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(dolichos soja ), and salt, mixed with barley or wheat. 
Thunberg .—Some provinces [of Japan] furnish better soy 
than others; but, exclusively of this, it grows better and 
clearer through age. Its colour is invariably brown, and its 
chief excellence consists in the agreeable salt taste which it 
possesses. Transl. of Thunberg's Travels. 
SOYENNOM INDIANS, Indians of North America, 
on Lewis’ river, west of the Rocky Mountains. Number 
400. 
SOZOMEN (Hermias), an ecclesiastical historian, con¬ 
temporary with Socrates (see his article), was born of re¬ 
spectable parents, as some say at Salamis, in the isle of Cyprus, 
but according to others, at Gaza or Bethelia, in Palestine. 
Having studied the law at Berytus, he practised as an advocate 
at Constantinople, devoting his leisure hours to the compo¬ 
sition of his ecclesiastical history. This work contains in 
nine books, an account of the affairs of the church, from the 
third consulship of Crispus and Constantine Caesars, to the 
17th consulship of Theodosius the emperor, in whose time 
he wrote, and to whom he dedicated his performance; that 
is, from the year 324 to the year 439, or during a period of 
115 years. His history is chargeable with several noto¬ 
rious errors in the relation of facts. He is supposed to 
have died about the year 420. Sozomen’s history is printed 
with that of Socrates, and the other Greek ecclesiastical his¬ 
torians. 
SPA, a town of the Netherlands, province of Liege. It 
is situated on the banks of a rivulet, at the end of a deep 
valley, with meadows and cultivated fields in its immediate 
vicinity, but with high and steep mountains at a short dis¬ 
tance, so that the country around forms a wild and romantic 
landscape. The town is small, having little more than 3000 
inhabitants; and a number of its houses are of wood. Its 
streets, however, four in number, and built in the form of a 
cross, are wide and regular. The adjacent country being 
rugged and unproductive, Spa can boast of little else than its 
far famed medicinal springs and baths. Of the springs, to 
the number in all of six or seven, the principal are called 
respectively the Pouhon, Geronstere, Sauveniere and Ton- 
nelet. The Pouhon rises from the hill to the north of Spa, 
but is made to issue from a fountain in the middle of the 
town ; the others are at a distance of from one to two miles. 
The season commences with the warm weather, and the num¬ 
ber of visitors soon produces a change in the sequestered 
spot. It lasts commonly during four months. The accom¬ 
modations, whether at private lodgings or at hotels, are in 
general good. The habit of early rising, and of riding every 
morning to the more distant springs, is favourable to health. 
The rest of the day is passed either at a public breakfast in 
the new Vauxhall, one of the finest buildings of the kind on 
the continent; on the public walks, or in the chace; for 
the adjacent country, poor in the more useful products, is 
abundant in game. Spa contains a theatre and commodious 
ball-rooms. The public walks are pleasant, although limited 
in extent. The company, composed in a great measure of 
men of rank and property from Germany, France, the Ne¬ 
therlands or England, is superior to the common description 
of visitors at watering places, although mixed occasionally 
with adventurers, who endeavour to reap a harvest from the 
gaming resorted to, to kill time in this vacant and somewhat 
mountainous place. These waters were known to the Ro¬ 
mans, and are mentioned by Pliny. They all spring from 
the adjacent hills, which are formed of calcareous earth, 
mixed with siliceous substances. They are all chalybeates, 
and the Pouhon being impregnated with the largest propor¬ 
tion of iron, is the spring from which the Spa waters are 
bottled for exportation. The effect of these waters is diuretic 
and exhilirating. They are more cooling, and allay thirst 
more effectually, than common water. They are recom¬ 
mended chiefly in cases of relaxation; also in obstructions 
of the liver, and various other disorders. They are of course 
accounted most effectual when drank on the spot. The 
inhabitants of this small place adapt, like those of Tun¬ 
bridge, their manufacturing industry to the taste of their visi¬ 
tors, and employ themselves in makmg boxes of painted and 
varnished wood, with a variety of ornaments and fanciful 
articles. In 1807, the town was visited by a calamitous fire, 
the effects of which it was long in recovering; 20 miles 
south-east of Liege, and 210 north-east of Paris. 
SPAAD, s. [stella terra:, Lat.] A kind of mineral.— 
English talc, of which the coarser sort is called plaister; the 
finer, spaad, earth-flax, or salamander’s hair. Woodward. 
SPACE, s. [spatium, Lat.] Room; local extension.— 
Space is the relation of distance between any two bodies or 
points. Locke. —Oh, undistinguish’d space of woman’s 
wit! Shakspeare. —This which yields or 'fills all space. 
Milton. —Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor 
motion. Locke.—Space and motion can never be actually 
infinite: they have a power only and a capacity of being 
increased without end; so that no space can be assigned so 
vast, but still a larger may be imagined; no motion so swift 
or languid, but a greater velocity or slowness may still be 
conceived. Bentley. —Any quantity of place. 
I would not be the villain that thou think’st 
For the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp, 
And the rich East to boot. Shakspeare. 
There was but two ways to escape; the one through the 
woods about ten miles space to Walpo. Kno/les. —In such 
a great ruin, where the fragments are great and hard, it is not 
possible they should be so adjusted in their fall, but that they 
would lie hollow, and many unfilled spaces would be inter¬ 
cepted amongst them. Burnet. 
Measuring first with careful eyes 
The space his spear could reach, aloud he cries. Dryden. 
Quantity of time.—There is a competent time allowed 
every man, and as it is certain death is the conclusion of it, 
’tis possible some space before death. Hammond. 
Nine times the space that measures day and night 
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew 
Lay vanquish’d, rolling in the fiery gulf. 
Confounded, though immortal. Milton. 
In a lever, the motion can be continued only for so short 
a space, as may be answerable to that little distance betwixt 
the fulcrum and the weight. Wilkins. —God may defer 
his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space 
of repentance: he may stay till the iniquities of a nation be 
full; but sooner or later they have reason to expect his ven¬ 
geance. Tillotson. —The lives of great men cannot be writ 
with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness, within a 
short space after their decease. Addison. —A small time; a 
while. 
Sith for me ye fight, to me this grace 
Both yield, to stay your deadly strife a space. Spenser. 
Compassion quell’d 
His best of man, and gave him up to tears 
A space, till firmer thoughts restrain’d excess. Milton. 
To SPACE, v. n. [spatior, Lat.] To rove; tospatiate. 
But she, as Fayes are wont, in privie place 
Did spend her dayes, and lov’d in forest wyld to space. 
Spenser. 
SPA'CEFUL, adj. Extensive; wide. Not in use. 
The ship, in those profound 
And spacefull seas, so stuck as on drie ground. Sandys. 
SPACHENDORF, a town of Austrian Silesia; 18 miles 
south-west of Troppau, and 29 south-by-east of Olmutz. 
Population 1400. 
SPA'CIOUS, adj. [spacieux, French; spatiosus, Latin.] 
Wide; extensive; roomy; not narrow.—The former build¬ 
ings, which were but mean, contented them not: spacious 
and ample churches they erected throughout every city. 
Hooker. 
Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty ; 
And yet seem cold. Shakspeare. 
Merab with spacious beauty fills the sight. 
But too much awe chastis’d the bold delight. 
Cowley. 
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