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SKIBBEREEN, a poll-town of the county of Cork, 

 Ireland, formerly called Stapletown. It is fituated on the 

 fiiuth fide of the river Hen, which flows into Baltimore har- 

 bour. This river is navigable nearly from Skibbereen for 

 lighters ; yet the trade is chiefly carried on by land-carriage, 

 becaufe the general prevalence of welterly winds renders tlie 

 communication by fea always uncertain, and often tedious. 

 Skibbereen, fays Mr. Townfend, without patronage or en- 

 couragement, has, from the mere cirCTimitance of its fitua- 

 tion, become populous, thriving, and wealthy. At its 

 markets and fairs, befides the other ufual articles of mer- 

 chandize, very large quantities of coarfe linens and yarn are 

 cxpofed to fale. The town is, notwithltanding, ill built, 

 with a number of wretched cabins, and very dirty. It is 

 i 60 miles S.W. from Dublin, and 38 W. by S. from Cork. 

 Townfend's Statiftical Survey. 



8KICIE, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia; 

 40 miles W. of Jally. ., 



SKID, in Rural Economy, a term applied to the chain 

 by which the wheel of a waggon is fattened, fo as to pre- 

 vent its turning round, upon defcending a fteep hill. See 



DiiAG. 



HKlD-Bcamt, in Ship-Building, are the beams in the waift, 

 ■.'. hich connett the forecaftle with the quarter-deck. 



vSkids, Boat, fquare pieces of timber bolted one on each 

 fide, and projeCling over the Hern, with fheaves in tlieir 

 oiiter ends to hoill the boat up. Boat-fkids over the quar- 

 t IS arc fixed at the heel, and fufpended by a lift at the 

 li' ad ; the latter of iron lately in the navy. 



Skids, Whak, are long fquare pieces of timber, projcfling 

 from the fides of Greenland (liips, for the convenience of 

 hoilling and canting the whale out of the water. 



SKIDDAW, in Gi:ogrj/)Zi_y, a mountain of Cumberland, 

 England, is remarkable as being clafled among the greateft 

 rniincnces of the ifland. It is alfo diltinguifhed for its ro- 

 mantic and grand fccnery, as well as for the lakes in its dif- 

 ferent hollows, and near its bafe. Maurice, in his poem of 

 '• Netherby," thus charafterifes this angull mountain: 



" There, tow'ring Skiddaw, wrapt in awful fhade. 

 Monarch of mountains, rears his mighty head ; 

 Dark'ning with frowns fair Kefwick's beauteous vale, 

 He views beneath the gathering tcmpelts fail. 

 Secure, nor heeds the rollnig thunder's rage, 

 Though Schruffel, trembling, marks the dire prefage." 



According to the trigonometrical furvey, by colonel 

 Mudge and his alTitlants, it is dated that the highelt point 

 of Skiddaw is 3022 feet above the level of the fea. Sea- 

 fell, in the fame county, is 3166 feet in height. Like the 

 generality of mountains in this part of the kingdom, Skid- 

 daw coiififts of numerous inequalities ; deep hollows, and 

 bold crags ; irregular fifiures, and gentle Hopes. Its fur- 

 face alfo prefcnts a variety of fubllances, colours, and forms. 

 In fome places are vail mafles of bare rock ; in other parts, 

 a foft (hort grafs prtfents itfelf ; and in others are heath, 

 furze, and brambles. Wildnefs and grandeur are the ge- 

 neral features. Mrs. Radclifie gives a very interclling de- 

 fcription of different parts of this mountain, in her "Journey 

 through Holland," &c. 2 vols. 8vo. I7(;5. Other ac- 

 counts arc given in the following works : Hutchinfon's 

 Excurfion to the Lakes, \',\o. 1776; Well's Guide to the 

 Lakes, 8vo. 1802 ; Gilpin's Obfervations relative chiefly 

 to pifturcfqne Beauty on liie Mountains and Lakes of Cum- 

 berland and Weftmoreland, 2 vols. 8vo. 1786. 



SKIERENDAL, a town of Norway, in the province 

 of Aggerhuus ; 20 railcs N. W. of Chrilliania. 



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SKIERN, a river of Denmark, which runs into the fea, 

 12 miles S. of Ringkiobing. 



SKIFF, a boat much ufed in the river Thames, It 

 difi"ers from a wherry by being lliorter and broader in pro- 

 portion, and having a tranfom abaft. 



SKIFFI, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Grecian 

 Archipelago. N. lat. 38' 44'. E. long. 24'^ 13'. 



SKILI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 48 

 miles E.N.E. of Conllantinople. 



SKILLING, in Rural Economy, a term fignifying an 

 ifle, or bay of a barn ; alfo a flight addition to a cot 

 tage.^ 



SKILLINGE, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Blckingen ; 4 miles W. of Carlfcrona. 



SKILLINGS, a river of America, in the diflrift of 

 Maine, which runs into the fea, 4 miles W. of New 

 Briltol. 



SKILSKIOER, a fea-pcrt of Denmark, in the ifland 

 of Zealand, in a bay which communicates with the Great 

 Belt; 48 miles S.W. of Copenhagen. N. lat. 55- 16'. 

 E. long. I 1° 27'. 



SKILUGRUND, a fmall ifland on the eait fide of the 

 gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 63° 55'. E. long. 20" 50'. 



SKIM-CouLTER, in Agriculture, a fort of coulter in- 

 vented by Mr. Ducket, for paring off the furface of coarfe 

 grafs or other lands, and placing it in the bottom of the 

 furrow, fo as to be fully covered and fecurcd. It has beeo 

 ufed in different dillrifts with the greatell advantage and 

 fuccefs. It is Hated in the Agricultural Report of Hert- 

 fordfliire, that Mr. Biggs, near St. Albans, finds it of ex- 

 cellent effect in clover lays, and alfo wherever any rubbilh 

 is on the land that wants burying, as well as in breaking up 

 old faintfoin lays. And it may be beneficially employed on 

 many other occaiions. 



SKiM-Coulter Plough, that fort of plough whicii has a 

 fkim-coulter of fome kind or other attached to it. See 

 Plough. 



Skim-AIiH, in Rural Economy, that fort of milk which 

 is left, after the cream has been taken away or fliimmed off 

 from the furface of it. This procefs is moftly performed by 

 means of a flight thin fliimming-diffi, after the milk has been 

 fet by for fome time in Ihailow veffels, cither in its natural 

 ftate, or when having undergone, in fome cafes, the opera- 

 tion of fcalding. Where the latter praftice is followed, 

 though it might at firll be reafonably fuppofed that all the 

 oily unftuous matter of the milk would be brought to the 

 furface, yet it is found by experience that that is not the 

 cafe; but that, on the contrary, the fcalded flcimined-milk 

 is much richer, and better even for the purpofe of fuckling 

 calves, as well as capable of making far better checfe than 

 the raw flcimmed-milk. In Devonlhire, the fcalded Ikim 

 or flvimmed-milk is ellimated at the value of a penny farthing 

 the quart, cither for the ufe of chcefe-making, or that of 

 feeding hogs. 



The ikini-milk in the county of Efl'ex, as well as in many 

 others, efpecially thofe more towards the north, is con- 

 verted to the purpole of keeping and fattening porkers, and 

 that of being dilpofed of, at tiie rate of about three-pence 

 or four-pence the gallon, to the lower claffes of the people; 

 or that of taking in pigs to keep, at the price of about 

 from three (hillings ar.d fixpencc to four fliillings and fix- 

 pence tlie week. A hog has been known to be fattened, in 

 the above named diltrirt, in this way, to the weight of 

 lixty-fix (tone, without the offal, at eight pounds to the 

 ilonr, (kim-m.ilk only beiiiij given for the purpofe. 



In other diilricls, the farmers rear and bring up their 

 calves, and keep their own hogs, on this fort of milk, as 



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