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middle parts, where there is a drain made for taking away 

 all fuch offenfive matters, and keeping the houfes quite clean 

 and fweet, merely by pumping or throwing water upon the 

 floors of them. 



Houfes of this fort have ufually the dimenfions of about 

 twenty-two feet in length by fixteen in width ; but they 

 may be conllrufted in this way to any fuitable extent that 

 may be necelTary. The drains of flaughter-houfes are often 

 conneAed with pits or refervoirs, by which means large 

 quantities of excellent manure are accumulated. 



Thefe houfes, hkewife, fometimes form parts in the ar- 

 rangement of farm buildings in large farm-yards. 



SLAVGHTER-Siins, a term ufed by our curriers and lea- 

 ther-dreflers for the (Ifins of oxen, or other beads, when 

 frefli, and covered with the hair : fuch as they receive them 

 from the flaughter-houfes where the butchers flay the 

 carcafe. 



Slaughter Creei, in Geography, a bay of America, on 

 the coaft of Maryland, in the Chefapeak. 



SLAUGHTERING of Animals, the cuftom of kill- 

 ing them for the purpofe of food. This operation, for 

 the fake of humanity, (hould conftantly be performed in the 

 moft fudden and ready manner poflible, and not in the lin- 

 gering, brutal, protrafted way which is ufually praftifed 

 by the generality of butchers in this country. See Strik- 

 ing or Pithing Animals. 



SLAVI, Slavonia, and Slavonians. See Sclavi, 

 ScLAvoNiA, and Sclavonians. 



SLAWATICZE, in Geography, a town of Lithuania, 

 in the palatinate of Brzefc, near the Bug ; i6 miles S. of 

 Brzefc. 



SLAWENTITZ, a town of Silefia, in the principahty 

 of Oppeln ; 24 miles S.E. of Oppeln. 



SLAWIETIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Schlan ; 12 miles N.W. of Schlan. 



SLAWKOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in the pala- 

 tinate of Cracow ; 25 miles N.W. of Cracow. 



Slawkow. See Austerlitz and Schlakenwald. 



SLAWONICA. See Zlabings. 



SLEAFORD, or New Sleaford, a market-town in 

 the wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Keiteven, and county 

 of Lincoln, England, is fituated 16 miles S. of Lincoln 

 and 116 N. of London, on a fmall rivulet called the Slea, 

 which rifes in the vicinity, and runs to Chapel Hill, vphere 

 it joins the river Witham. Many Roman coins of the Con- 

 ilantine family have been found here, from which, and other 

 circumftances. Dr. Stukeley conjeftures, that this was a 

 Reman town. " We find the dillance," he obferves, 

 " between Caitor and Lincoln about forty miles, has two 

 towns upon it at proper intervals for lodging : thefe are 

 Sleaford and Stanfield. The original names of them are in 

 irrecoverable filence, but the eternity of the Romans is in- 

 herent. It is probable that Alexander, bifhop of Lincoln, 

 built his work upon the fcite of a Roman citadel. Be- 

 fide, at Sleaford comes in the other Roman road from the 

 fen country by Brig End Caufy, and at the interfeftion of 

 thefe two roads the old town ftood." The work here 

 alluded to was the cattle, which, in Leland's time, was 

 ftanding, and is thus defcribed by him. " Withoute the 

 towne of Slcford ftandith, weft-fouth-weft, the propre 

 caftell of Sleford, very well mantayned ; and it is compafled 

 with a renning llreme, cumming by a cut oute of a little 

 feene, lying almofte flatte welle againft it. In the gateway 

 be two portcuUifes, a high towre in the middle of the caf- 

 telle, but not fet upon a hill of raifed earth : the vaults of 

 the cattle by the ground be fair. The houfe, or manor place, 

 lately almoll new, buildid of ilone and timbre, ttandith 

 Southward without the town. The town nor market is of 



no price : the ornaments of it is the bifhop of Lincoln'* 

 cattle, and the late lord Hufley's houfe." Since Leland's 

 time, however, Sleaford has become a different place, and 

 is ttill improving both as to buildings and population. In 

 the return to parhament in the year 1811, the houfes are 

 ftated to be 385, the inhabitants 1781. The cattle has 

 been wholly levelled with the ground, and lord Huffey's 

 manfion, at Old Sleaford, is now a farm-houfe. A weekly 

 market is held on Mondays, and four fairs are held annually. 



The church is a handfome, fpacious ftrufture, and, from 

 a manufcript found in the parifli cheft, appears to have been 

 built in the year 1271, by Roger Blunt and Roger Brick- 

 ham, of Sleaford, merchants. It confitts of a chancel, nave, 

 tranfept, and two aides ; with a tower crowned by a fpire, 

 which rifes to the height of 144 feet. In the chancel are 

 feveral monuments to the family of Carr, by one of which 

 a free-fchool was erefted and liberally endowed in the year 

 1603 ; and alfo an hofpital for twelve poor men. The 

 manor and ettates were conveyed by marriage, with an heirefs 

 of the Carr family, to the late earl of Briftol. 



At Kyme, about three miles from Sleaford, Leland fays, 

 there was in his time " a goodly houfe and park." Philip de 

 Kyme, in the reign of Henry II., built here a priory for 

 black canons of the order of St. Auguftine, to the honour 

 of the Blelled Virgin. Its furrender by a prior and nine 

 canons to Henry VIII. is noticed by Willis. 



About feven miles eaft of Sleaford, is Haverholme 

 priory, the feat of fir Jenifon William Gordon, bart. The 

 houfe and grounds occupy an area of about 300 acres, 

 which conftitute an ifland, formed by two branches of a 

 river. It was given by bifhop Alexander, in 1 139, to the 

 nuns and canons of the order of St. Gilbert of Sempring- 

 ham ; and at the difTolution was granted to Edward, lord 

 Clinton. The prefent pofleffor of Haverholme made nume- 

 rous additions to the old remains in 1788, and has formed 

 a manfion in a ftyle correfponding with the importance of 

 the place. Beauties of England and Wales, vol. ix. by 

 J. Britton, F.S.A. 



SLEA MORE Point, the fouthern extremity of the 

 ifland of Inifherkan, oppofite to Baltimore, in the county 

 of Cork, Ireland. N. lat. 51^24'. W. long. 9° 19'. 



SLEASY Holland, a kind of holland thus called, be- 

 caufe made in Silefia in Germany; and which, from its flight- 

 nefs, occaiions all thin, flight, ill-wrought hollands, to be 



called _/7f a/5'- 



SLEBEZE, or Slybze, in Geography, a fmall ifland in 

 the ftraits of Sunda. S. lat. 5° 54'. E. long. 105° 24'. 



SLECK, in Rural Economy, a provincial term applied 

 to the fmall of pit-coal : alfo to the black matter of fmutty 

 grain. 



SLED, in Agriculture, provincially a fledge. 



SLEDGE, a kind of carriage without wheels, for the 

 conveyance of very weig'hty things, as huge ftones, bell?, 

 &c. The fledge for carrying criminals, condemned for high 

 treafon, to execution, is called hurdle. 



The Dutch have a kind of fledge, on which they can 

 carry a vellel of any burden by land. It confitts of a 

 plank of the length of the keel of a moderate fhip, raifed 

 a little behind, and hollow in the middle ; fo that the fides 

 go a httle aflope, and are furnifhed with holes to receive 

 pins, &c. The reft is quite even. 



Sledge, in Agriculture, an implement employed for con- 

 veying various articles upon. It is made of two ftrong 

 pieces of wood framed together. 



It is a very ufeful fort of contrivance for different kinds 

 of work and purpofes in farming in different fituations of 

 land, but efpeciaJly thofe that are rather of a hilly nature ; 

 fuch as the conveying away various forts of heavy materials, 



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