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 58 MMCOK rijrht bank of the Volga, 105 ra. 8. 8. W. of Kazan ad i > E. of Moscow ; pop. in 1867, 24,607. It stands in the midst of a wide and tVrtik- plain, and contains 16 church- es, two ooUTento, and a monument to the historian Karamsin. It has manufactories of soap and candles, and an important trade in grain and fish. SIXCOE, Lake. See ONTARIO, vol. xn., p. SIMCOE, a W. county of Ontario, Canada, bounded N. E. by the Severn river, N. W. by Georgian bay, and S. E. by Lake Simcoe; area, 1,846 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 64,247, of whom 31,642 were of Irish, 15,020 of English, 11,585 of Scotch, 3,031 of French, and 1,754 man origin or descent. It is traversed bv the Northern railway. Capital, Barrie. SIMEON, the second son of Jacob and Leah. He and his brother Levi were guilty of gross deception and ferocity in their murder of the Shechemites, for which they received their fa- ther's curse. Simeon's inheritance as a tribe was not a compact territory, but a small dis- trict within the limits of that of Judah, and some tracts in Mount Seir and the district of Gedor. The descendants of Simeon amount- ed at the exodus to 59,800 ; but only 22,200 entered the promised land. SI)IK4, Charles, an English clergyman, born in Reading, Sept. 24, 1759, died Nov. 13, 1836. He was educated at King's college, Cambridge, nnd was presented in 1783 to the living of Trinity church, Cambridge, which he held till Ms death, and was eminently distinguished for devotion to pastoral duty. He published several series of skeleton sermons, forming a commentary upon the whole Bible. They were edited, with his other works, by the Rev. T. H. Home (21 vols., 1832-'3, and many later editions), and his life has been written by the Rev. William Carus (1847). SIMEON 8TYUTES. See STTLITES. SIMFKROPOL, or SIMPHEROPOL (Turk. ATc- metchet a town of European Russia, capital of the government of Taurida, in the Crimea, on the Salghir, 192 m. S. E. of Odessa, and 37 m. N. E. of Sebastopol ; pop. in 1867, 17,797. It stands on a plateau at the foot of lofty hills. '1 part of the town, built by the Tartars, is very irregularly laid out, and has a miserable appearance; the new, built by the Russians, has wide straight streets and a spacious square. SIMLA, a town and the summer capital of i India, in a Himalayan district of the same name belonging to the Ambala division of the Punjaub, 170 m. N. of Delhi; lat. 31 ion. 77 8' E.; pop. in the height of the season, about 15,000 natives and 1,500 Euro- peans. It stands on a long and lofty ridge 7,000 ft. above the sea, amid grand forest and mountain scenery, a few miles S. of the Sutlej. The British government purchased the station from tin- initiv,- st.-ite of Keonthal about 1822, and foopded Simla MM u sanitarium. The cli- mate is for the most part cool, exhilarating, SIMMS and healthful, though there is a heavy rain- fall at the time of the S. W. monsoon, and the difficulties of drainage are considerable. Since 1866 the supreme government of India has been administered during the summer months from Simla, whither the viceroy and all the chief officials retire from Calcutta early in the hot season. It is about 60 m. N. E. of the Punjaub and Delhi railway. The town is an organized municipality, governed by a com- mittee of native and foreign residents. SULHS, William Gilmore, an American author, born in Charleston, S. 0., April 17, 1806, died there, June 11, 1870. For some years he was a clerk in a drug store, but at 18 he began the study of law, and in 1827 was admitted to the bar. From 1828 to 1832 he was edito$ and part proprietor of the " Charleston City Ga- zette," in which he opposed nullification, there- by reducing himself to poverty. He then de- voted himself entirely to literature, living for a time at Hingham, Mass., and afterward prin- cipally on a plantation at Midway, S. C., and occasionally holding public offices. His po- etical works are : a " Monody on the Death of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney " (1825) ; " Lyri- cal and other Poems " and " Early Lays " (1 827) ; "The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and other Po- ems" (1829) ; " The Tricolor, or Three Days of Blood in Paris " (1830) ; " Atalantis, a Story of the Sea" (1833); "Southern Passages and Pictures" (1839); "Donna Anna" (1843); "Grouped Thoughts and Scattered Fancies" (1845); "Lays of the Palmetto "(1848); "Po- ems, Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and Contemplative" (2 vols., 1854); and "Arey- tos, or Songs and Ballads of the South " (1860). A collective edition appeared in 1864. He also edited a volume of "War Poetry of the South" (1867). He produced two dramas, "Norman Maurice, or the Man of the People," and " Michael Bonham, or the Fall of Alamo," and adapted Shakespeare's " Timon of Athens " for the stage, with numerous additions of his own. His works of imaginative fiction com- prise "The Book of my Lady " (1833) ; " Carl Werner " (1838) ; " Confession, or the Blind Heart " (1842) ; " Castle Dismal " (1845) ; " The Wigwam and the Cabin" (1845-'6); "Marie de Bernier " (1853) ; and " Ghost of my Hus- band" (18mo, 1867). His historical romances are : " The Yemassee " (1835) ; " Pelayo" (1838); "Count Julian" (1845); "The Dam- sel of Darien" (1845); "The Lily and the Totem, or the Huguenots in Florida;" "The Maroon and other Tales" (1855); '-'Vascon- celos" (1857); "The Cazique of Kiawah" (1860); and "Swamp Robbers" (1870). The following are founded on revolutionary events : " The Partisan " (1835) ; "Mellichampe " (1836); "The Scout," originally published as "The Kinsmen, or the Black Riders of the Congaree " (1841); "Katharine Walton" (1851); "Wood- craft," originally entitled "The Sword and the Distaff;" "The Forayers, a Raid of the Dog Days" (1855), and its sequel "Eutaw" (1856).