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tic; being about 175 miles long and 125 broad. It is full of fo-rests and very high mountains, which feed a great number of cat-tle, and very active horses.
SAMOlEDA, a country of the Russian empire, between Asia-tic Tartary and Archangel, lying along the Sea-coast as far as Si-beria . The inhabitants are so rude, that they can hardly pretendto humanity, except in face and figure.
SAMOLUS, Round leaved Water-Pimpernf.l; in bo-tany, a genus of the monogynia order, and pentandria class ofplants; natural order, Precise. Corolla salver-shaped; staminasurrounded by small scales at its throat; capsule one-celled, infe-rior. It has but one species.
SAMOS, in ancient geography, an island of Asia , in the JEgeansea, near the promontory M vcale, opposite to Ephesus ; the dis-tance only 7 ..tadia, in compass R7 miles. It is famous for theworship and a temple of Juno, with a noted asylum.
SAMO THRACE, or SAMOTI1RACIA, in ancient geogra-phy, an island in the yEgean sea, opposite the mouth of the He-brus, 32 miles from the coast of Thrace . It was also called Dar-dahia, Electria, Leucania, Leucosia, Melitis, and Samos.
SAMOT11RAC1ANS, the people of Samothrace . Accord-ing to the Pagan superstitions, they were esteemed very religious ;and hence the island was styled sacred, and became an asylum toall criminals and fugitives.
SAMOYEDLS, a nation of Asia , in Tartary, formerly nume-rous and powerful.
SAMP, a dish said to have been invented by the savages ofNorth America , who have no corn-mills. It is Indian corn de-prived of its external coat by soaking it ten or twelve hours in alixivium of water and wood-ashes. This coat, or husk, being se-parated from the kernel, rises to the surface of the. water, while thegrain, which is specifically heavier than water, remains at the bot-tom of the vessel ; which grain, thus deprived of its hard coat ofarmour, is boiled, or rather simmered, for two days, in a kettle ofwater near the lire. When sufficiently cooked, the kernels swellto a great size and burst open ; and this food, which is uncom-monly sweet and nourishing, may be used in a varety of way's;but the best way is to mix ft with milk, and with soups, and broths,as a substitute tor bread. It is even better than bread for thesepurposes ; tor besides being quite as palatable as the very bestbread, it is less liable than bread to grow too soft when mixedwith these liquids.
SAMPAN, a Chinese boat which has no keel, looking almostlike a trough; they are made of different dimensions, 0 but aremostly covered.
SAMSO, SAMSOE, or SAMSOI, an island of Denmark , be-tween North Jutland and Zealand ; 12 miles long from N. to S.ar >d from 1 to 4 broad from E. to W. The soil is very fertile, andme inhabitants carrv on some trade. It lies 8 miles from NorthJutland . Lon. 10. 30. E. Lat. 55. 56. N.
. RAMSON, the son of Manoah , of the tribe of Dan, .the lastJudge of Israel , except Eli and Samuel, during the period of the^mvish commonwealth. The extraordinary circumstances of hispV!jb ,'‘ lc , miraculous strength, marriage, repeated defeats of thejj. m^ines, captivity, and death, are recorded in Judges xiii—xvi.in H Vei " suic ' c * e was justifiable upon principles of patriotism, it wasthe 16 CaS - C damson ; who by his voluntary death slew more of'vh t' 1 r™ eS ^ ls cou,lt 7> 'I' 211 i le I‘ a( I previously done during his
° . e . ■ He judged Israel 20 years. Chronologists place his
Pop ' ' n A 2887 ; or R. C. 1117. Milton wrote a beautiful
o'J? b ; . s history, intituled Sam-on Agonistes.sp- * j HEL, [Stpoet, Ileb. i. c. heard of God, ] an eminent in-I >ro P* 1et ’ historian, and jud ge, of Israel , and the last judge offamu om i 110n wealth. He was the son of Elkanab, a Levite of theharv °* ^°I la th, by his beloved wife Hannah. The extraordi-God j' lrc<l . msta ' lces preceding his birth ; his early dedication totions 1 " IS m ?th er > with her hymn on that occasion; the revela-the p 0|1 m il micated to him by the Almighty ; his reformation of>nni,iii?! ) - ’ aiH ' their consequent victory over the Philistines ; thei sons, which excited the people to desire
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and his death, are recorded in 1 Sam. i—xxv. Dr. Watkins place'shis death, in 15. C. 1057, in his 98th year. He is reckoned theauthor of the, books of Judges and Ruth ; and it seems pro-bable, that the first 24 chapters of 1 Samuel were also written byhim.
SAMYDA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, anddecandria c lass of plants. Calyx five-parted, coloured; corollanone; nest bell-shaped, staminiferous; capsules berried within,four-valved, one-celled ; seeds nestling. There are nine species.
SAN FERNANDO, a sea-port-town of Honduras , near theentrance of the Golfo Dolce. It is a good harbour, with safe an-chorage from the N. and IT winds, in 8 fathoms water.
SANA, or SANAA , a large, populous, and handsome town ofAsia , capital of Arabia Felix, situated in Proper Yemen, at thefoot of mount Nikkum, on which are still to be seen the ruins of acastle, which the Arabs suppose to have been built by Shem. Sanalies 80 miles N. E. of Aden ,
Sana, or Zina, a province or jurisdiction of Peru , in the bi-shopric of Truxillo; extending 75 miles along the coast. Thesoil is level and fertile, but the heat often intolerable.
Sana, or Zana, the capital of the above district.
SANAFIR, an island in the Red Sea ; 90 miles S. E. of Tor,and 408 N. N. E. of Jidda .
SAN BACH, a town of England, in Cheshire , 26 miles E. ofChester, and 161 N. N. W. of London . Lon. 2. 28. W. Lat.53. 8. N.
SANCERRE, a town of France , in the department of Cher,anti late province of Berry, 224 miles N. E. of Bourges . Lon. 2.59. E. Lat. 47. 20. N.
SANCHO, Ignatius, an extraordinary negro, born in 1729,on board a ship, in the slave-trade, a few days after it lead left thecoast of Guinea. At Carthagena he was baptized by the bishop.His mother died from the change of climate, and his father unableto survive her, killed himself. 'The orphan, Ignatius, was broughtto England, and experienced the kindness of the duke of Mon-tagu, who gave him education, in which he made such progress,that he. commenced author. Ills Letters obtained a numerousand respectable subscription, and prove him to have been possess-ed of just ideas, as well as of uncommon genius. In short his ac-quirements afford a decisive refutation of the doctrine urged bythe advocates for the slave-trade, that the Africans are of inferiorabilities to the white-, and incapable of improvement.
SAN CII ONI ATI! O, or SANCIIONIA I'HON, a Phoeni-cian philosopher and historian, who is said to have nourished be-fore the Trojan war, about the time of Scmiramis. Of this mostancient writer, the only remains extant are sundry fragments ofcosmogony, and of the history of the gods and first mortals, pre-served by Eusebius and Theodoret ; both of whom speak ol San-choniatho as an accurate and faithful historian ; and the formeradds, that his work, which was translated by Philo Bvblius fromthe Phoenician into the Greek language, contains many things re-lating to the history of the Jews which deserve great credit, bothbecause they agree with the Jewish writers, and because the authorreceived these particulars from the annals of Hieroinbalus, a priestof the god Jao.
SAN-CIAN, an island pf Asia , near Ilai-Nan, on the coast ofthe province of Quang-Tong, in China ; about 42 miles in cir-cumference.
SANCOINS, a town of France , in the department of Cher,and late province of Berry, 15 miles S. \Y. of Nevers, and 254 S.E. of Bourses.
SANCTIFICATION , the act of sanctifying, or rendering athing holy. The reformed divines define sanctification to he anact of God ’s grace, by which a person’s desires and affections arealienated from the world, and by which he is made to die to sin,and to live to righteousness; or, to feel an abhorrence of, andfreedom from, all vice, and a love of virtue and religion.
SANCTION, in law, is the authority given to a judicial act,by which it becomes legal and authentic.
BANC I OKIES, or SANT ORILS, a most ingenious andlearned physician, was a professor in the university of Padua, inthe beginning of the 17th century. He contrived a kind of ’sta-tical chair, by means of which, after estimating the aliments re-ceived, and the sensible discharges, he was enabled to determinewith great exactness the quantity of insensible perspiration, as well