit and universal consent. Pinkerton’s 
Ess. on Medals. 
This coin has been resumed in the present reign, and 
passes, as we presume all our readers know, for 20s. 
To SO'VEREIGNIZE, v. n. To exercise supreme power. 
—Her royalties were spacious, as sovereignizing over many 
towns and provinces. Sir T. Herbert. 
SOVEREIGNLY, adv. Supremely; in the highest de¬ 
gree. He was sovereignly lovely in himself. Boyle. 
SOVEREIGNTY, s. [ souverainete , French.] Supre¬ 
macy ; highest place; supreme power; highest degree of 
excellence. 
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