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Schuyler Lake

a small lake in Otsego co., N. Y. Its outlet is the Susquehanna river. It is about 8 miles N. W. of Cooperstown and is 24 miles S. E. of Utica; length 5 miles.

Schuylkill

a river of Pennsylvania, which rises in the N. side of the Blue Mountains, runs S. E., passes through the confines of Philadelphia, and unites with the Delaware 5 miles below that city. It is 120 miles long.

Schuylkill Haven

a borough of Pennsylvania, in Schuylkill co., on the Schuylkill river, and on the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Lehigh Valley railroads. Its industries include car shops, underwear and shoe factories, rolling mills, and pip mills.

Pop. (1910) 4,747; (1920) 5,437.

Schwerin

the capital of the republic of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. It is situated on Lake Schwerin, 38 miles S. E. of Lubeck. It has many handsome buildings, among them a fourteenth century Gothic cathedral, containing the ducal tombs, and the former Grand Ducal Palace. The manufactures are machinery, dyes, pianos, bricks, and furniture. Pop. about 45,000.

Schwerte

a town of the province of Westphalia, Prussia. It stands 53 miles N. E. of Cologne, and has some interesting buildings, among them a Romanesque church with carved interior and ancient stained-glass windows. The industries include iron wares and machinery. Pop. about 14,000.

Scidmore

ELIZA RUHAMAH, an American writer, born at Madison, Wis., in 1856. She was educated privately and for many years served as foreign secretary of the National Geographic Society. Her writings include "Guide to Alaska and the Northwest Coast" (1890); "Java, the Garden of the East" (1897); "China, the Long-Lived Empire" (1900); and "As The Hague Ordains" (1907).

Score

in music, compositions for several voices or instruments, or for an orchestra, so written that each part has a separate staff for itself, these staves being placed over each other, bar corresponding for bar. SCORIÆ, the cinders and slags of volcanoes, more or less porous from the the expansion of the gases contained in the melted materials.

SCOR

Scotia

the Latin name of Scotland, said to be derived from Queen Scota, the wife of a King of Ireland, who is thought to have invaded Scotland in 258 A. D.

Previous to this event the land was known as CALEDONIA (q. v.). the island of Great Britain; separated

Scott

HUGH STOWELL, an English novelist, writing under the pen-name of Henry Seton Merriman. He was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1862. His stories of adventure were widely read.

They include "Phantom Future" (1889); "Slave of the Lamp" (1892); "With Edged Tools" (1894); "Velvet Glove" (1901) "The Vultures" (1902). He died in 1903.

Scottdale

a borough of Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland co., on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. It is the center of an important coke industry, and it has also steel and iron mills, brass works, silver works, a casket factory, machine shops, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,456; (1920) 5,768.

Sea Kale

Crambe maritima, a perennial cruciferous herb, a species of colewort, called also sea cabbage. It is a native of the seacoasts of Europe, and is much cultivated in gardens as a table vegetable.

Sealing Wax

a composition for sealing or securely fastening letters of colored with vermilion, lamp-black, white packets. Sealing wax made of resin, and colored with vermilion, lamp-black, white lead, or orpiment, was made in the 16th century.