Sea Snipe

See Bellows Fish, and Pipe Fish.

Sea Spider

I. See Spider Crab. II. The common name of certain marine arachnids of the order podosomata. They have no respiratory organs, and only four pairs of legs, which in some forms attain an extraordinary length; they are grotesque-looking, and are found at low water on stones or marine plants, or attached as parasites to other animals.

Sea Squirt

Sea Squirt, a name popularly given to the single ascidians or tunicates, from their power of forcibly ejecting water from their muscular sacs. (See Molluscoids).

Sea Swallow

See Tern.

Sea Unicorn

See Narwhal.

Sea Urchin

See Echinus.

Sea Weeds

See AlgAE.

Sea Wolf

See Wolf Fish.

Seal Engraving

See Gem, vol. vii., p. 663.

Seal Fishery

See Seal.

Searcy

Searcy, a N. county of Arkansas, intersected by the Buffalo fork of White river; area in 1870, about 950 sq. m., subsequently reduced by a portion taken to form Stone county; pop. in 1870, 5,614, of whom 30 were colored. The surface is hilly and the soil productive. Extensive forests cover a large portion of the county. The chief productions in 1870 were 21,961 bushels of wheat, 263,812 of Indian corn, 11,852 of oats, 25,008 lbs. of tobacco, 4,389 of wool, and 2,180 bales of cotton. There were 1,512 horses, 200 mules and asses, 1,619 milch cows, 2,886 other cattle, 2,711 sheep, and 15,682 swine. Capital, Marshall.

Seargent Smith Premiss

Seargent Smith Premiss, an American orator, born in Portland, Me., Sept. 30, 1808, died near Natchez, Miss., July 1, 1850. He graduated at Bow-doin college in 1826, and commenced the study of law, but in 1827 went to Natchez, where he supported himself as tutor in a private family. He was admitted to the bar in 1829, and in 1832 removed to Vicksburg, where he was elected in 1835 to the state legislature, and in 1838 to congress. He took little part in the business or debates of the house, but maintained his reputation as an orator by a speech against the sub-treasury bill. He strongly opposed the repudiation of the state debt of Mississippi, and in 1845, partly in dissatisfaction with the course adopted, he removed to New Orleans, where he passed the remainder of his life, going to Natchez in his last illness. A "Memoir of S. S. Prentiss" has been edited by his brother, George L. Prentiss, D. D. (2 vols., New York, 1855).

Sebaste

See Samaria.

Sebastian

Sebastian, a W. county of Arkansas, bounded W. by the Indian territory and N. by the Arkansas river; area, about 600 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 12,940, of whom 1,354 were colored. The Poteau hills, a southern offshoot of the Ozark mountains, traverse a part of the county, and are rich in minerals. The soil is well adapted to grazing and the production of grain and cotton. Bituminous coal is abundant. The chief productions in 1870 were 18,518 bushels of wheat, 362,019 of Indian corn, 16,084 of oats, 25,453 of sweet and 13,703 of Irish potatoes, 2,215 bales of cotton, 28,289 lbs. of tobacco, 3,494 of wool, 142,347 of butter, 11,675 gallons of sorghum molasses, and 1,099 tons of hay. There were 3,060 horses, 670 mules and asses, 4,284 milch cows, 1,040 working oxen, 5,437 other cattle, 2,788 sheep, and 35,848 swine. Capital, Greenwood.