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Kerry, Ireland, one only of which, the Great Skelig, is 

 inhabitable. On thi:; there was formerly an abbey ; but it 

 was removed to Ballinalkeligs, as a more convenient fuua- 

 tion. See Ballinaskeligs. 



SKELL, a river nf England, whicli runs into the Ure, 

 near Rippon, in Yorkfliire. 



SKELLENBERG, a mountain of Bavaria, near 

 Donauwert, wliere the French and Bavarians were defeated 

 by the duke of Marlborough and prince Lewis of Baden. 



SKELLFLETE, a river of England, which runs into 

 the Humber, 12 miles W. of Hull. 



SKELLINGE, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Halland ; 20 miles S.S.E. of Konfback. 

 SKEMLIK. See Kemlik. 



SKENEATELES, a handfome poll-village of Ame- 

 rica, in the Hate of New York, in Marcellus, Onondaga 

 county, at the outfet of the lake of the fame name; 163 

 miles N. of W. from Albany. It has 60 houfes, a hand- 

 fome Frelbyterian church, fcveral mills, &c. on Skeneateles 

 creek ; and it has a brilk trade. 



Skeneateles Lake, a lake about fifteen miles long, and 

 from half a mile to a mile and a half wide, principally in 

 Onondaga county ; fix miles at its north end being in the 

 townfhip of Marcellus. Its trout and falmon troi'.t are very 

 large. The outlet is at the north end near the village of 

 the fame name, and the creek runs north, through Marcellus 

 and Camillus, about ten miles to Seneca river, affording 

 many fine feats for mills. Skeneateles, in the dialedl of the 

 Onond.iga Indians, fignifies long ; and hence the name of 

 the lake. 



SKENECTADY. See Schenectady. 

 SKENEK. See ScHENCK. 



SKENESBOROUGH, a town of America, in Warti- 

 ington county, in the Hate of New York, fituated on 

 AVood creek, on the fouth iide of lake George ; burned by 

 the Americans in 1777, with their baggage and military 

 ftores, when they were retreating before the Britiih army 

 under general Burgoyne. See Whitehall. 



SKEOTISVAY Isle, one of the Hebrides, in the 

 parifh of Harris, and (hire of Invernefs. It is about a mile 

 long, and till of late years was uninhabited. 



SKEP, in Agrkuhure-, a coarfe round farm baflcet. It 

 is alfo provincially ufed to fignify a bee- hive. 



SKEPLE, or Skuttle, a fort of flat broad baflcet 

 for winnowing corn. 



SKER Point, in Geography, a cape on the coaft of 

 South Wales, in the Briltol Channel. N. lat. 51° 27'. W. 

 long. 3° 42'.^ 



SKERAT, a rock in the Caledonian fea, near the well 

 coait of Skye. N. lat. 57- 24'. W. long. 6= 40'. 



SKERENIZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Chrudim ; 5 miles N. of Hohemaut. 



SKERGULE, a rocky ifland near the fouth-weft coaft. 

 of Mull. N. lat. j6^ 18'. W. long. 6" 21'. 



SKERIVORE Isles, a clufter of fmall ifiand?, belong- 

 ing to the Hebrides, Scotland ; fituated about 40 miles 

 weitward from the point of Mull. 



SKERN, a river of England, in the county of Durham, 

 which runs into the Tees. 



SKERPING, a town of Sweden, in Upland ; 38 miles 

 N. of Upfal. 



SKERRIES, a confiderable fifhing-town on the ealt 

 coaft of Ireland, in the county of Dublin, near which are 

 feveral feats and villas. Oppofite to it are fome rocks, 

 called Skerries, from which much kelp is procured. There 

 are other iflands of the fame name off the coaft of the county 

 of Antrim, near Portrufh. 



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Skerries, The, or The Skerry IJles, a clufter of fmall 

 iflands, fituated to the eaftvvard of the Mainland of the 

 Shetland ifles, to which they belong. The principal of 

 them, and the only ones -inhabited, are Bruray, Grunav» 

 and Houfay, which united contain about a hundred in- 

 habitants, who are chiefly employed in fifliing. Thcfe 

 iflands afford good anchorage for fmall veffels ; but the want 

 of a light-honfe renders the navigation in their vicinity very 

 dangerous, and has been the occafion of many melancholy 

 fliipwrecks. Carlifle's Topographical Diftionary of Scot- 

 land, 4to. 1 81 3. Sinclair's Statiftical Account of Scot- 

 land, vol. vi. 8vo. 1794. 



Skerries, JJle nf, a fmall ifland, included in the parifh ' 

 of Llan Fair yn Ghoir.wy, cwmwd of Tal-y-bolion, can- 

 traef of Cemmaes, (now called the hundred of Tal-y. 

 bolion,) and county of Anglefea, North Wales, is fituated 

 at the diflance of a mile and a half from the Mainland, and , 

 affords pailurage for a few fheep. The foflile ftone called 

 ajbejios, is found here in great abundance ; and at one ex- 

 tremity of the ifland is an e.'tcellent light-honfe, which is 

 highly ferviceahle to veflcls navigating between Ireland and 

 the ports of Chelter and Liverpool. The Wellh call tliis 

 ifland Ynys y Mael Rhoniaid, i. e. the Ifle of Seals. Car- 

 lifle's Topographical Diftionary of Wales, 4to. 181 1. 



SKERSTA, a town of Sweden, in Smaland ; 10 miles 

 N.N.E. of .Tonkioping. 



SKESMO, a town of Norway, in the province of Chrif. 

 tiania ; 14 miles E.N.E. of Chriftiania. 



SKETHYE, a river of North Wales, in the county ol 

 Merioneth, which runs into the Irifli fca, 3 miles N.N.W, 

 of Barmouth. 



SKEUDITZ. See Schkeuditz. 

 SKEVERI, a town of Hindooltan, in Vifiapour ; 10 

 miles S.W. of Raibaug. 



SKEW, or Skile, Facets, among Jetuellers. See 

 Facets. 



SKE WRING Chbese, in /Igrkuhure, the praftice of 

 thrulling Itrong iron-wire flvewers into cheefes, in order to 

 draw off and difcharge the whey from them. The ikewers 

 for this ufe are molUy about eighteen or twenty inches in 

 length. See Dairying. 



SKEYL, provincially to lean on one fide, or throw up, 

 as in unloading a cart. 



Skeyl-Bco/I, in Rural Economy, provincially the parti- 

 tion of cattle-ltalls. 



SKEYLD, provincially parti-coloured, as geefe, ducks, 

 &c. ; or flielled. 



SKIALFANDEFIORD, in G^9fra^/jy, a river of Ice- 

 land, which receives the waters of a large and rapid river 

 called the Skialfandefliot, and alfo a river called Laxaa, 

 which flows from the lake Myoatn. llufavik, a com- 

 mercial ilation, lies on this river, N.E. of Eyafiord. Here 

 is no good fifliing ; but many feals are caught during winter. 

 Eider-ducks are very abundant on the coaft. 



SKIATIC Stay, in R'gging, a contrivance for hoifting 

 and lowering burdens out ct or in fhips, which clinches or 

 makes fall with two half-hitvhes, and the ends ftoj^t, round 

 the heads of the main and fore-mafts, with a tackle depend- 

 ing from it over the hatchwr.y. A 

 SKIATO, in Geography, one of the Grecian iflands, \ 

 neareft to the coaft of Greece, feparated from the ifland of 

 Scopoli only by a channel of about two leagues, ad from 

 the main land by one not much wider. Anchorages, rather 

 numerous and fafe, are to be found along the eaft ciiall, and 

 between the fmall iflets which are on the fame fide. To 

 this circumftance the advantages of this little ifland are 

 nearly reduced. 



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