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SELKIRK, Earl of, his colony in Canada,

xx. 315. , Alexander, prototype of Robinson

Crusoe, xxi. 639; xin. 758. SELLASIA, Greece, Battle of (221), xvin.

790.

SELLER, in law, xxi. 205, 206. SELLING, William, early English scholar,

vin. 414. SELMA, town, Alabama, U.S.A., xxi.

SELTERS, spa, Germany, xvi. 436. SEM, river, Montenegro, xvi. 780. SEMANG, race of people, Malacca, xv.

323-

SEMAPHORE, for signals, xxn. 49. SEMBERA, Alois, Bohemian historical

writer, XXII. 153.

SEMECHONITIS, or Merom, lake, Pales tine, xin. 746. SEMEISKIYE, Nonconformists in Eastern

Siberia, xxm. 510. SEMENDER, ancient Khazar town,

Russia, xiv. 59.

SEMENDRIA, town, Servia, xxi. 688. SEMIGALLIA, tribe, Lithuania, xiv. 702. SEMINOLES, American-Indian tribe,

xn. 831, 835; war against, in Florida,

IX. 341. SEMIPALATINSK, province and town,

Russian Central Asia, xxi. 639. SEMIPELAGIANISM, theological doctrine,

xvin. 472.

SEMIRAMIDE, Gluck s opera, x. 694. SEMIRAMIS, Legend of, xxi. 639. SEMIRYETCHENSK, province, Russian

Turkestan, xxi. 640. SEMITES, ethnological group, n. 697,

698; xxi. 641, 643. SEMITIC ALPHABETS, i. 608. SEMITIC INSCRIPTIONS, xin. 116. SEMITIC LANGUAGES, xxi. 641; xvin.

778; xxiv. 740; dictionaries of, vn.

189.

SEMITONES, in music, xvn. 78. SEMLER, Johann Salomo, German

Biblical critic, xxi. 656; xx. 290; on

the canon, v. 15. SEMLIN, town, Austria-Hungary, xxi.

657. SEMN^E, or Furies, Altar of, at Athens,

in. 2. See also ix. 840; vin. 524. SEMNOPITHECUS, genus of apes, n. 151. SEMOLINA, article of food, xv. 125. SEMONIDES (Sinionides) of Amorgos,

Greek poet, xxn. 83; xxi. 318. SEMPACH, Switzerland, Battle of (1386),

xv. 40; xxn. 784.

, Lake, Switzerland, xxn. 777. SEMPER, Gottfried, German architect,

xxi. 657. SEMPERVIVUM, genus of plants, xn.

3 7- SEMPLE, Robert, early Scottish poet,

xxi. 542. SEMPRINGHAM, St Gilbert of, English

monk, x. 593.

SE-MUN, river, Cambodia, Asia, xv.

832. SENAAR, country, East Central Africa,

xxi. 657. SENAC, Jean Baptist e, French physician,

xv. 815. SENACULUM, meeting place, ancient

Rome, xx. Si 6. SENA GALLICA (Sinigaglia), ancient

town, Italy, XXII. 94. SENANCOUR, Etienne Pivert cle, French

man of letters, XXI. 658. SENARMONTITE, mineral, xvi. 388. SENATE, Roman, xx. 733, 738, 755, 772,

784, 793) 795-

, of the United States, XXIII.

749-

SENCHUS MOR, ancient Irish code, iv. 252.

SENEBIER, Jean, Swiss vegetable-physio logist, xxi. 658.

SENECA, Lake, New York, U.S.A., xvn. 451.

, Lucius Annams, Roman rhetorician

and philosopher, XXI. 658; VII. 410; xx. 725; xxil. 572; his economic teaching, xix. 350; his influence on Nero, xvii. 348 ; his death, xvn. 350; language and style of, xiv. 337.

FALLS, town, New York, U.S.A.,

xxi. 659. SENECIO, genus of plants, XL 221. SENEFELDER, Alois, discoverer of the

art of lithography, xiv. 697. SENEGAL, French colony, West Africa,

xxi. 660 ; Adanson s exploration of,

I. 144.

, river, West Africa, xxi. 660; I.

SENEGAMBIA, country, West Africa,

xxi. 661; i. 268.

SENESCHAL, Royal, England, xxi. 36. SENEX, J., his map of London (1720),

xiv. 849. SENGEL, or Senguer, river, Patagonia,

xvm. 353. SENGORA, district, Malay Peninsula,

xv. 322. SEN i A VINE ISLANDS, group of Caroline

Islands, Pacific, v. 126. SENIGALLIA (Sinigaglia), town, Italy,

XXIL 94.

SENIOR, Nassau William, English econo mist, xxi. 663; xix. 377. SENKERAH, Tablets of, Babylonia,

Numerals in, xvn. 626. SENLAC, or Hastings, England, Battle

of (1066), vin. 291; xi. 486; xxn.

725; xxiv. 575. SENLIS, town, France, xxi. 664; xvn.

749-

SENNA, drug, xxi. 664; n. 237. , town on Zambesi river, Africa,

xxiv. 765.

SENNACHERIB, king of Assyria, in. 187; xin. 414; palaces of, at Nineveh, xvn. 512.

SENNAR (Senaar), country, East Central Africa, xxi. 657.

SENOFERU, king of Egypt, vn. 732.

SENORA, province, Mexico, xvi. 214.

SENS, town, France, xxi. 665; council of (i 140), i. 35; in. 602.

SENSATION, in physiology, xix. 27; xxm. 478; in psychology, xx. 40, 50, 67; in psycho-physics, xxiv. 469; xxm. 481 ; in philosophy of Condillac, VI. 251; of Democritus, vn. 60; of Hartley, xi. 498; of Locke, xiv. 758; of the Stoics, xxn. 565.

SENSE, distinguished from understand ing, xx. 75; in Eleatic philosophy, vin. i ; in Cudworth s, VI. 691 ; in Descartes s, v. 147; in Locke s, xiv. 753.

, Moral, or Conscience (7.^.), vin. 600.

SENSE-ORGANS, in man, i. 884; in Amphibia, I. 766; in birds, in. 725; in fishes, xn. 652; in mammals, xv. 366; in reptiles, xx. 461; in. 725.

SENSITIVE PLANT, xvi. 345; xix. 62.

SENSORY NERVES, xix. 27; how aifected by the hypnotic condition, xv. 279.

SENTENCES OF ALI, collection of Arabian proverbs, I. 572.

SENTENTIARUM MAGISTER (Peter Lom bard, f/.i), xiv. 813.

SENTIMENTS, Phrenological organs of, xvin. 845.

SENTINUM, Italy, Battle of (295 B.C.), xx. 743.

SENUSI, Mohammed el, Moslem mahdi, North Africa, xxi. 151; xxm. 575.

SEONI, or Seonee, district and town, India, xxi. 665.

SEOUL, town, Corea, vi. 391.

SEPALS, of plants, iv. 131.

SEPHARADIC RITUAL, of the Jews, xv.

293- SEPHARDIM, division of the Jews, xin.

683.

SEPHER YEZIRAH, Midrash, xvi. 286. SEPHIROTH, The Ten, of the Kabbalah,

xin. 811.

SEPIA, genus of molluscs, xvi. 669, 673. -, pigment, xxi. 666; xix. 88; from

the cuttlefish, vi. 737. SEPIOLITE, mineral, xv. 825. SEPOLCRI, Ugo Foscolo s poem, ix. 472;

xin. 513. SEPOY, native Indian soldier, XXI. 666;

II. 590; sepoy mutiny (1857), n. 591;

XII. 809.

SEPT, tribal division, V. 799. SEPT ATA, order of Protozoa, xix. 853. SEPTEMBER, month, xxi. 666. SEPTEM MARIA, lagoons, North-Eastern

Italy, xin. 436. SEPTIC/EMIA, disease, xxi. 666; xvin.

401; xxn. 678. SEPTIMANIA, ancient province, France,

xiv. 287.