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Rh   SEDULIUS,, a of the, was the author of an  Hymnus de Christo in , portions of which maintain their ground in the  of the , viz., in the   “A solis ortus cardine," and in that for  (altered from “Herodes hostis impie”). His other works are Paschale Carmen s. Mirabilium Divinorum Libri V., originally in four or five  in   and afterwards enlarged and turned into , and Veteris et Novi Testamenti Collatio, in . De Verbi Incarnatione, a ian , has also been ascribed to him, but on insufficient grounds. Of his personal  nothing is known, except that he is called a  by Isidore of ; by some other writers of less authority he is designated “antistes” or “.” A - origin has sometimes been claimed for him; but at all events he must not be confounded with Sedulius the , an   who lived in the . The best edition of his works is that of Arevalus (4to, , ).  SEDUM. About 120 are enumerated in this of, mostly   with succulent  of varied form, but never compound. The individual are usually small and grouped in. In they range from white and yellow to pink. They have a of five, as many, usually ten , and five distinct, which have as many at their base and ripen into as many dry. Several are, including some with ous  and large  (Telephium), and others of smaller size, chiefly found on s, s, and dry banks. Many are for the beauty of their, and many are remarkable for their prolonged vitality under adverse circumstances. Sedums are very closely allied to.  SEELAND. See.  SÉES, a of and a ’s, in the  of, is situated on , 4 s from its source and 13 s north of  by the  from  to. The very fine, dating to a large extent from the and , occupies the site of  founded in , , and. The west front has two stately of open work 230  high, which have been restored more than once in the. The, in , was remodelled in its upper portion fifty or sixty s after its erection; the ,  about  and restored in  after a great , is remarkable for the lightness of its , the inner  of the  being the boldest venture ever made in this kind. In the are four  of great beauty and delicacy representing scenes in the life of ; and the  is adorned with another depicting the removal of the  of  and. Most of the  are good. Around the are the s of the ; the  , with a pretty ; the great , located in the old  of  (supposed to be one of the fourteen or fifteen  founded in the  by ); the ; and the  of , a member of the  of. The of Sées was 3483 in, and that of the  4687.

1em  SEETZEN, (–), one of the most distinguished of modern travellers in, was born the son of a, in the little lordship of in  , on 30th. His father, who was a man of substance, sent him to the of, where he graduated in. His chief interests, however, were in and ; he wrote a number of papers on both these subjects which gained him some reputation, and had both in view in a series of journeys which he made from time to time through various parts of  and. He also engaged practically in various small, and in obtained a  post in. In, however, the interest which he had long felt in  had culminated in a resolution to travel by  to  and , and then, when familiarized with  ways, to try to penetrate into. He relied mainly on his own resources, but received a small from, where also he learned from  to make. In the of  he started down the  with a companion Jacobsen, who broke down at. His journey was by, where he stayed six , thence through to , then again through the heart of  to , where he remained from   to  , and made himself sufficiently at home with  and ways to travel as a native and without an. Now began the part of his travels of which a full journal has been (  to  ), a series of most instructive journeys in eastern and western  and the wilderness of, and so on to  and the. His chief exploit was a tour round the, which he made without a companion and in the disguise of a. From he went by  to  and reached  as a  in. In he made extensive journeys, ranging from  to  and returning to, from which place his last  to  were written in. In of  he left  with the hope of reaching, and was found dead two s later, having, it is believed, been ed by the command of the  of. For the parts of Seetzen’s journeys not covered by the journal (Reisen, ed. Kruse, 4vols.,, ) the only  records are a series of  and papers in Zach’s Monatliche Correspondenz and Hammer’s Fundgruben. Many papers and collections were lost through his death or never reached. The collections that were saved form the Oriental and the chief part of the Oriental MSS. of the  in.  SE-GAN FOO, the capital of the of  in north-western, is situated in 34° 17′N. and 108° 58′E. Like most, Se-gan Foo has repeatedly changed its  during its , which dates 