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key, situated near the remains of the ancient Greek city of 
Tralles. On the top of a neighbouring hill appear the traces 
of some very grand buildings, particularly a temple and a 
theatre, with fifty rows of seats. There are also remains of a 
very magnificent portico, with two rows of pillars; 23 miles 
east of Scalanova. 
SULTANIA, an ancient city of Persia, in the northern 
part of the province of Irak. It was anciently large and 
magnificent, and under one of the Tartar dynasties, formed 
the capital of the empire. A series of political vicissitudes, 
however, have entirely destroyed this early prosperity. It is 
now an entire mass of ruins, being only inhabited by about 
twenty poor families, who occupy wretched hovels in the 
vicinity of the tomb of Sultan Hodabunda, the founder. 
This is a large and beautiful structure, built of brick, and 
covered with a cupola, 90 feet in height, that would do 
honour to the most scientific architect in Europe. Lat. 36. 
32. N. long. 48.26. E. 
SULTANPORE, a town of Hindostan, province of La¬ 
hore, belonging to the Seiks. It is the capital of the Doabeh 
Jallinder district. Lat. 31. 18. N. long. 74. 45. E. 
SULTANPORE, a town of Hindostan, province of Oude. 
It is pleasantly situated on the eastern bank of the Goompty 
river, and is the station of a British detachment. It was at 
this place that the first British brigade employed by the 
Nabob Shuja Addowlah, was cantoned in the years 1773 and 
1774. Lat. 26. 18. N. long. 82. 3. E.—There are several 
other places of this name in Hindostan, founded by different 
sultans or monarchs, but none other of consequence. 
SU'LTANRY, s. An Eastern empire.— I affirm the 
same of the sultanry of the Mamalukes, where slaves, 
bought for money, and of unknown descent, reigned over 
families of freemen. Bacon. 
SU'LTRINESS, s. The state of being sultry; close and 
cloudy heat 
SU'LTRY, adj. [bpeltan, Sax. signifies to die. Chaucer 
uses swelte to signify the effect of a great oppression of spi¬ 
rits. Hence our word sultry, i. e. sweltry, to express a 
suffocating heat. Hence, also, the verb suiter or soulter, 
was used for swelter, i. e. to overpower with heat. “ Horse 
and asses tired, and sou/tred with the heat of the day.” 
Gayton, Notes on Don 2uixi] Hot without ventilation; 
hot and close; hot and cloudy.—It is very sultry and hot. 
Shakspeare. 
The sultry breath 
Of tainted air had cloy’d the jaws of death. Sandys. 
SULZ, a small town in the north of Germany, in the grand 
duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin, on the Reckenitz. Popu¬ 
lation 1400; 20 miles east of Rostock, and 21 south-west 
of Stralsund. 
SULZ, a small town in the west of Germany, in Wirtem- 
berg, on the Neckar. It is remarkable for its productive salt 
springs. Population 2100; 14 miles south-east of Freu- 
denberg, and 14 north of Rothweil. 
SULZ, or Upper Sulz, a small town of Lower Austria, 
on the small river Sulz. Population 1500 ; 20 miles north- 
north-east of Vienna. 
SULZ, or Sulz below the Forest, a large village 
in the east of France, department of the Lower Rhine. Here 
are salt and mineral springs. Population 1300. 
SULZ, a small river of Franconia, which rises near Neu- 
mark, and falls into the Altmuhl. 
SULZ, Upper, a small town of the east of France, in 
Alsace, department of the Upper Rhine. It has 4,000 inha¬ 
bitants, and some manufactures, but is known in history for 
little except having been a commandery of the order of St. 
John ; 14 miles south-south-west of Colmar. 
SULZA, or Stadt Sulza, a small town of the interior 
of Germany, in the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar, on the 
Ilm, near its confluence with the Saale. Population 1100; 
14 miles north-east of Weimar, and 8 west-by-south of 
Naumburg. 
SULZA, New, another small town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Saxe-Gotha, near Stadt-Sulza, in Saxe-Weimar, re¬ 
markable for its salt-works. 
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SULBACH, a small town of Germany, in Bavaria. It 
contains 2200 inhabitants, who are partly Catholics, partly 
Lutherans; and the town, small as it is, is divided into 
Upper and Lower; 6 miles west-by-north of Amberg, and 
36 north-by-west of Ratisbon. 
SULZBACH, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Wirtemberg, county of Lowenstein-Wertheim, on the Muhr, 
with 1100 inhabitants. 
SULZBERG, a small town of Bavaria; 64 miles west- 
south-west of Munich, and 5 south of Kempten. Popula¬ 
tion 1700. 
SULZBURG, a small town in the west of Germany, in 
Baden, situated in a well wooded valley. It has mineral 
springs, and mines of lead and cobalt, but only 1000 inha¬ 
bitants. 
SULZER (John-George), was born in 1720, at Winter- 
ther, in the canton of Zurich, and being the youngest of 
twenty-five children, and having lost both his parents in 
the same day in the year 1734, his patrimony was scarcely 
sufficient for defraying the expense of his education. In 
1736, however, he was sent to the gymnasium of Zurich, 
where he was principally indebted for instruction to John 
Gesner, and also to Bodmer and Breitinger, who formed and 
directed his taste. At this time his attention was divided be¬ 
tween the study of the Hebrew language, Wolf’s philosophy, 
and the system of Linnmus. In 1739 he was licensed to 
preach by the synod of Zurich. His first publication was 
entitled “Moral Considerations on the Works of Nature;” 
and his account of a tour which he made in 1742 into the 
neighbouring part of the Alps was printed in 1745. He now 
visited Berlin, and there gained the friendship of Euler and 
Maupertins; but during his previous residence at Magde¬ 
burg, he edited a translation of “ Scheuchzer’s Itinera Al- 
pina,” and wrote his “ Treatise on the Education and In¬ 
struction of Youth.” In the year 1760, he had the misfor¬ 
tune to lose his wife. In order to dissipate his grief, he 
employed his time in completing his “Theory of the Fine 
Arts.” In 1768 he published, for the use of schools, 
“ Exercises to excite Attention and Reflection,” and “ Ob¬ 
servations on the reciprocal Influence of Reason on Lan¬ 
guage, and of Language on Reason.” In the next year he 
committed to the press his excellent “ Dictionary of the 
Fine Arts:” the first part of this work appeared in 1771. In 
the same year, Sulzer made an attempt in dramatic writing, 
but his talents did not appear suited to this kind of compo¬ 
sition. He expired, as if falling asleep, in the month of 
February 1779. Gen. Biog. 
SULZERTOWN, a village of the United States, in the 
territory of the Mississippi, situated on the Mississippi, about 
10 miles above Natchez. 
SULZFELD, a small town of Bavarian Franconia, with 
800 inhabitants; 9 miles south-east of Wurzburg. 
SUM, s. [sur/tma, Lat.; somme, Fr.] The whole of any 
thing; many particulars aggregated to a total. 
Weighing the sum of things with wise forecast. 
Solicitous of public good. Philips. 
Quantity of money. 
I did send to you 
For certain sums of gold, which you deny’d me. 
Shakspeare. 
[Somme, Fr.] Compendium; abridgement; the whole 
abstracted.—This, in effect, is the sum and substance of that 
which they bring by way of opposition against those orders, 
which we have common with the church of Rome. Hooker. 
—The amount; the result of reasoning or computation.—I 
appeal to the readers, whether the sum of what I have said 
be not this. Til/otson. —Height; completion. 
Thus I have told thee all my state, and brought 
My story to the sum of earthly bliss. 
Which 1 enjoy. Milton. 
To SUM, v. a. [sommer, Fr.] To compute; to collect 
particulars into a total; to cast up. It has up emphaticab 
You cast the event of war. 
And sumnid th’ account of chance. Shakspeare. 
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