Scratch meal Scar, in Cumberland--_v._ SKAER, 175 Scutari, in Albania, corrupt. from _Scodra_, hill town Scutari, in Turkey, from _Uskudar_, Pers. a messenger, having been in remote periods, what it is to this day, a station for Asiatic couriers Sebastopol, 158 Sedlitz, 174 Segovia, anc. _Segubia_, probably the plain on the river-bend; _ce_, a plain, and _gubia_, a bend Selby, 173 Selinga, 173 Semipalatinsk, 152 Senlis, 173 Sens, named from the _Senones_ Seringapatam, 153 Settle, 173 Seville, Phœn. _Sephala_, a marshy plain Sevres, named from the two rivers which traverse it, anc. _Villa Savara_ Shamo, Chinese, the desert Shan--_v._ SEANN, 172 Shanghai, supreme court Shansi, west of the mountain Shantung, east of the mountain Sherborne, 172 Shetland Islands, 104 Shields, 170 Shiraz, 174 Shirvan, said to have been named after Nieshirvan, a king of Persia Shotover, corrupt. from _Chateauvert_, green castle Shrewsbury--_v._ Salop Sicily, named from the _Siculi_, a tribe Sidlaw Hills, fairy hills--_v._ SIDH Sidon--_v._ Saida, in Index. Silesia, Sclav. _Zlezia_, the bad land Silhet or Sirihat, the rich market Silloth Bay, perhaps herring bay, _sil_, Norse, a herring, and _lod_, a bundle of fishing lines Sion or Sitten, 174 Sion, Mount, the upraised Skagen, Cape, 176 Skager-rack, 176 Skaw Cape, 176 Skipton, 176 Skye Island, Gael. _Ealan-skianach_, the winged island Slamanan, 177 Sligo, named from the R. _Sligeach_, shelly water Sluys, 171 Slyne Head, 46 Snäfell Mountain, 78 Snaith, 177 Snowdon Mountain, 70 Socotra, 65 Soissons, named from the _Suessiones_ Sokoto, the market-place Soleure, corrupt. from St. Ours or Ursinus, to whom the church was dedicated Solway Firth, according to Camden, was named from a small village in Scotland called Solam Somerset, 173 Sommariva, the summit of the bank Somogy, Hung. the place of cornel-trees Sophia, Grk. wisdom, dedicated to the second person of the Trinity Sorbonne, named from Robert de Sorbonne, almoner of St. Louis Söst or Soest, 174 Soudan--_v._ BELED Southampton, 194 Southwark, 206 Souvigny, 173 Spa, 82 Spalatro, 152 Sparta, Grk. the sowed land or the place of scattered houses Spires or Speyer, named from the R. Speyerbach Spitzbergen, 156 Spurn Head, the look-out cape, from _spyrian_, to look out St. Alban’s Head, corrupt. from St. Aldhelm’s Head St. Andrews, so named from a tradition that the bones of St. Andrew were brought to that place by St. Regulus: formerly called _Mucros_, the boar’s headland, and then Kilrymont, the church or cell of the king’s mount St. Cloud for St. Hloddwald