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Sandemani-tlon of it, and who took the denomination of Sandema-
ans nians, formed themfelves into church order, in flridl
S3ni|^i fellowfhip with the churches in Scotland, but holding
0 cum. no kind of communion with other churches. 1 he chief
»——yi I opinions and pradlices in which this fe£l difters from
other Chriftians, are, their weekly adminiftration of the
Lord’s Supper ; their love-featfs, of which every mem¬
ber is not only allowed but required to partake, and
which confift of their dining together at each others
houfes in the interval between the morning and after¬
noon fervice *, their kits of charity ufed on this occafion,
at the admifiion of a new member, and at other times,
when they deem it to be neceffary or proper j their
weekly colledtion before the Lord’s Supper, for the fup-
port of the poor, and defraying other expences 5 mutual
exhortation; abllinence from blood and things ftrang-
led; walking each other’s feet, the precept concerning
which, as well as other precepts, they underftand lite¬
rally ; community of goods, fo far as that every one is
to confider all that he has in his pofleflion and power as
liable to the calls of the poor and church; and the un-
lawfulnefs of laying up treafures on earth, by fetting
them apart for any dillant, future, and uncertain ufe.
They allow of public and private diverfions, fo far as
they are not conne&ed with circumftances really finful;
but apprehending a lot to be facred, difapprove of play¬
ing at cards, dice, &c. They maintain a plurality of
elders, pallors, or bilhops, in each church ; and the ne-
eeflity of the prefence of two elders in every aft of dif-
cipline, and at the adminiftration of the Lord’s Supper.
In the choice of thefe elders, want of learning, and
engagements in trade, &c. are no fufficient objeftion ;
but fecond marriages difqualify for the office ; and they
are ordained by prayer and falling, impofttion of hands,
and giving the right hand of fellowlhip. In their dif-
cipline they are ilrift and fevere; and think themfelves
obliged to feparate from the communion and worlhip of
all fuch religious focieties as appear to them not to pro-
fefs the ftmpie truth for their only ground of hope, and
who do not walk in obedience to it. We lhall only add,
that in every church tranfaftion,they efteem unanimity
to be abfolutely neceffary. From this abftraft of the
account which they have publilhed of their tenets and
praftices, it does not feem to be probable that their
number Ihould be very confiderable.
SANDERS, a dye wood. See Saunders.
SANDIVER, an old name for a whitilh fubftance
which is thrown up from the metal, as it is called, of
which glafs is made ; and, fwimming on its furface, is
Ikimmed off.
Sandiver is alfo plentifully ejefted from volcanoes;
fome is of a fine white, and others tinged bluilh or yel-
lowilh.
Sandiver is faid to be detergent, and good for foul-
neffes of the Ikin. It is alfo ufed by gilders of iron.
SANDIX, a kind of minium, or red lead, made of
cerufe, but much inferior to the true minium.
SANDOMIR, a city, the capital of a palatinate of
the fame name, in Little Poland, on the Viftula. The
Swedes blew up the caftle in 1656; and here, in 1659,
was a dreadful battle between the Tartars and Ruffians.
It is 84 miles fouth-eaft of Cracow. Lat. 49. 26.
Long. 20. 10.
S ANDORICUM, a genus of plants belonging to the
A,
decandria clafs; and in the natural method ranking un- Sandoru
der the 23d order, Trihilatce. See Botany Index. o'm
SANDPU, or Santoo, the vulgar name of a river SJ,
in the Eaft Indies, which is one of the largeft in the 1 ^
world ; but it is better known by that of Burrampooter.
Of this moft majeftic body of waters we have the fol¬
lowing very animated account in Maurice’s Indian An¬
tiquities. “ An objeft equally novel and grand now
claims our attention ; fo novel, as not to have been
known to Europeans in the real extent of its magnifi¬
cence before the year 1765, and fo awfully grand, that
the aftonilhed geographer, thinking the language of
profe inadequate to convey his conception, has had re-
courfe to the more expreffive and energetic language uf
poetry : but
————Scarce the Mufe herfelf
Dares ftretch her wing o’er this enormous mafs
Of ruffling waters ; to whofe dread expanfe,
Continuous depth, and wond’rous length of courfe,
Our floods are rills.
“ This ftupendous objeft is the Burrampooter, a word
which in Shanfcrit fignifies the fan of Brahma; for no
meaner origin could be affigned to fo wonderful a pro¬
geny. This fupreme monarch of Indian rivers derives
its fource from the oppofite fide of the fame mountain
from which the Ganges fprings, and taking a bold
fweep towards the eaft, in a line direftly oppofite to the
courfe of that river, waffles the vaft country of Tibet,
where, by way of diftinftion, it is denominated Sanpoo,
or the river. Winding with a rapid current through
Tibet, and, for many a league, amidft dreary deferts
and regions remote from the habitations of men, it wa¬
ters the borders of the territory of Laffa, the refidence
of the grand Lama ; and then deviating with a come¬
tary irregularity, from an eaft to a fouth-eaft courfe,
the mighty wanderer approaches v'ithin 200 miles of the
weftern frontiers of the vaft empire of China. From
this point its more direft path to the ocean lay through
the gulf of Siam ; but with a defultory courfe peculiar
to itfelf, it fuddenly turns to the weft through Affam,
and enters Bengal on the north-eaft quarter. Circling
round the weftern point of the Garrow mountains, the
Burrampooter now takes a fouthern direftion ; and for
60 miles before it meets the Ganges, its fifter in point
of origin, but not its rival in point of magnitude, glides
majeftically along in a ftream which is regularly from
four to five miles wide, and but for its frefhnefs, Mr
Rennel fays, might pals for an arm of the fea. About
40 miles from the ocean thefe mighty rivers unite their
ftreams; but that gentleman is of opinion that their
junftion was formerly higher up, and that the aecumit-
lation of two fuch vaft bodies of water, fcooped out the
amazing bed of the Megna lake. Their prefent con¬
flux is below Luckipoor ; and by that confluence a body
of frefti running water is produced, hardly equalled, and
not exceeded, either in the old or the new hemifphere.
So ftupe.ndous is that body of Water, that it has formed
a gulf of fuch extent as to contain irlands that rival our
Ifle of Weight in fize and fertility ; and with fuch refift-
lefs violence does it rufh into the ocean, that in thfc
rainy feafon the fea itfelf, or at leaft its furface, is per-
feftly frefti for many leagues out.”
SANDS, Goodwin, or Godwin, are dangerous fand
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