a town of the Prussian kingdom, province of Westphalia, government and 13 miles N.N.E. of Arnsberg, on a hill near the Sösterbach, an affluent of the Lippe. It is a curious old town, surrounded with lofty walls and moats, and entered by five ancient stately gates. The streets are generally narrow, crooked, and gloomy. Soest is remarkable for its old churches, of which there are no

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1 Plato, Apol. Soc. 31, a. Op. i. 72. 2 Ibid. Πολλοὶ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ἀπολογεῖσθαι, ὡς τις ἂν ὑπάρχῃ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῷ ἐμῷ ἔργῳ, μὴ ἐξαμήχανη περὶ τὴν τῶν ἁγίων ἀπόδοσιν ἐμοῦ, ἢ ἐκεῖνον ἐπιστρέφοντα. R. 71. 3 Alcib. ii. p. 150, d. Πότε ἂν περίστατο ὁ χρόνος ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀλκιβίαδου; καὶ τίς ὁ ποικίλος; ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀλκιβίαδου ἤδη ἂν ἦν ἡ ἀπόδοσις τῶν ἁγίων ἐπιστρέφοντα. Ἐν τῷ Ἀλκιβίαδε, ἢ ἐκεῖνον ἐπιστρέφοντα. Ὁρ. v. p. 160. fewer than ten; many of them in a very neglected condition. Three especially have much interest; the cathedral, an unaltered Romanesque edifice of the eleventh and twelfth centuries; the Wiesen-kirche, in the Gothic style, founded in 1314, completed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and restored in 1850; and the church of St Peter, partially Romanesque and partially Gothic in its architecture. Soest has also a gymnasium, normal seminary, orphan hospital, courts of law, and public offices. Linen cloth, hats, hosiery, paper, and leather, are manufactured here; and a considerable trade is carried on in corn. Soest was in the middle ages the largest and most important town in Westphalia. Wealthy and strongly fortified, it was one of the chief members of the Hanseatic league. It was subject to the archbishops of Cologne, until it was incorporated in 1449 with the county of Mark. Soest was the birth-place of the celebrated painter, Sir Peter Lely. Pop. 9648.