Senegal (sen-e-gâl')

A river in western Africa, formed by the union of the Bafing and Bakhoy. It flows generally northwest and west, and empties into the Atlantic about lat. 16° N. Length, about 1,000 miles; - navigable to Mafu, and in the rainy season to Médine. Sénégal (sā-nā-gäl'). A colony in western Africa, - belonging to France. Capital, St. Louis. It lies mainly south of the river Senegal, and extends eastward to ☐ the upper Niger valley. Various native states in the vicinity are under a French protectorate. The inhabitants are mostly negroes. It became a French colony in the 17th century; ✓ was twice held temporarily by the British; and was greatly developed under Faidherbe in 1854 and succeeding years. Sene gambia (sen-e-gam'bi-ä). [From Sene ( gal ) and Gambia.] A region in western Africa, exding along the Atlantic coast south of the tending along Sahara (from which it is partly separated by the Senegal) to Sierra Leone, and eastward to the upper Niger valley. The surface in the interior is table-land. The principal rivers are the Senegal and Gambia. It is divided between the French (colony of Senegal), English (Gambia, etc.), and Portuguese (Bi agos - Archipelago, etc.). See also Sudan , French . Senior (sē'nyor), Na au William. Born at Compton, Berks hire, England, Sept. 26, 1790: died at Kensington, June 4, 1864. An English political economist and critic. At Magdalen College, Oxford, he was a private pupil of Richard Whately (afterward archbishop of Dublin). He graduated in 1811; was called to the bar in 1819; and became master in chan cery in 1836. From 1825 to 1830 he was profe or of pol it. ical economy at Oxford. He filled the chair again 1847-52. In 1861 he was a commi ioner of popular education. He published "An Outline of the Science of Political Econ omy" (1836), a lecture on the "Production of Wealth" (1847), "Suggestions on Popular Education" (1861), "American Slavery" (1862), "E ays on Fiction" (1864), "Historical and Philosophical E ays" (1865), and many lectures and e ays on economic subjects, and journals of travels. Senkereh (sen'ke-re). A place on the site of the ancient Chaldean city Larsa. See Ellasar . Tablets containing lists of squares and cubes of numbers ✔ have been found in the ruins.