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town contains about 500 stone houses, of which more than 
half were destroyed by the French, and still continue in ruins. 
The numerous pilgrims reside entirely in tents, confusedly 
scattered about the town. Suez has no walls; but the 
houses are built so close together, that it can be entered from 
the land side only at one point. This is defended by three 
cannon ; and eight are placed on the side towards to sea; but 
these defences are of no use, unless against the wandering 
Arabs, and could not withstand the attack of 50 regular 
troops for half an hour. Upon the whole, Mr. Turner con¬ 
ceives Suez to be indisputably the most miserable place in 
the Levant, and that only the settled passion for money 
which characterises the Levantines, could induce any man 
to make it his residence. Its trade lies under many disadvan¬ 
tages, particularly from the difficult navigation of this upper 
part of the Red Sea, where vessels can only pass through a 
narrow channel, amid rocks often sunk beneath the surface. 
Danger also arises from the north winds, which blow with 
great violence for nine months in the year. Cosseir, which 
is less liable to these disadvantages, is now, notwithstanding 
the inconvenience of a longer and more difficult land journey 
often preferred for the trade to Egypt. Suez, however, still 
carries on much of the communication of Arabia and India 
with Cairo, and almost the whole of that with Syria and 
Palestine. Frequent caravans come from Gaza, Jaffa, and 
Jerusalem, bringing soap, oil, tobacco, and other goods. 
The staple import consists of coffee, an article of uni¬ 
versal consumption throughout the east. Vessels bring 
also tea, pickled ginger, and a great quantity of tama¬ 
rinds. There are eight considerable mercantile houses in 
Suez, of which six are Greek, and two are French. The 
charges of conveyance by the caravan are moderate. The 
pacha is said to pay very little attention to the accommoda¬ 
tion of pilgrims, and involves them in long delays, which, 
causing the exhaustion of their funds, reduces many to perish 
with hunger.’ Lat.30. 1. N. long. 32. 28. E. 
SUFANGI UL BAHRI, a narrow island in the Red Sea, 
near the coast of Egypt: about 7 miles long. Lat. 27. N. 
long. 33. 56. E. 
SUFFELNIIEIM, a large village of France, in Alsace, 
containing 1600 inhabitants. 
To SU'FFER, v. a. [suffer, old French; to which 
Lacombe assigns the date of the eleventh century ; souffrir, 
modern; suffero, Latin.]—To bear; to undergo; to feel 
with sense of pain.—A woman suffered many things of 
physicians, and spent all she had. St. Mark. 
Obedience impos’d, 
On penalty of death, and suffering death. 
To endure; to support; not to sink under. 
Our spirit and strength entire 
Strongly to suffer and support our pains. 
To allow; to permit; not to hinder. 
He wonder’d that your lordship 
Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shalcspeare. 
To pass through ; to be affected by ; to be acted upon.— 
The air now must suffer change. Milton. 
To SU'FFER, v. ?i. To undergo pain or inconvenience. 
—My breast I arm, to overcome by suffering. Milton .— 
Prudence and good-breeding are in all stations necessary; 
and most young men suffer in the want of them. Locke .— 
To undergo punishment.—The father was first condemned 
to suffer upon a day appointed, and the son afterwards the 
day following. Clarendon. 
He thus 
Was forc’d to suffer for himself and us! 
Heir to his father’s sorrows and his crown. Dry den. 
To be injured.—Public business suffers by private in¬ 
firmities, and kingdoms fall into weaknesses by the diseases 
or decays of those that manage them. Temple. 
SUFFERABLE, adj. [suffrage, old Fr.] Tolerable; 
such as may be endured. 
Thy rages be 
Now no more sufferable. Chapman. 
Voi. XXIII. No. 1599. 
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SU'FFER ABLENESS, 5. Tolerableness. Scott. 
SU'FFERABLY, ad'o. Tolerably; so as to be endured. 
An infant Titan held she in her arms ; 
Yet sufferably bright, the eye might bear 
The ungrown glories of his beamy hair. Addison. 
SUFFERANCE, s. [. souffrance, French.] Pain ; in¬ 
convenience ; misery. 
He must not only die. 
But thy unkindness shall the death draw out 
To ling’ring sufferance. Shakspeare. 
Patience; moderation. , 
He thought t’ have slain her in his fierce despight; 
But, hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise, 
He staid his hand. Spenser. 
Some villains of my court 
Are in consent and sufferance in this. Shakspeare. 
Both gloried to have ’scap’d the Stygian flood. 
As gods, and by their own recover’d strength ; 
Not by the suff' ranee of supernal power. Milton. 
SUFFERER, s. One who endures or undergoes pain or 
inconvenience. 
This evil on the Philistines is fall’n. 
The sufferers then will scarce molest us here. 
From other hands we need not much to fear. Milton. 
One who allows ; one who permits. 
SUFFERING, s. Pain suffered.—Rejoice in my suffer¬ 
ings for you. 
SU'FFERINGLY, adv. With pain. 
To SUFFI'CE, v. 71. [suffice, French; sifficio, Latin.] 
To be enough ; to be sufficient; to be equal to the end or 
purpose. 
To recount almighty works 
What words or tongue of seraph can suffice, 
Or heart of man suffice to comprehend ? Milton. 
To SUFFI'CE v. a. To afford ; to supply. 
The pow’r appeas’d, with winds suffic'd the sail; 
The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dry den. 
To satisfy; to be equal to want or demand.—Parched 
corn she did eat, and was sufficed, and left. Ruth. — Let it 
suffice thee that thou know’st us happy. Milton. 
SUFFICIENCY, 5. [suffisance, Fr.] State of being 
adequate to the end proposed.—'His sufficiency is such, that 
he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. 
Boyle. —Qualification for any purpose_I am not so con¬ 
fident of my own sufficiency, as not willingly to admit the 
counsel of others.—Competence; enough.—An elegant 
sufficiency, content. Thomson. —Supply equal to want.— 
It is used by Temple for that conceit which makes a man 
think himself equal to things above him ; and is commonly 
compounded with self. — Sufficiency is a compound of 
vanity and ignorance. Temple. 
SUFFICIENT, adj. [suffisant, Fr., sufficiens, Latin.] 
Equal to any end or purpose; enough; competent; not 
deficient.— Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. St. 
Matt. 
Heaven yet retains 
Number sufficient to possess her realms. Milton. 
Qualified for any thing by fortune or otherwise.—In say¬ 
ing he is a good man, understand me, that he is sufficient. 
Shakspeare. 
SUFFICIENTLY, adv. To a sufficient degree; enough. 
—If religion did possess sincerely and sufficiently the hearts 
of all men, there would need be no other restraint from evil. 
Hooker. 
Seem I to thee sufficiently possess’d 
Of happiness ? Milton. 
All to whom they are proposed, are by his grace sufficient¬ 
ly moved to attend and assent to them; sufficiently, but 
not irresistibly; for if all were irresistibly moved, all would 
embrace them; and if none were sufficiently moved, none 
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