Shasta

See Sastean. Shasta (shästä), Mount. A mountain-peak in Siskiyou County, California, situated about lat. 41° 25′ N. It is one of the highest peaks in the United States. Height, 14,440 feet. Shastica. See Sastean . Shasu (shä'sö). See the extract. Very distinct from the Phœnicians of Kaft are the Shasu or Bedawin, 'Plunderers,' of the Egyptian monuments. They were the scourge of the settled populations of Canaan, as their descendants are at the present day. We hear of them as existing from the Egyptian frontier up to the north of Palestine, 'the land of the Amorite,' where their place was taken in the fifteenth century before our era by the invading Hittite. They were properly inhabi Shasu tants of the desert, who perpetually hovered on the borders of the cultivated land, taking advantage of every opportunity to harry and plunder it. Sayce , Races of the O. T., р. 105. Shat-el-Arab (shät-el-ä'räb). The i ower course of the Euphrates after its junction with the Tigris. Shattuck (shat'uk), Aaron Draper. Born at France stown, N. H., March 9, 1832. An American landscape-painter. He first exhibited in 1856, and was made a national academician in 1861. Shattuck, Lemuel. Born at Ashby, Ma ., Oct. 15, 1793: died at Boston, Jan. 17, 1859. An American historical and statistical writer. Shaula (sha'lä). [Ar. al - šaula , the sting.] The second-magnitude star A Scorpii, at the extremity of the creature's tail. Shavano (shä-vä'no), Mount. A mountain of the Saguache Mountains, central Colorado. Height, 14,093 feet. Shaw (sha), Henry Wheeler: pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek. Born at Lanes borough, Ma ., April 21,1818: died at Monterey, Cal., Oct. 14, 1885. An American humorist. He published annually "Josh Billings' Farmers' Allminax," and began his career as a lecturer in 1863. His complete works were published in 1877. Shaw, Lemuel. Born at Barns table, Ma ., Jan. 9, 1781: died at Boston, March 30, 1861. A noted American jurist. He was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ma achusetts 1830-60. Shaw, Robert Gould. Born at Boston, Oct. 10, 1837: killed at Fort Wagner, S. C., July 18, 1863. A Union officer in the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in 1861; was promoted captain Aug. 10, 1862; and April 17, 1863, became colonel of the 54th Ma achusetts, the first regiment of colored troops from a free State mustered into the United States service. Shaw an gunk (shong'gum) Mountains. A range of the Appal a chi an system in Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster counties, southeastern New York, extending from New Jersey northeastward. Height, about 2,000 feet. Shawano (sha'wa-no), or Shawnee (sha'nē), or Savannas (sa-van'äz). Atribe of North Ameri can Indians. From their wanderings and the difficulties of identification, their habitat has been much discu ed. They were early known in the Cumber land valley in Tenne ee and on the upper Savannah in South Carolina. About the middle of the 18th century these two bodies, after several changes of homes, were united in the Ohio valley, and were almost constantly at war with the English and afterward with the United States, being under Tecumseh's leadership in the War of 1812. About 1,500 remain, chiefly in the Indian Territory. The name is translated 'southerners,' referring to the fact that for a long period they lived farther south than any of the other Algonquian divisions. See Algonquian . Shawano (sha-wa'nō) Lake. A lake in Shawano County, eastern Wisconsin, 30 miles northwest of Green Bay. Its outlet is by Wolf River into