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situated in the vicinity of the downs, and overlook the Weald. 
Mr. Dallaway, in his “ History of Western Sussex,” recounts 
eleven of those relics of early encampment. Over the 
downs, and other parts of Sussex, are scattered various tumuli 
or barrows, which, when opened, have been found to con¬ 
tain either bones, urns, or entire skeletons. Sussex, and the 
adjoining counties of Hants and Surrey, were by the Romans 
denominated Belgae, from the circumstance of their being in¬ 
habited by a people so called. These were afterwards joined 
by the Regni, who settled in the same district antecedent to 
the invasion of England by Julius Caesar. After that event 
during the Roman dominion of Britain, there were four 
large stations or towns in Sussex, which included the minor 
tribes of the Bibroci and the Rhemi. Under the Britons, 
Sussex formed a part of the South-Seaxna-rice, as already 
mentioned in Surrey; and by a similar modulation has been 
reduced to its present sound. Like the other counties of Eng¬ 
land, Sussex was, at the Norman invasion, divided into 
lordships, and assigned to some of the followers of king 
William. At that period the title of Earl of Sussex was given 
to one of these, and the title continued till 1801, when it be¬ 
came extinct. It was then constituted a dukedom, and 
given to Augustus Frederick, the present Duke. The 
general division of Sussex is into rapes, a division peculiar 
to this county. These rapes, each of which is said to have 
had its particular castle, river, and forest, are Chichester, 
Arundel, and Bramber, forming the western; and Lewes, 
Pevensey, and Hastings, the eastern portion. The rapes are 
subdivided into sixty-five hundreds, and comprehend 313 
parishes. Chichester is the chief town. 
Sussex sends 28 members to parliament, two for the coun¬ 
ty, two for the city of Chichester, and two for each of the 
four Cinque Ports that are situated within the county. Po¬ 
pulation: males 116,605, females 116,314, 
SUSSEX, a county of the United States, in New Jersey, 
bounded north-north-east by New York, south-east by Ber¬ 
gen, Morris, and Hunterdon counties, and west and north¬ 
west by the Delaware, which separates it from Pennsylvania. 
Population 25,749. Chief town, Newton. 
SUSSEX, a county of the United States, in Delaware, 
bounded north by Kent county, east by Delaware bay and 
the Atlantic, south and west by Maryland. Population 
27,750, including 2402 slaves. Chief towns, Georgetown 
and Lewistown. 
SUSSEX, a county of the United States, in Virginia, 
bounded north-east by Surrey county, south-south-east by 
Southampton county, south-west by Greensville county, and 
north-west by Dinwiddie and Prince George counties. Po¬ 
pulation 11,362, including 6644 slaves. 
SUSSMILCH (John Peter), a German Lutheran divine, 
was born about the beginning of the last century, and ap¬ 
plied with diligence not only to the study of history, but to 
that of mathematics, so that he became an expert calculator 
in political arithmetic. He is principally known by a work, 
entitled “ Die Gottliche, &c.” i. e. “ the order observed by 
God in the changes of the human race, demonstrated by the 
births, deaths, and propagation of mana fourth edition of 
which, improved and corrected by J. C. Bauman, was pub¬ 
lished at Berlin in the year 1775, in 3 vols. 8vo. In this 
work, the author first treats of the multiplications of men in 
general, and shews that the number of births is almost 
always greater than that of the deaths: he then enumerates 
the obstacles to the increase of mankind; examines how 
many persons live on the earth, and how many it could 
contain; treats on the different causes of fecundity; the pro¬ 
pagation of the two sexes, and the proportion of one to the 
other; of the proportion of those who die at different ages; 
of diseases and their proportion, &c. 
To SUSTAI'N, v. a. [sustineo, Lat] To bear; to 
prop; to hold up. 
Vain is the force of man, 
To crush the pillars that the pile sustain. Dry den. 
To support; to keep from sinking under evil.—If he have 
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no comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him 
under the evils in this world, he is of all creatures the most 
miserable. Tillotson. —To maintain; to keep.—My labour 
will sustain me. Milton. —To help; to relieve; to assist. 
—They charged on pain of perpetual displeasure, neither to 
entreat for him, or any way sustain him. Ska/cspeare. — 
To bear; to endure. 
Can Ceyx then siistain to leave his wife. 
And unconcerned forsake the sweets of life ? Dry den. 
To bear without yielding. 
Sacharissa’s beauty’s wine, 
Which to madness doth incline; 
Such a liquor as no brain 
That is mortal can sustain. Waller. 
To suffer; to bear as inflicted. 
If you omit 
The offer of this time, I cannot promise, 
But that you shall sustain more new disgraces, 
With these you bear already. ShaJcspeare. 
SUSTAI'N, s. What sustains or supports. Not used. 
I lay and slept, I wak’d again. 
For my sustain 
Was the Lord. Milton. 
SUSTAI'N ABLE, adj. [ soustenable , Fr.] That may 
be sustained. 
SUSTAI'NER, s. One that props; one that supports.— 
The first founder, sustainer, and continuer thereof, [the 
church.] More. —One that suffers; a sufferer. 
Thyself hast a sustainer been 
Of much affliction in my cause. Chapman. 
SUSTEAD, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4f miles 
south west of Cromer. 
SU'STENANCE, s. [ soustenance , Fr.] Support; 
maintenance.—Is then the honour of your daughter of greater 
moment to her, than to my daughter her’s, whose suste¬ 
nance it was ? Addison. —Necessaries of life; victuals.— 
The experiment cost him his life for want of sustenance. 
L'Estrange. 
SUSTE'NTACLE, s. [sustentaculum, Lat.] Support. 
Not in use. —God’s the sustenlac/e of all natures. More. 
SUSTE'NTATION, s. [from sustento, Latin.] Sup¬ 
port; preservation from falling.—These steams once raised 
above the earth, have their ascent and sustentation aloft 
promoted by the air. Doyle. —Use of victuals.—A very 
abstemious animal by reason of its frigidity, and latitancy in 
the winter, will long subsist without a visible sustentation. 
Brown. —Maintenance; support of life.—When there be 
great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without 
foreseeing means of life and sustentation ; it is of necessity 
that once in an age they discharge a portion of their people 
upon other nations. Bacon. 
SUSTEREN, or Sustern, a small town of the Nether¬ 
lands, in the province of Limburg, with 1400 inhabitants; 
10 miles south-south-west of Ruremonde. 
SUST1NENTE, a small town of Austrian Italy, on the 
Po ; 12 miles south-east of Mantua. 
SUSURRATION, s. [from susurro, Lat.] Whisper; 
soft murmur. 
SUSZEN-KIRDHEN, a village of the west of Germany, 
in Baden, near Frey berg, where a partial action was fought 
in 1796, between the French and Austrians, in favour of the 
latter. 
SUTALURY, a town of Bengal, district of Backergunge. 
It is advantageously situated, and carries on a considerable 
trade in grain, &c. Lat. 22. 38. N. long. 90. 10. E. 
SUTCHANA, a town of Hindostan, province of Gujerat, 
belonging to the jam or chief of Noonagur. It is situated 
on the eastern side of the gulf of Cutch, and carries on an 
extensive fishery. Some pearl oysters are also found in its 
vicinity. Lat. not ascertained. 
SUTCOMBE. 
