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farms fhould conftantly be formed with great attention to 

 the nature of the grafs, the expofure, and the ftielter for the 

 animals. They (honld alfo be kept dry and in good order 

 on the furface, with every fort of proper convenience for 

 the management of fheep. See SnEEP-Hu/bandry, and 

 Farming. 



SHEEP-Leqfe, a term apphed to pafture-land appro- 

 priated to the feeding or fupporting of fheep ; or any fort 

 of pafture-land on which this kind of animal or live-ftock 

 is kept. 



SHEEP-PaJlure, that kind of dry, firm pafture land which 

 is fuitable for the purpofes of grazing, feeding, and fatten- 

 ing fheep. Many forts of moill land are not at all proper 

 for, or adapted to this ufe, though well fuited for fome 

 other forts of farm management. 



Sheep' s-Trotters, a refufe material procured from fell- 

 mongers, which is made ufe of in fome places as a manure to 

 be turned into the land. They are bought at about 6J. the 

 bufhel, loofely heaped, in fome places, and coil about ij. 

 more in carnage, being ufed in the proportion of from twenty 

 ■ to forty bufhels the acre, bemg afterwards pricked in to 

 prevent their being eaten by dogs, crows, &c. They an- 

 fwer beil on fuch lands as are rather dry, and where the fea- 

 fon is rather moift. They contain a large proportion of 

 lime, and are often adulterated by being mixed with fand, as 

 well as oak faw-duft ; which laft is faid not to injure them. 

 Furriers' cuttings are nearly the fame, and made ufe of in a 

 fimilar manner. 



Sheep'j Ceve, in Geography, a bay on the E. coaft of 

 Newfoundland, between Bay Robert and Port Grave. 



Sheep IJland, a fmall ifland near the coad of South 

 Wales, E. of the entrance into Milford Haven. N. lat. 

 51° 38'. VV. long. 5° 9'.— Alfo, a fmall idand on the 

 northern coail of the county of Antrim, Ireland, oppofite 

 to the extreme point of the head-land, between Ballintoy 

 and Ballycallle, not far from the remarkable rock, called 

 Carrick-a-Rcde. N. lat. 55° 15'. W. long. 6" 11'. 



SiHEEP-Fefcue Grafs, in ylgriculture, a fort of grafs which, 

 while it has been much praiicd by fome as iifefuTin paftures, 

 has been condemned by others as of little importance from 

 its fmallnefs, and being hable to be burnt up in dry fcafons. 

 It is faid to fuccecd wifth lefs moilture than moft other 

 forts of grafs. As forming a clofe-matted turf, where no 

 great produce is required, it may be found a beneficial 

 plant. See Fe^tuca ovina, and Grass. 



SuEEV-Nnfe-M^rjrms, in Natural Hijlory, a fpccics of fly- 

 worm, found in the nofes of fheep, goats, and flags, and 

 produced there from the egg of a large two-winged fly. 

 The frontal finufes above the nofc in fheep, and other 

 animals, arc the places where thefe worms live, and attain 

 their full growth. Thefe finufes arc always full of a foft 

 white matter, which furnifhcs thefe worms with a proper 

 nourifhment, and are fufficiently large for their habitation; 

 and when they have here acquired their deitined growth, 

 in which they arc fit to undergo their changes for the fly- 

 ttate, they leave their old habitation, and, falling to the 

 earth, bury ihemfelves there ; and when thefe are hatched 

 into flies, the female, when file has been impregnated by the 

 male, knows that the nofe of a fheep, or other animal, is 

 the only place for her to depofit her eggs, in order to their 

 coming to maturity. Mr. Valifnieri, to whom the world 

 owes fo many difcoveries in the infeft clafs, is tlie (irll who 

 has given any true account of the origin of thefe worms. 

 But though their true hillory had been, till that time, un- 

 known, the creatures themfelves were very early difcovered, 

 and many ages fince were elleemed great medicines in 

 cpilepfies. 



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The fly, produced from this worm, has all the time of 

 its hfe a very laz.y difpofition, and does not like to make 

 any ufe either of its legs or wings. Its head and corcelet 

 together arc about as long as its body, which is compofed 

 of five rings, ftrcaked on the back ; a p.ile yellow and 

 brown are there difpofcd in irregular fpots ; the belly is of 

 the fame colours, but they are there more regularly dif- 

 pofed, for the brown here makes three lines, one in the 

 middle, and one on each fide, and all the intermediate 

 fpaces are yellow ; the wings are nearly of the fame length 

 with the body, and are a little inchncd in their polition, 

 f ) as to lie upon the body ; they do not, however, 

 cover it, but a naked fpace is left between them ; the 

 ailerons, or petty wings, which are found under each of the 

 wings, are of a whitifh colour, and perfeftly cover the 

 balancers, fo that they are not to be fecn without lifting 

 up thefe. 



The fly will live two months after it is firft produced, 

 but will take no nourifhment of any kind ; and pofTibly it 

 may be of the fame nature with the butterflies, which never 

 take any food during the whole time of their living in that 

 ftate. Reaumur Hill. Inf. vol. iv. p. 552, &c. 



SnEEV-Scahtous, in Botany. See Jasione. 



SnZEV-Shank, in Sea Language, is a fort of knot, or 

 hitch, caft on a rope, to fhorten it as occafion requires'; 

 particularly to increafe the fweep or length of a tackle, 

 by contrafting its runner. By this contrivance the body, 

 to which the tackle is applied, may be hoifted much higher, 

 or removed much farther, in a fhortcr time. Falconer. 



Thus, if any weighty body is to be hoifted into a fhip, &c. 

 and it be found that the blocks of the tackle meet, or 

 lloch and block, before the objeA can reach the top of the 

 fide, it will be necefTary to lower it again, or hang it by 

 fome other method, till the runner of the tackle be fheep- 

 flianked, by which the blocks will again be fcparated to it 

 competent diftancc. Sec Rigging, Plate I. Jig- 16. 



SHEEPCADE, in /Igriculture, a name provincially ap- 

 plied to the large flicep-loufe. 



SHEEPENT, or Siieep.scot, in Geography, a river of 

 America, in the diftrift of Maine, which runs into the fea, 

 N. lat. 43° 43'. W. long. 69° 38'. 



SHEEPHAVEN, a h-irbour on the northern coaft of 

 the county of Donegal, Ireland, fituated weft of the Mul- 

 roy, and fcparated from it by a long, and, in fume parts, 

 very narrow peninfula. The furrounding country is moun- 

 tainous, and thinly inhabited ; nor is there any town of 

 confequencc in the neighbourhood. Dunfanaghy, near 

 Hornhead, is no more than a village, though ruins near it 

 feem to indicate that it was formerly much larger. The fili- 

 ceous fand found in this diftrift is of excellent quality for 

 making glafs, and it is carried to Bclfall for that purpofe. 

 Undcrthc article Hornhead, a promontory which forms the 

 wcftcrn boundary of the harbour, we noticed, on tlu; autho- 

 rity of the late Dr. William Hamilton, in the Tranfadions 

 of the Royal Irifh Academy, the efleft of drifting fands in 

 overwhelming the veftiges of cultivation ; and tlir change 

 thus produced in the appearance of a country. A fimilar 

 effect took place on the euftern fide, which is thus defcribed 

 by the fame writer. " About a century ago, an elegant 

 edifice, according to the tafte of tliat age, was built on the 

 peninfula, between the harbours of Slieephaveii and Mulroy, 

 which at prefcnt Hands ' like Tadmor of the Eall, tlie foli- 

 tary wonder of a furrounding defert.' The gardens arc 

 totally denuded of trees and (hrubs by the fury of the 

 weftern winds : their walls, unable to fuftain the mafs of 

 overbearing fands, have bent bi fore the aocunuilated prcf- 

 fure, and, overthrown in numberlefs placvs, have given free 

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