SCH ( 27 ) are a mixture of Lutherans and Calvinists. The SCHAUENSTEIN, a town of Franconia, in SCHAUERS, a town of Germany, in imperial Auftria; 6 miles SW. of Lintz. SCHAUMBURG, a town, castle, and lordship of Germany, in the circle of the Lower Rhine; 25 m. WSW. of Wetzlar, and 23 NNW. of Mentz. SCHAUNSTAIN, a town of Germany in im perial Auftria; 4 miles SW. of Horn. SCHAUT, a town of Ruffia; 104 miles SW. of Upha. SCHAYCH, a river of Germany, in Suabia, which runs into the Neckar, near Nuttingen. SCHEDRIN, a fort of Ruffia on the Malka; 80 miles ESE, of Ekaterinogrod. SCHEDUAN, an island in the Red Sea, 8 miles long and broad; equidiftant from the coafts of 3 Afia and Africa. Being an enormous rock, without foil, it has neither water, trees, nor plants. Lon. 51. 55. E. Ferro. Lat. 27. 35. N... (1.)* SCHEDULE. n. s. (schedula, Latin sche. dule, French] 1. A fmall fcroll.-The first publifhed schedules being brought to a grave knight, he read over an unfavory fentence or two, and de2. A writing adlivered back the libel. Hooker. ditional or appendant. All ill, which all Prophets or poets fpake, and all which all B' annex'd in schedules unto this by me, Donne. Fall on that man! 3. A little inventory.—I will give out schedules of my beauty. Shak. (2.) A SCHEDULE is a scroll of paper or parchment, annexed to a will, leafe, or other deed; containing an inventory of goods, or fome other matter omitted in the body of the deed.-The word is a diminutive of the Latin scheda, or Greek xide, a leaf or piece of paper. SCH Η Malmo. In 1967, he went to Stockholm, and managed the fhop of Mr Scharenberg. In 1773, he changed this place for another at Upfal, under Mr Loock. From Mr Loock's acquaintance with learned men, and from his having free access to the University Laboratory, he had great opportu nities of increafing his knowledge. Here alto he commenced the friendship which fubfifted between him and Bergman. During his refidence at this place, Prince Henry of Pruffia, accompa nied by the Duke of Sunderland, vifited Upfal, and went to see the Academical Laboratory, Scheele was appointed by the University to exhi bit fome chemical experiments to them. This office he undertook, and fhewed fome of the most curious proceffes in chemistry. The two princes At their departure afked him many questions, and expressed their approbation of his anfwers. they requested of the profeffor, that the young man fhould have free access to the Laboratory, as often as he chofe. In 1777, Scheele was appointed by the Medical College to be apothecary at Koping: where. he foon fhewed his abilities. When he was at Stockholm he discovered the new and wonderful acid contained in the sparry fluor. It has been confidently afferted, that Scheele was the first who difcovered the nature of the aerial acid; and that whilft he was at Upfal he made many experiments to prove its properties. This might probability have furnished Bergman with the means of handling this fubject more fully. At the fame place he began the feries of excellent ex. periments on that remarkable mineral fubftance, manganefe; from which inveftigation he was led to mark the very valuable and interesting difcovery of the dephlogisticated marine acid. At the fame time he firft obferved the ponderous earth. Koping he finished his Differtation on Air and Fire; a work which the celebrated Bergman most warmly recommended in the friendly preface which he wrote for it. The theory which Scheele endeavours to prove in this treatise is, that fire confifts of pure air and phlogiston; wherein, though he did not discover the whole truth, he certainly paved the way to it. The author's merit in this work was fufficient to obtain the approbation of the public; as the ingenuity difplayed in handling fo delicate a fubject, and the many new and valuable obfervations difperfed through the treatise, juftly entitled the author to that fame which his book procured him. It was spread abroad through every country, became foon out of print, was reprinted, and tranflated into many languages. The English tranflation is enriched with the notes of that accurate and truly philofophic genius Richard Kirwan, Efq. Scheele now diligently employed himfelf in contributing to the Transac tions of the Academy at Stockholm. He first pointed out a new way to prepare the salt of benzoin. In the fame year he discovered that arfenic, prepared in a particular manner, partakes of all the In a Differtation on properties of an acid, and bas its peculiar affinities to other fubftances. Flint, Clay, and Alum, he clearly overturned Beaume's opinion of the identity of the filiceous and argillaceous earths. He published alfo an Anaiyfis of the Human Calculus. He fhewed alfo a mode of preparing MERCURIUS DULCIS in the SCHEELE, Charles William, a late eminent Swedish chemift, born on the 19th Dec. 1742, at Stralfund, where his father kept a fhop. When very young he received the ufual education at a private school; and was afterwards advanced to an academy. At a very early age he fhewed a ftrong defire to follow the profeffion of an apothecary. With Mr Bauch, an apothecary at Gottenburg, he paffed an apprenticeship of fix years, and laid the first foundations of his knowledge. Among the various books which he read, on chemical fubjects, Kunckel's Laboratory was his favourite. He repeated many of the experiments in that work privately in the night, when the reft of the family were afleep. A friend of Scheele's had allo excited his attention to experiments in. che miftry by advising him to read Neuman's Chemistry; and though in the course of his ftudies he made fome dangerous and unlucky experiments, by mixing oil of cloves and fuming acid of nitre, which immediately took fire; and with pyrophorus, yet circumstances of this kind did but the more inflame his defire to repeat experiments. After his departure from Gottenburg, in 1765, he obtained a place with Kalstrom, an apothecary at D 2 At humid humid way, and improved the process of making notes. Scheele alfo madé important difcoverie the powder of Algaroth He analyfed MOLYBDE- refpecting the FLUORIC ACID. See CHEMISTRY NA. He difcovered a beautiful green pigment. Index. He obferved, that no pyrophorus can be He fhewed how to decompofe atmospheric air. made unless an alkali be préfent. (See PYROPHOHe difcovered that fome neutral falts are decom- RUS.) His last differtation was his very valuable posed by lime and iron. He decompofed PLUM obfervations on the acid of the gallut. (See BAGO, or black lead. He obferved, with peculiar GALLIC ACID, under CHEMISTRY, Index.) Ehringenuity, an acid in milk, which decompofes ace hart, one of Scheele's most intimate friends, aftated alkali, (See LACTIC ACID,) and in his experis ferts, that he was the difcoverer of both of the ments on the fugar of milk, he discovered another acids of fugar and tartar. We are also indebted acid, different from that acid and the common to him for that masterpiece of chemical decompoacid of fugar. (See SACCHOLACTIC ACID) He fition, the feparation of the acid of phofphorus accomplished the decompofition of TUNGSTEIN, from bones. (See PHOSPHORIC ACID.) This the component parts of which were before un appears from a letter which Scheele wrote to known, and found in it a particular acid earth uni. Gahn, who has generally had the reputation of ted to lime. (See TUNGSTIC ACID.) He publish this great difcovery. This acid begins to draw ed an excellent differtation on the different forts the attention of the phyfician. It was firft ufed of ETHER. He found out an eafy way to pre- in medicine, "united to the mineral alkali, by the ferve vinegar for many years. His inveftigation ingenious Dr Pearfon. The value of this addi of the colouring matter in PRUSSIAN BLUE, the tion to the materia medica is evinced by the inmeans he employed to feparate it, and his difco creafed demand for it, and the quantity now very that alkali, fal ammoniac, and charcoal, prepared and fold in London. We may tamp mixed together, will produce it, are ftrong marks the character of Scheele as a philofopher from his of his penetration and genius. See PRUSSIC many and important difcoveries. His friends afACID. He found out a peculiar fweet matter in firm, that his moral character was irreproachable, expreffed oils, after they have been boiled with From his outward appearance, one would not litharge and water. He fhewed how the acid of have judged him to be a man of extraordinary lemons may be obtained in cryftals. He found the abilities; but there was a quickness in his eye, white powder in rhubarb, which Model thought which, to an accurate obferver, would point out to be felenite, and which amounts to one 7th of the penetration of his mind. He mixed but little the weight of the root, to be calcareous earth, with the crowd; as, when his profeffion permit. united to the acid of forrel. This fuggefted to ted him, he was for the most part employed in him the examination of the acid of forrel. (See his experimental inquiries. But he had a foul OXALIC ACID.) From his examination of the for friendship; nor could even his philofophical acids contained in fruits and berries, he found not purfuits withhold him from truly enjoying the one fpecies of acid alone, viz. the acid of lemon, fociety of thofe whom he esteemed and loved. but another alfo, which he denominated the ma- Before he adopted any opinion, or particular Jaceous acid, from its being found in the greateft theory, he confidered it with the greateft atten quantity in apples. (See MALIC ACID.) By the tion; but when once his fentiments were fixed, decompofition of Bergman's new metal (SIDE- hè adhered to them, and defended them with reRITE) he fhewed the truth of Meyer's and Kla- folution; though he was always ready to be conproth's conjecture concerning it. He boiled the vinced by weighty objections. His chemical apcalx of fiderite with alkali of tartar, and precipi- paratus was neither neat nor convenient; his latated nitrated mercury by the middle falt which boratory was fmall and confined; nor was be he obtained by this operation; the calx of mercu- particular in regard to the veffels which he em. ry which was precipitated was found to be unit- ployed in his experiments, fo that it is furprising ed to the acid of phofphorus; fo that he demon how fuch difcoveries, and fuch elegant experiftrates that this calx was PHOSPHORATED IRON. ments, could have been made under fuch difadHe found alfo, that the native Pruffian blue convantages. He understood none of the modern tained the fame acid. (See PRUSSIC ACID) He languages except the German and Swedish; fo difcovered by the fame means, that the perlute that he was forced to wait till difcoveries were acid, as it was then called, was not an acid fui conveyed to him in the flow channel of tranfiageneris, but the photphoric united to a small quan- tion. The important fervices which Scheele did tity of the mineral alkali. (See PHOSPHORIC A- to natural philofophy procured him univerfal reCID.) He fuggested an improvement in the pro- putation; and he was made a member of several cefs for obtaining magnefia from Epfom falt; he learned academies and philofophical focieties. advifes the adding of an equal weight of common An offer was made to him of an annuity of 3001. falt to the Epfom falt, fo that an equal weight of if he would fettle in this country; but death put the Glauber's falt may be obtained: but this will an end to this project. On the 19th May 1786, not fucceed unless in the cold of winter. Thefe are he was confined to his bed; on the 21ft he bethe valuable difcoveries of this great philofopher, queathed all he had to his wife, who was the wiwhich are to be found in the Tranfactions of the dow of his predecessor at Koping, and he died the Royal Society at Stockholm. Moft of his effays fame day. So the world loft within two years, have been published in French, by Madame Picar- BERGMAN and SCHEELE, of whom Sweden may det, and Monf. Morveau of Dijon. Dr Beddoes juftly boaft; two philofophers beloved by their alfo has made a very valuable English tranflation contemporaries, and whofe memory posterity will of the greater part of Scheele's differtations, to never cease to revere. which he has added fome useful and ingenious SCHEELIUM, n. /. in metallurgy, a name given by by the German chemifts, to the new metal called TUNGSTEN, after SCHEELE, the discoverer of its acid and other phenomena. (1, z.) SCHEER, a town and lordship of Suabia, on the Danube; 3 miles NW, of Mengen and 44 S. of Stuttgard. Lon. 26. 56. E. Ferro. Lat. 48.3. N, (3) S SCHEER, á tiver of France, which runs into the Ille, 3 miles N. of Erftein. (1.) SCHEFFER, John, a learned German, born at Strafburg, in 1621. He became eminent as a critic on Greek and Latin authors, and antiquis ties. Being obliged to leave his native country by the wars, in 1648, he retired to Sweden, where g Chriftina was patronizing all men of letters. He was foon after profeffor of eloquence and politics at Upfal; Honorary profeffor royal of the law of nature and nations; and affeffor of the royal college of antiquities; and at laft librarian of the university of Upfal. He published feveral learned works particularly, De Militia Favali Veterum. He died in 1679. (2.) SCHEFFER, Peter. See SCHOEFfer. SCHEFFERA. See SCHAFFERA, SCHEFFIELDIA. See SHEFFIELDIA. SCHEGARKA, a river of Ruffia, which runs, into the Oby, in Lon. 101, 30. E. Ferro. Lat. 57. 26, N. SCHEGINSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the province of Perm: 40 miles WNW. of Perm. SCHEGKIUS, James, a learned German phy fician and profeffor, of the 17th century, born at Schorndorf, in the duchy of Wirtemberg. He was firft appointed profeffor of philofophy, in Tu. bingen; and afterward profeffor of Medicine for 13 years. He wrote feveral works on Philofophy, Medicine, and Theology of which the most celebrated is his work De anima principatu; an cordi, an cerebræ, tribuendus., SCHEHALLIEN, SCHEHALLION, or THISCHEHALLION, CHALLIN, a high mountain of Scotland, in Rannoch, Perthshire, nearly in the centre of the kingdom. It is of a conical form, with a broad and circular bafe,, and, measures 3.564 feet in height. Its fides are barren, moftly folid rocks, with a few tufts of heath interfperfed, but it will be for ever famous in the annals of science, for an experiment made upon it, by Prof. Mafkelyne, the aftronomer royal, to determine the univerfal attraction of matter, and which proved decifive in favour of the truth of the Newtodian doctrine of attraction and gravitation. See ASTRONOMY, Index; and MOUNTAIN, S SCHEHREZUR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Curdistan; ros miles ESE. of Moful, and 150 N. of Bagdad. SCHEIBENBERG, a town of Upper Saxony, in Erzgeburg; near mines of filver and iron; 4 miles NE. of Schwarzenburg. SCHEIBS, a town of Auftria, on the Erle bach; 20 miles SW. of St Polten, and 44 WSW. of Vienna, SCHEICH-ALI, a town or stage in Arabia, where the caravans ftop in their journey from Egypt to Mecca; 12 miles W. of Akaba. SCHEICHS. See SCHIECHS. SCHEIDINGEN, a town of Germany, in Upper Saxony, in Querfurt; 10 miles NW. of Naumburg. SCHIEFLING, a town of Germany, in Stiría; 6 miles NE. of Neumarck, and 12 NE. of Muhrau. SCHEINER, Chriftopher, a German mathematician, aftronomer, and Jefuit, eminent for being the first who difcovered spots on the fun, was born at Schwaben in the territory of Middleheim in 1575. He first discovered fpots on the fun's disk in 1611, and made obfervations on thefe phenomena at Rome, until at length reducing them to order, he published them in one vol. folio in 1630. He wrote alfo fome other tracts relating to mathematics and philosophy, and died in 1690. SCHEINFELD, a town of Franconia, in Bamberg; 21 miles SW of Bamberg. SCHEKŠNA, a river of Ruffia, which rifes from Lake Bielo, and rums into the Volga, oppolite Ribnoi, in Jaroflaf... (1.) SCHELD, or a river of France and Hol(1.) SCHELDT, land, which rifes in the department of Aifne, and runs NE. by Cambray, Valenciennes, Tournay, Oudenarde, &c. and receiving the Lys at Ghent, runs E. by Dendermond, and then N. to Antwerp; below which city it divides into two branches, one called the Wefter Scheld, which feparates Flanders from Zealand, and difcharges itfelf into the fea near Flushing; and the other called the Easter Scheld, which runs by Bergen-op-Zoom, and afterwards between the islands Beveland and Schowen, and a little below falls into the fea. (2.) SCHELDT, or ESCAUT, a department of the French empire, comprehending part of the ci-devant province of Auftrian Flanders. GHENT is the capital. See ESCAUT, and FLANDERS, N° 1. SCHELENBURG, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, in the bishopric of Ofnaburgh; 7 miles E. of Ofnaburgh. SCHELESTADT, an ancient and strong town of France, in the dep. of Upper Rhine and ci-devant prov. of Alface. It was anciently of great importance; but its fortifications were destroyed by the French in 1673. After it was ceded to them, they fortified it again. It is feated on the Ille, 20 miles SW. of Strafburg. Lon. 7. 40. E. Lat. 48. 17. N. SCHELESTON, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfiftan; 66 miles WNW. of Schiras. SCHELFE, a town of Lower Saxony, in Schwerin; fo near the town of Schwerin, that both appear as one. It is governed by its own magiftrates. (1.) SCHELKEN KLEIN, a town of Tranfylvania, 8 miles NNW. of Hermanftadt. (2.) SCHELKEN MARK, a town of Transylvania, 4 miles N. of Stoltzenburg. SCHELKOVOIZAVOD, a town of Ruffia, in Saratov, on the Volga: 20 miles NE. of Tzaritzin. SCHELLA, a town of Upper Hungary, with a harbour on the Waag; near a volcano, which burns continually; 25 miles NE. of Presburg. Lon. 17. 40. E. Lat. 48. 32. N. (1.) SCHELLENBERG, a town of Germany, SCHEIDECK, a mountain of Switzerland, in in the circle of the Lower Rhine, and duchy of the canton of Berne; 25 miles SE. of Thun. Weftphalia; 17 miles W. of Brilon. (2.) SCHEL (2.) SCHELLENBERG, a town of Upper Saxony,, in Erzgeburg; fix miles E. of Chemnitz. (3.) SCHELLENBERG, or a town and fort of SCHELLENBurg, Bavaria, famous for a victory obtained by the Brith and imperial troops in 1704, over the French and Bavarians, though ftrongly entrenched. It is 5 miles NNE. of Berchtolfgaden, and 22 W. of Ingoldftadt, Lon. 10. 58. E. Lat. 48 46. N. SCHELLING, an island of Holland, in the department of the Eems, and late province of Frieseland; about 15 miles long, and 3 broad. It lies at the entrance of the Zuyder Zee, between Vlie and Ameland, 15 miles N. of Harlingen. Lon. 5. 10. E. Lat. 52. 20. N. SCHELLINGSHOF, a town of Germany, in Imperial Auftria; four miles NNE. of Bomifch Waidthoven. (1.) SCHELLINKS, William, an eminent Dutch painter, born at Amfterdam in 1631. He painted hiftory and landscapes, but chiefly excelled in fea ports. His chief work is a picture of Charles II. embarking for England, at the restoration; in which is a great number of figures well grouped. He died in 1678. (2.) SCHELLINKS, Daniel, a younger brother of William, was born at Amfterdam in 1633. He was alfo reputed a good landscape painter. He died in 1701. SCHELLKLINGEN, a town of Auftrian Suabia, on the Auch; 8 miles W. of Ulm, and 36 W. of Augsburg. Lon. 27. 24. E. Ferro. Lat. 48. 22. N. SCHEMANAEUSKOI, a town and fort of Ruffia, in Kolivan. Lon. 100. 20. E. Ferro. Lat. 50. 28. N. * SCHEMATIST. n. s. [from scheme.] A projector; one given to forming schemes. SCHEMBERG, a town of Suabia, in Hohen; nine miles ENE. of Rothwell, and 38 SSW. of Stuttgard. * SCHEME. n. s. [oxnua.] 1. A plan; a com bination of various things in view, defign, or purpose; a fyftem.-Were our fenfes made much quicker, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us. Locke. -We shall never be able to give ourselves a fatisfactory account of the divine conduct, without forming fuch a scheme of things as fhall at once take in time and eternity. Atterbury. 2. A project; a contrivance; a design.— He forms the well concerted scheme of mif chief. Rowe. -The haughty monarch was laying schemes for fuppreffing the ancient liberties. Atterbury. The ftoical scheme of fupplying our wants by lopping off our defires, is like cutting off our feet when we want fhoes. Swift. 3. A representation of the afpect of the celeftial bodies; any lineal or mathematical diagram. It hath embroiled aftrology in the erection of schemes. Brown. It is a scheme and face of heaven, As th' afpects are difpofed this even. Hudibras. * SCHEMER. n. s. [from scheme.] A projector; a contriver, (1.) SCHEMNITZ, a town of Upper Hungary, with three caftles. It is famous for mines of filver and other metals, as alfo for hot baths. Near it is a rock of a fhining blue colour mixed with green, and some spots of yellow. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants; of whom nearly 7000 ȧre Protestants. It has two churches, two chapels, and a college. Lon. 19 0 E. Lat. 48′ 40. N. (2.) SCHEMNITZ, high mountains of Upper Hungary, abounding with granite. See MOUNTAIN, 8 (1.) SCHENCK, Martin, an officer born in Guelderland, who diftinguished himself by his bravery, in several brilliant actions during the wars in the Netherlands, in the 16th century; but being a man of no principle, he fought firft for the Spaniards, and afterwards for the Dutch. Attempting to take Nimeguen, he was drowned in the Rhine. See SCHENKENSHANS. (2.) SCHENCK. See SCHENKENSHANS. SCHENCKDENDORF, a town of Lufatia, fix miles S. of Guben. SCHENECTADY, a poft-town of New York, in Albany county, pleasantly feated on the S. bank of the Mohawk, 16 miles NW. of Albany. It contains about 500 houses, an academy named Union College, with a Presbyterian and a German Lutheran church. In 1690 the inhabitants were maffacred by the French and Indians. It is 181 miles from New York, and 277 from Philadelphia. Lon, I 12. E. of that city. Lat. 42. 43. N. SCHENFELD, a town of Germany, in imperial Auftria; to miles WNW. of Drofendorf. "SCHENFELDT, a town of Germany, in Holftein; 7 miles N. of Itzehoa. SCHENGRABEN, a town of Germany, in Auftria; 8 miles NNE. of Ebenfurth. SCHENING, or SKENING, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Gothland, in a fertile country, on the Skena; formerly large and opulent, but now much declined. Its annual fair, however, held 29th July, is ftill one of the greateft in Sweden, It is 8 miles SE. of Waftena, 17 W. of Lickioping, and 45 NNW. of Calmar. Lon. 15. 47. E. Lat. 58. 12. N. SCHENINGEN, a town and diftrict of Lower Saxony, in Wolfenbuttel; 16 miles N. of Halberftadt, and 18 ESE. of Wolfenbuttel. SCHENKAFELD, a town of Germany, in imperial Auftria; 3 miles WNW. of Freuftadt. SCHENKENSHANS, or SCHENCK, a fortrefs of the French empire, in the department of the Roer, and late province of Austrian Guelderland, feated on an angle of land formed by the divifion of the RHINE into two branches, one of which is named the WAHAL. This fort has complete command of the two ftreams, and was built in 1586, by advice and under the direction of Martin Schenck, whofe name it bears, after he had left the Spanish service and joined the Dutch. (See SCHENCK, N° 1.) On the 18th July, 1635, it was taken by the Spaniards, but retaken by the Dutch in April 1636, In 1672 it was taken by Lewis XIV. but reftored to the Dutch in Auguft 1681. It is 24 miles N. of Cleves, and 12 E. of Nimeguen, Lon. 5 26. E. Lat. 51. 55. N. SCHENKIRCHEN, a town of Germany, in imperial Auftria; 8 miles SSW. of Zifterdorf. SCHENKURSK, a town of Ruffia, in the province of Archangel, on the Vaga; 140 miles SSE. of Archangel. Lon. 60. o. E. Ferro Lat. 62. 30. N. SCHENSBURG, a town of New York, on the S. bank of Lake George: 35 miles N. of Albany. SCHEPPENSTADT, a town of Lower Saxony, in Wolfenbuttel: 13 miles E. of Wolfenbuttel. SCHER, a town of Suabia, on the Danube. SCHERARDIA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the tetrandria class of plants. The corolla is monopetalous and funnelfhaped: there are two three-toothed feeds, (1.) SCHERBRO, or SERBORA, a river of Africa, which runs through the country of Sierra Leona, and falls into the fea, in Lon. 1o. 47. W. Lat. 6. 39 N. (2, 3) SCHERBRO, or Macapoye, a fort and ifland of the Atlantic, at the mouth of the above river. SCHERDING, a town of Upper Bavaria, on the Inn, with a fort, fix miles S. of Paffau, and 78 E. of Munich. SCHERDSJE. See SCHAREDJE. SCHERIF, and 》 two mountains of Arabia, in WSW. of Chamir: the latter 8 NE. of Doran. SCHERNEW, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak: 48 miles SW. of Amadan. SCHERPENHEUEL. See MONTAIGU, N° 3. SCHERSTENIKOVA, a town of Ruffia, in Irkutsk, on the Lena: 24 miles S. of Orlenga. SCHESBURG, a town of Transylvania, divided into Upper and Lower Towns; the former has a caftle: 47 miles ESE. of Colofvar, and 120 NE. of Temefvar. Lon. 41. 16. E. Lat. 46. 48. N. SCHESCHMINSK, a town of Ruffia, in Kazan: 60 miles SE. of Kazan. Lon. 68. 20. E. Ferro. Lat. 55. o. N. SCHESEL, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and county of Verdun: 10 miles N. of Rotenburg. SCHESIS. n. s. Loxos.] An habitude; ftate of any thing with refpect to other things.-If that mind which has, exifting in itself from all eternity, all the fimple effences of things, and confequently all their poffible scheses or habitudes, fhould ever change, there would arife a new schefis in the mind, which is contrary to the fuppofition. Norris SCHESSLITZ, a town of Franconia, in Bamberg: 8 miles NE. of Bamberg, and 25 W. of Bayreuth. SCHESTAKOV, a town of Ruffia, in Viatka: 68 miles ENE. of Viatka. SCHESTEN, a town of Pruffia, in Natangen; 54 miles SSE. of Konigsberg, SCHETLAND. See SHETLAND. SCHEUCHZERIA, in botany, LESSER FLOWERING RUSH, a genus of the trigynia order, belonging to the hexandria class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the fifth order, Tripelatoldea. The calyx is fexpartite; there is no corolla, nor are there any styles; there are three inflated and monofpermous capfules. SCHEVE, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland, at the mouth of a river, which runs into Gulf of Virk-fund: famous for horfes. SCHEVELING, a small town of Holland, in the department of Delft: three miles NW. of Hague. SCHEWETZ, a town of Pruffian Pomerelia, on the Viftula: 52 miles S. of Dantzic. SCHHHHAVA, a large mountain of Arabia, in the province of Yemen; on which Mr Niebuhr fays are more than 300 villages, under various schiechs. SCHIAVI a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra : 8 miles SE. of Civita Borella. SCHIAVONA, Andrew, a painter, born at Sebenico, in Dalmatia, in 1522. His parents were fo poor, that they could not procure him a master; but, by being merely employed as a fervant about a painter's fhop, he rofe, in fpite of adverfity, by the force of his own genius to a high degree of excellence. He showed great tafte in his drapery and the attitudes of his figures. He died at Venice in 1582; after which his pictures fold for much more money than he had received for them. Tintoret always kept one of them before him, when painting. SCHIBAM, two towns of Arabia: 1. In Yemen, 16 miles W. of Sana: 2. In Hadramaut, 200 ESE. of Sana, and 100 of Mareb. SCHICKARD, William, profeffor of Hebrew, in the university of Tubingen, was born in 1592. He wrote various learned works; as, 1. A Hebrew Grammar, entitled Horologium Schickardi: 2. De Jure Regio Judæorum; Leipfic, 1674, 4to. 3. Series Regum Perfia; Tubing. 1621, 4to. He died of the plague in 1635, aged 43. SCHIDONE, Bartholomew, an eminent history and portrait painter, born at Modena, in 1560. He ftudied in the school of the Caracci, but adopted the manner of Corregio. His genius was great, but he lost its advantages by gaming. He died in 1616. SCHIE. See SCHIEDAM. SCHIECHS, or SCHEICHS, n. s. among the Arabs, is a name applied to their nobles. “Among the Bedouins," fays Niebuhr," it belongs to every noble, whether of the higheft or the loweft order. Their nobles are very numerous, and compofe in a manner the whole nation; the plebeians are invariably actuated and guided by the fchiechs, who fuperintend and direct in every transaction. The fchiechs, and their subjects, are born to the life of fhepherds and foldiers. The greater tribes rear many camels, which they either fell to their neighbours, or employ them in the carriage of goods, |