a river of Scotland, rises from a lake of the same name in Badenoch, and after a serpentine course of seventy-six miles, passes by Rothes castle, and falls into the German ocean at Garnoch near Elgin.

SPHERE is a solid contained under one uniform round surface, every point of which is equally distant from a certain point in the middle called its centre; and is formed by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter.