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Its commerce and manufactures are important, and it is the terminus of various steamship lines. Near it are extensive coal-mines. It is the seat of a mint and of Sydney University. It was settled in 1788 as a convict colony. Population (1891), with suburbs, 383,386. Sydney. A seaport in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, situated on the eastern coast in lat. 46° 16′ N., long. 60° 7' W. It is in the vicinity of a coal-mining region. Population (1901), 9,909. Sydney, Algernon Philip. See Sidney . Syene. See A uan. Syennesis (sī-en'e-sis). [Gr. Συέννεσις .] A king of Cilicia, va al of Persia, at the time of the expedition of Cyrus the Younger 401 B. c. The name is common to all the kings of Cilicia men tioned in history. Sykes (sīks), George. Born at Dover, Del., Oct. 9, 1822: died in Texas, Feb. 9, 1880. An American general. He graduated at West Point in 1842; served in the Mexican and in Indian wars; and was a division and corps commander in the Army of the Potomac. He served with distinction at Gaines's Mill, Gettysburg, etc. Sykes, Mrs.: best known by her maiden name, Olive Logan. Born at Elmira, N. Y., April 16, 1841. An American actre and writer, daughter of Cornel i us A. Logan (1806–53). -53). She made her début in 1854 at Philadelphia, and in 1857 went to England, where she finished her education. She married Henry A. Delille, but was divorced in 1865. In 1864 she appeared in New York in a play of her own, "Eveleen." She retired from the stage in 1868, has devoted herself to lecturing, and has been a frequent contributor to newspapers. She married William Wirt Sykes in 1871: he died in 1884. She has written a number of books, principally about theatrical matters, and several plays. IMG:content-1085.png:[blocks in formation] Sylphide (sel-fēd'), La. A ballet in two acts, music by Schneitzhoffer, libretto by Nourrit. It was produced at Paris in 1832. La Sylphide was one of Taglioni's greatest parts. Sylt, or Silt (silt). An island in the North Sea, belonging to the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Pru ia, intersected by lat. 55° N. It contains the watering-place Wester land. The inhabitants are chiefly Friesians. Length, 22 miles. Population, about 3,000. Sylva (sēl-vä'). A river in the government of Perm, eastern Ru ia, which joins the Tchusovaya near Perm. Length, 250-300 miles. Sylva, Carmen. See Carmen Sylva . Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, etc. A report on the condition of timber in the English dominions, by John Evelyn, published in 1664. Sylvan der (sil-van'der) 'der). The name under which Burns corresponded with Mrs. Macle hose ("Clarinda"). The letters were published in 1802, afterward suppre ed, and republished in 1845. Sylvester (Popes). See Silvester . Sylvester (sil-ves'tėr), James Joseph. Born at London, Sept. 3, 1814: died there, March 15, 1897. A distinguished English mathematician, profe or succe ively at University College, London, at the University of Virginia, at Woolwich, at the Johns Hopkins University, and at Oxford (Savilian profe or 1883). Sylvester Dagger wood (sil-ves'ter dag'erwud). A "whimsical interlude" by George Colman the younger, produced in 1795. There are but two characters - Sylvester Dagger wood, a strolling player, and Fustian, a Grub-street playwright.