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SULINA, a town in Rumania, at the mouth of the Sulina branch of the Danube. Pop. (1900), 5611. Sulina is the only free port on the Danube, and is much used for the transhipment into seagoing vessels of grain which is brought down the river in large lighters fr ...

SUINA, a group of non-ruminating artiodactyle ungulate mammals typified by the swine (Suidae), but also including the hippopotamus (Hippopotamidae), and certain extinct forms. (See ARTIODACTYLA; HIPPOPOTAMUS; PECCARY; SWINE.)

SULCI, an ancient town (mod. S. Antioco), situated on the east coast of an island on the south-west of Sardinia. The date of its f oundationis not known, but it is certainly of Carthaginian origin. The assumption that it was originally an Egyptian colony is no

SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138-78 B.C.), surnamed Felix, Roman general, politician and dictator, belonged to a minor and impoverished branch of the famous patrician Cornelian gens. He received a careful education, and was a devoted student of literature and art.

... orth-west to south-east (Orkney Islands, 1145 hours -26% of the total possible: Sulina. 2411 hours -55%). In the Mediterranean peninsulas the duration is everywhere great — nte*t, so far as the records go, at Madrid, 2908 hours —66 %. Dr lu-rt >•' map illustra ...

... nhabited by the Marri and Bugti tribes. The chief mass of the range is known as SULINA— SULLA Takht-i-Suliman or Solomon's throne. It may be seen on the western horizon from Dera Ismail Khan, a grey, flat-looking rampart rising from the lower line of mountains ...