Sileis. a town of Portugal, in Algarve, on a
river of the same name, 35 m. W. N. W. of Ta-
virs.

Simancas, a town of Spain, in Valladolid, with a
strong castle, in which Philip II. ordered the
archives of the kingdom to be kept. It is situate
on the Douro, 10 m. S. W. of Valladolid and 60
N. E. of Salamanca.

Simbmsk, a government of Russia, formerly a
province of the kingdom of Kasan. It has an
area of 30,000 sq. m., with 850,000 inhabitants,
the greater part of whom profess the religion of
the Greek church. The capital, of the same name
is seated on the Volga, 100 m. S. by. W. of Ka-
san. Long. 43. 34. E., lat. 54. 22. N.

Simeoe, a lake of Upper Canada, communicat-
ing with Lake Huron.

Simi, the ancient Syme, an island in the Med-
iterranean, between the island of Rhodes and the
continent, in a bay of its name. It has a town,
cantaining about 2,000 houses, built near the sum-
mit of a high rocky mountain, 12 m. N. W. of
Rhodes. Long. 27. 23. E., lat. 36. 35. N.

Simmern, a town of Prussia, in the province of
Lower Rhine ; seated on a river of the same name,
25 m. S. of Coblentz.

Simmonsville, p.v. Coshocton Co. Ohio. 100 m.
N. E. Columbus.

Simogay, a town of Hindoostan, in Mysore,
district of Bednore, with a manufacture of coarse
cotton cloth. Tippo Sultan was defeated near
this place by the Mahrattas, aided by a detach-
ment of British, in 1790. It is seated on the Tun-
ga, 34 E. by N. of Nagara.

Simonthurn, or Simontomya, a town of Hunga-
ry, with a strong castle, taken from the Turks in
1*686. It is seated on the Sarvita, 32 m. S. S. W.
of Buda. Long. 18. 52. E., lat. 46. 45. N.

Simplon, a mountain of the Alps between Swit-
zerland and Italy, through which a road was cut
hy Napoleon. This stupendous and magnificent
works is 36 m. in length, and was completed in
1805; it consists in many places of galleries or
tunnels, cut though the solid rock of the moun-
tain. There are 22 bridges thrown over rivers
and torrents. The ascent of the road is so easy
that carriages may pass its whole extent without
locking the wheels. The highest part of the
road is about 6,000 feet.

Simpson, a county of Kentucky. Pop. 6,099.
Franklin is the capital.

Simpsonville, p.v. Shelby Co. Ken.; p.v.
Montgomery Co. Maryl.

Simsbury, ph. Hartford Co. Conn. 14 m. N.
W. Hartford. Pop. 2,221.

Simsonville, p.v. Laurens Dis. $. C.

Sinai, a mountain of Arabia Petrea, in penin-
sula formed by the two arms of the Red Sea.
The Mahometans ho-ld it in great veneration;
and here the Greek Christians have a monastery,
surrounded by a high wall, and those who go in
and out are drawn up and let down in baskets.
Long. 34.15. E.. lat. 29. 2. N.

Sincapour, an island at the southern extremity
of the peninsula of Malaya, from which it is sepa-
rated by a narrow channel, and to the S. it gives
name to the narrow sea, called the strait of Sin-
capour. It has a town of the same name. Long.
103 15. E., lat. 1. 10. N.

Sinde, a river of Asia. See Indus.

Sindelfingen, a town of Germanv, in the king-
dom of W'urtemberg, 10 m. S. S. W. of Stut-
gard

Sindy, or Sinde, a pro vinca of Hindoostan
bounded on the W. hy Persia, N. by the terri-
tories of the king of Kandahar, N. E. by those of
the Seiks, E. by a sandy desert, and S. E. by
Cutch. It extends along the course of the In-
dus, from its mouth to the frontiers of Moultan,
300 m.; and its breadth, in the widest part, is
160. In soil, and climate, and the general ap-
pearance of the surface, it resembles Egyptxe2x80x94the
country being an extended valley, confined on
one side by a ridge of mountains, and on the
other by a desert; and the Indus, equal at east
to the Nile, winding through the midst of this
level valley, and enriching it by its annual inun-
dations. During great part of the S. W. mon-
soon, or at least in July, August, and part of
September (the rainy season in most other parts
of India) the atmosphere is here generally cloud-
ed ; but no rain falls, except near the sea. Ow
ing to this, and the neighbourhood of the sandy
deserts on the E. and on the N. W., the heats
are so violent, and the winds from those quarters
so pernicious, that the houses are contrived so
as to be occasionally ventilated by apertures on
the top,resembling the funnels of small chimneys.
When the hot winds prevail, the windows are
closely shut, excluding the hottest current of air,
and a cooler part descends into the house through
the funnels. By this means are also excluded
vast clouds of dust, the entrance of which would
alone be sufficient to render the houses uninhab-
itable. The roofs are composed of thick layer
of earth instead of terraces. Few countries are
more unwholesome to European constitutions,
particularly the lower part called the Delta. The
Hindoos, who were the original inhabitants of
Sindy, have been treated with great rigor by
the Mahometan governors, and vast numbers
have in consequence retired into other countries.
The inland parts of Sindy produce saltpetre, sal-
ammoniac, borax, bezoar, lapis-lazuli, and raw
silk. Here are manufactures of cotton and silk
of various kihds ; and also of fine cabinets, inlaid
with ivory, and finely lacquered. Great quanti-
ties of butter are exported, which is clarified and
wrapt up in duppas, made of the hides of cattle.
Here are large beeves, fine sheep, and small har-
dv horses. The wild game are deer, hares, an-
telopes, and foxes, which are hunted with dogs ;
also leopards, and a small fierce creature called
a siahgosh. This province is now governed by
three chiefs, called ameers, tributary to the sul-
tan of Kandahar. The Bombay government sent
an embassy to the chiefs in 1808; and the E. In
dia Company have now a native agent, or charg d’
affaires, residing at the fort of Hydrabad.