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Size, Ifinglajs. See IcHTHVOCOLLA. 



Size, Painting. Ste Distemper. 



Size /or Silvdring. See Silvkring. 



Size of Cottcige Grounds, in AgricuUuri. See Cottage. 



Size of Farms, the particular dimenfions or extents of 

 them. Tlie advantages of the difFcrent iizes of farms, fo 

 far as they relate to the occupiers and the community at 

 large, have not yet been by any means afcertained. See 

 Farm. 



Size of Fields er Inclofures. See Fence, Field, and 

 Inclosing of Land. 



SIZEBOLI, in Geography, a town of European 

 Turkey, in Romania, on a point of land which projefts 

 into the Black, fea, with a good road, in wliich men of war 

 may moor. It is the fee of a Greek archbifliop ; 14 miles 

 E. of Burgos. N. lat. 42'-' 30'. E. lonj^. 27'-' 44'. 



SIZEL, in Coining, is ufed where pieces of money are 

 cut out from flat bars of filver, after having been drawn 

 through a mill into the refpociive fizes or dimenfions ot the 

 money to be made ; the refidue is called fizel, and melted 

 down again. 



SIZING, in Mineralogy, a term ufed by the Cornifli 

 miners for a peculiar method of feparating the purer from 

 the impurer parts of an ore, by means of fievcs. When the 

 ore has been powdered, they put it into a wire-fieve with 

 fine holes, and in this they fift it, till the fine part goes 

 through : thie is properly what is called fr/.iiig. They 

 fend the larger or coarfer part to be pmvdered again, and 

 putting the red into a fieve with a clofe bottom, they let 

 in a itrcam of water from the cock, and by means of con- 

 tinued fliaking it about, they caufe tiie ligliter and fouler 

 parts to be waflied over the rims of the fieve, and the re- 

 maining powder is the black tin. 



SIZRAN, in Geography, a town of Riiflia, in the 

 government of Simbirik, on the Volga; 27 miles S. of 

 Simbirik. N. lat. 53^ 10'. E. long. 48° 14'. 



SIZUN, a town of France, in the department of Finif- 

 terre ; ^ mile^ S.E. of Landerneau. 



SIZZELA, a town of Illria; 9 miles S.S.W. of Cape 



d'lftrui. 



.SIZZING, in Rural Economy, a term provincially ap- 

 plied to yealt or barm. 



SKABOUGAN, in Geography, a river of America, 

 which runs into lake Michigan, N. lat. 44° 5'. W. long. 

 86° 46'. 



SKAGAFIORD, a bay on the N. coall of Iceland. 

 N. lat. 65° 50'. E. long. 15° 21'. This Fiord receives the 

 waters of two rivers, one of which is large, and is called 

 Kolbcinbdilfaa. On the weltern fide of the Skagafiord is 

 fituated a place of trade, called Hoffos, with a bad harbour, 

 fo that only one merchant has fettled there. At the head ot 

 the Skagaliord, not far from Hoffos, is Hoolum, which, 

 until the dole of the lalt centurv, was the feat of one of 

 the bifhops of Iceland. A public fchool was alfo cllabhfhed 

 there; but now (1810) the place confills only of a few 

 cottages ; and in its prefent flate contains nothing particu- 

 larly worthy of notice. 



SivAfiAiiORD Syfel, a diftrift of Iceland, containing 412 

 farms, 492 f:imilies, and a popidation of 3141 ptrfons. 



SKAGASTRAND. a coufiderablc place of trade on 

 the northern coaft of Iceland; fituated on the weltern fide 

 of the large promontory which bounds the Skai;afiord. 

 The harbour is bad ; and towards the end of September is 

 particularly unfafe, on account of its being expofed to the 

 north wind and floating ice. This place formerly furnifhed 

 a cargo for one vdlcl every year ; but fincc the commence- 

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iiient of the war, the arrival even of one fiiip has not been 

 regular. 



SKAGEN, a promontory of Iceland, projefting from 

 the N. coaft, about 2c miles in length from N. to S. and 

 from 5 to 15 in breadth ; the N. point being in N. lat. 66*. 

 E. long. 45^51'. 



Skagex. See Scagen. 



SKAGER, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland; 85 

 miles E.N.E. of Uddevalla. — Alfo, a lake of Sweden, in 

 W.irmeland ; 5 miles E. from the Weiincr lake. 



SKALDA and Skalds. See Edda and Scalds. 



SKALE, in Geography, a fmall illand on the W. coall 

 of Scotland, in Loeh Fine. N. lat. ^^ 54'. W. long. 



SKALEN, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of Culm ; 

 13 miles N. of Strafburg. 



'SKALEVAD, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Angcrmanland ; 50 miles N.N.E. of Hcrnofand. 



SKALGRUND, a Imall illand on the E. fide of tiic 

 gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 55° 54'. W. long. 5" 23'. 



SKALHOLT, a town of Iceland, the fee of a bifliop, 

 fuffragan of Drontheim. N. lat. 64°. W. long. 16^. The 

 fituation of Skalholt, about 24 miles from Thingxmlla (which 

 fee), is beautiful. Towards the fouth there is a view of a 

 noble river, formed by the juniflion of that difcharged from 

 Apa Vatn and the Huitea, bounded by a finely-fhaped hill 

 in the diltance ; another equally pidfurefque hill nfing on 

 the eallern bank of the latter, and facing Skalholt. Flat 

 meadow land, gently fwelling ground, and diftant moun- 

 tains towards tlie ealt, among which are Eyafialla Jokul, 

 and Hekla, form altogether a magnificent amphitheatre, and 

 compofe a landfcape which, even without wood, is highly 

 gratifying to the eye. The firll bifliop of Skalholt was 

 Ifleif, who died in loRo ; he was the earlieft of the Icelandic 

 hiftonans, and a man of great general learning ; but his works 

 are now unfortunately loll. Paul, another bilhop of Skalholt, 

 as well as Sturlefon, were diltinguifhed by their attainments 

 in mathematics and mechanical Icience. During a period of 

 feven centuries, Iceland was divided into two bifhoprics, 

 that of Skalholt comprehending the fouthern, ar.d that of 

 Hoolum the northern dillrifls of the ifland. The fees becom- 

 ing vacant at the lame time, they were uniled, in 1797, by the 

 order of the Danifli government ; and the title of bifhop of 

 Iceland was conferred upon the learned and refpcftable 

 Gein Vidahn, the prefent polleflbr of this dignity. The 

 duties of his oflicc are important ar.d exlenfive. The place 

 of his flatcd relidence is Reikiavik. His revenue, fince 

 the union of the fees, is about 1800 dollars />/■/• annum, de- 

 rived chiefly from the public treafury of the illand. The 

 appointment of the bifhop is veiled in the crown. The 

 church of Skalholt is a neat fmall buildir.g of wood, 

 erefted on the Icite of the former one, which was taken 

 down about the year 1804. The church, the biftiop's 

 houfe, and a few cottages, conflitute the fuppofed capital 

 of Iceland. The eafiell route from the fouthern to the 

 northern parts of Iceland is by tiie way of Skalholt. To 

 Skagallrand, the nearelt road is by Tliingvalla and Kalman- 

 flunga, which lall place is fituated to the N.E. of Reik- 

 holt. See Mackenzie's Travels in Iceland in iSio. See 

 Iceland. 



SKALL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Boleflaw; 

 4 miles N.N.W. of Turnau. 



SKALLERUI), a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Weft Gothland ; 30 miles N.N.E. of Uddevalla. 



SKALOE, a imall ifland of Denmark, near the N. coall 

 of Laaland. N. lat. 55°. E. long. 1 1'- 23'. 



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