APPENDIX, N«. IV, 



COMMERCI/ 



River Adiir, much reduced bv the encroachments 

 of the fea, has little trade, except in niipbuilding. 

 The river is navigable for (hips only at high wa- 

 ter ; but barges go as high as Eton, above Steyn- 

 ing, to bring down timber for the fliipbuilders. 



Ehrevvsburv, (Shrop. E.) a large, handfome, 

 and flourilhing, town, almoft environed by the 

 Severn, upon which river it has a good deal of 

 carrying trade. A confiderrble quantity of WeHh 

 cottons (or coatings^, frizes, and flannels, are 

 fold at the weekly market. 



SiDMOUTH, (Dev. E.J once a confiderable port 

 on the Channel, is reduced, by the fand driven^in- 

 to the mouth of its river, to a fifhing village and 

 bathing place. 



SiLLEY, or SciLLY, (Coru. E.J a clufter of 

 little iflands, fituated to the vvellward of the 

 tand's end, and furrounded by innumerable rock?, 

 very dangerous to homevv'ard-bound veflels. In 

 the chief iOand, called S'. Maiy's, there is a fmaU 

 town, called Hughtown. Silley is ranked as a 

 port by the ciillom-houfe, and has a few fmall 

 veflels. The iflands fpare a little barley for ex- 

 portation. 



SiLVERMiNEs, ('Ti/>. I.J an inland village with 

 very produftive mines of lead, wherein virgin filver 

 has been found. 



Skerries, {^Dub. /.) a village with a fmall 

 made harbour, the inhabitants of which are mofl;- 

 ly employed in iifliing for the Dublin market. 



Skibo, {Suth. S.) a new village with a cotton 

 manufactory, ellabliflied by Mr. Dempller of Dun- 

 nichen together with Mr. Dale and other gentle- 

 men of Glafgow, cliiefly for the patriotic purpofe 

 of introducing induftry and independence in a part 

 of the country hitherto deprived of thofe invigor- 

 ating principles of felicity. 



Skipton, (Tori, tV. R.) a large and handfome 

 town. The chief branches of induftry are forting 

 and combing wool, and, after it is fpun at the 

 mills of Linton and Addingham, weaving it into 

 calimancoes, and various fluffs. There are alfo 

 fome cotton mills in Skipton and the neighbour- 

 hood. 



Slane"^ (MeiUh, /.) a neat village on the River 

 Boyne, with a manufafture of coarfe linens. 



Sligo, the capital of the county of the fame 

 name, a confiderable town, containing above 8,ooo 

 people, with a good harbour at the head of a bay 

 opening to the Atlantic ocean. Though ranked 

 as a port by the cullom-houfe^ it has few veflels ; 

 but there is fome foreign as well as coafling trade, 

 which has been increafing for fome time. Corn 

 and flower, linen, together with fome beef, pork 

 and butter, are the principal articles of export- 

 ation. The Unen manufadlure is very flourilhing 

 here and in the neighbouring country. 



Snaith, {Tori, W. R.) a fmall town, fituat- 

 ed on the River Aire, and near the junftion of all 

 the principal branches of the H umber, by the 

 navigation of which the place has a good deal of 

 bufinefs. 



SoDBVRY, {Gtotic. E.) a town chiefly noted for 

 the great quantity of cheefe fold at its market. 



So HO, {Staff. E.J about two miles from Bir- 

 mingham, is an ellabliftiment of extenfive ^nd 

 magnificent works and dwelling houfes, ereded 

 by Mr. Boulton on a barren heath, upon which, 

 not many years ago, flood a folitary hut, occupied 

 by a warrer.-keepcr. At thefe works everv opera- 

 tion upon metals of every kind is conducted, in a 

 manner aftonifliingly expeditious and accurate, by 

 machinery, afluated partly by water, but chiefly 

 by the greatly-improved fleam engines, invented 

 by Mr. Watt, who about the year 1775 entered 

 into partnerfliip with Mr. Boulton. Among the 

 produftions of the Soho works, which are amaz- 

 ingly diverlified, arc — Buttons of every kind of 

 metal, covered with gold or lilver, or uncovered ; 

 and buttons of mother of pearl, &c. — Silver, and 

 plated, ware in all the endlefs variety of forms 

 and ufes — Medals — Coins, of which the new cop- 

 per money, now circulating, is a fpecimen : from 

 thirty to forty thoufand of them are iriade in an 

 hour ; and gold, and filver, coins can be made m 

 the fame manner — Clocks with only one wheel — 

 Toys, an infinite variety, made of gold, filver, 

 fteel, copper, turtle-fliell, vitreous and metallic 

 compofitions — Machines for copying wiiting — But 

 the moll important articles of the whole are the 

 fleam engines, applicable to every mechanical pur- 

 pofe, and having various powers, equivalent to the 

 force of from i to 200 horfes. 



It is proper to obferve, that the vaft number 

 of people employed in thefe works are all dilling- 

 uiflied by their orderly conduft and cleanlinefs, 

 and that none of them ever came upon the parifli, 

 the whole of them being aflbciated, under the 

 the aufpices of the proprietors, in an Infurance fo- 

 e'lely, divided into clafles according to the earnings 

 of the individuals, for the fupport of fuch of them 

 as may become mcapable of earning their bread, 

 on a fcale proportioned to the contributions. 

 The ellablilhment and fuperintendence of this fo- 

 ciety is infinitely more beneficent than eleemofynary 

 penlions to the fuperannuated and difabled work- 

 people, paid out of the pockets of the proprietors, 

 which, in fpite of every precaution, would fre- 

 quently become premiums for indolence and im- 

 pofture. On the contrary, it can never be too 

 often repeated, fuch inltitutions as the Infurance 

 fociety of Soho cherifli the truely honourable pride 

 of felf-dependence, which is the nouriflier of in- 

 tegrity and virtuous emulation, and oppofe the 

 mort eff'eftual barrier to the flood of diffipatioa 

 and difregard of charafler and confequences, witli 

 which the parochial provifion for all who cluife to 

 hve at the expenle of others has overwhelmed the 

 country. 



Southampton, (Hamp. E.J an antient com- 

 mercial town, and a county of itfelf, fituated on 

 a point between two rivers, the Anton or Tife, 

 and the Aire or Itching, both navigable, ^ and at 

 the head of a moft escellsnt eftuary, called South* 



