Scutari
a town in Albania, capital of the province of the same name, situated on the river Drin, where it is joined by the Boyana, and on the Lake of Scutari, a sheet of water eight miles in length and six miles broad, connected with the Adriatic by the Boyana. Scutari was attacked by the Montenegrins in the Balkan War of 1912, and was by them besieged during the entire period of the war, but was heroically defended by Essad Pasha. Pop. about 32,000.
SCYLLA (sil'la), in classical mythology, a daughter of Nisus, King of Megara. When Minos came from Crete to take vengeance for the death of his son, Androgeos, his efforts to take the city were fruitless as long as the purple lock on the head of Nisus remained unshorn.
Urged by her love for Minos, Scylla cut off the fatal lock, and with it destroyed the life of her father and the safety of the city. According to one version Minos tied Scylla to the stern of his ship and drowned her; but another tale says that she was changed into a fish, which Nisus, transformed into an eagle, constantly pursued. The myth was localized in the names of the port of Nicæa and the promontory Scyllæum. The "Odyssey" (xii. 73) speaks of another Scylla, a daughter of Cratæis, as a monster with SCYLLA 12 feet, six necks, and six mouths, each containing three rows of teeth. This being haunted a rock on the Italian coast; a neighboring rock being tenanted by Charybdis, who thrice every day swallowed the waters of the sea, and thrice threw them up again. Like Medusa, Scylla is represented in some legends as having been beautiful, and as having been changed into a monster through the jealousy of Circe or Amphitrite. SEA greater part of the earth's surface; the ocean. In a more limited sense the term is applied to a part of the ocean which from its position or configuration is looked upon as distinct and deserving of a special name, as the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, etc. The term is also occasionally applied to inland lakes, as the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, etc.
Area. The waters of the sea cover about 130,000,000 square miles, or about two-thirds of the surface of the earth, The areas of the main division of the ocean are estimated as follows: