Syzygium
or SIZYGIUM (named from the way in which the branches and leaves are united by pairs); a genus of 1 few scattered tribes, and principally by the Nestorians of Kurdistan and Persia. Syriac literature had its rise in the 1st century of our era. At first it was chiefly connected with theological and ecclesiastical subjects, Biblical translations and commentari commentaries, hymns, martyrologies, liturgies, etc., but in course of time it embraced history, philosophy, grammar, medicine, and the natural sciences. The oldest work in the language still extant is the incomplete translation of the Bible called the Peshito. In addition to the Peshito Version, which was recognized as the authorized version by all the various sects of the Syrian Church, there is one made in the beginning of the 7th century by Paul of Tela, a Monophysite; this is based on the Hexaplar Greek Text, that is, the Septuagint with the corrections of Origen, and is of very great value for the criticism of the Septuagint, supplying as far as a version can the lost work of Origen. Another version, the Syro- Philoxenian, translated by Polycarp under the auspices of Philoxenus, Bishop of Hieranolis (488-518) and revised by a
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Szabadka
a town of Hungary; on the plain that lies between the Danube and the Theiss; 106 miles S. by E. of Budapest. It is the center of a rich agricultural district, with a trade in cattle, skins, wool, corn, fruit, tobacco, etc. Pop. about 94,000. SZABOITE after Prof. J. Szabó, of Budapest), a mineral occurring in minute crystals in cavities of an andesite, Transylvania; crystallization, triclinic ; hardness, 6-7; sp. gr., 3.505; luster, vitreous; color, hair brown to hyacinth-red. Composition: Essentially a silicate of iron and lime. Now shown to be related to hypersthene. a
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Szaibelyite
a mineral occurring in small nodules bristling with acicular crystals in limestone at Werksthal, Hungary; color, externally white, internally yellow. Essentially a hydrousborate of magnesia.
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Szalay
LASZLO, a Hungarian historian; born in Buda, in Buda, Hungary, April tor-in-chief of the "Pesti Hirlap" in 1844. Among his works are "History of Hungary" (6 vols. 1850-1863); "Nicolas Eszterúzy" (1862-1866); and "The Book of Statesmen," a collection of political biographies. He died in Salzburg July 17, 1864. 18, 1813. He succeeded Kossuth as edi-
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Szarvas
a town of Hungary, on the Körös river, 80 miles S. E. of Budapest. A famous breed of horses is cultivated here. Pop. about 28,000. Mostly Slovaks, who, however, speak Hungarian. SZASKAITE (after Szaska, Hungary, where found), an earthy variety of cal- SZE-MA amine (zinc carbonate), stated to contain cadmium.
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Szatmar-Nemeti
a town of Hungary; on both sides of the Szamos; 68 miles E. N. E. of Debreczin; formed in 1715 by the union of Szatmar and Nemet. It manufactures earthenware, canvas, and slibowiz, a kind of brandy distilled from plums. Pop. about 35,000.
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Szechuan
the largest province of China, in the W.; has Tibet on the N. W. and Yunnan on the S. W.; the remaining boundaries are conterminous with various provinces of China; area 218,500 square miles; pop. about 68,725,- 000. It is traversed and watered by the Yang-tsze-Kiang and its affluents, is hilly throughout, mountainous in the W., and rich in natural products, including coal, iron, and other minerals. Opium, silk, salt, sugar, medicines, tobacco, hides, musk, rhubarb, and white wax (produced by an insect) are exported to the annual value of $25,000,000; and European cottons and woolens are imported to the value of $15,000,000 annually. The capital is Ching-tu, the chief commercial town Chung-king, on the Great River, which was opened to foreign trade at the end of 1889. Ichang was thrown open in 1877.
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