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and other mountains cover much of the fouthern part of it. 

 Among thefe hills there are many large lakes, and abundance 

 of rivers. The Moy, which rifes in the mountain of Knock- 

 ra-ree, flows firft to the fouthward, and after a winding 

 courfe, takes a northerly direftion to the bay of Killalla. 

 It receives in its courR' the luperfluous waters of I.ough 

 Conn, and forms, for fonie miles, the weltern boundary of 

 the county. Lough Arrow is about eight miles long, full 

 of iflands, and of a very irregular form : a river of the 

 fame name proceeds from it, and running northward to Bal- 

 lyfadere, rufhes at once into the fea in a ftupendouscataraft. 

 Lough Garra, on the borders of Rofcommon, in the moll 

 fouthern part of the county, communicates with Lough 

 Key by the river Boyle, which joins the Shannon. Lough 

 Gilly exhibits that variety of charming profpedls which bold 

 hills, wooded lawns, and large idands clothed with verdure, 

 and crowntd with trees, united with a great extent of water, 

 cannot fail to produce. Upon the river by which the 

 waters of this lake are difcharged into the bay of Sligo, 

 called by Arrowfmith the Garwoag, ftands the town of 

 Sligo, the only town of note in the county. There are, 

 ho'Vtver, ports at Bailyfidere and Ediy-bridge, at the 

 mouths of the rivers Arrow and Efliy. Hazlewood, the 

 feat of Owen Wyniip, efq. is diltinguiflied for its beauty as 

 well as for agricultural m-.provement, which has been car- 

 ried here probably to a greater extent than at any other place 

 in Ireland. The linen manufaflure has made great progrefs 

 in different parts of the county, efpecially in the vicinity of 

 Ballymote, where it was eftabHlhed by the late Hon. Tho. 

 Fitzniaurice. 



Sligo, a poft-town of Ireland, chief town -of the 

 county of the fame name, and a fea-port, fituatcd at the 

 mouth of the river which flows from Lough Gilly to the 

 bay of Sligo. Veflels of 200 tons can come up to the 

 quays, and the trade of Sligo has been increafing for many 

 years. When Dr. Beaufort publilhed, its population was 

 eftimated at upwards of 8000, the number of houfes being 

 916. The county aflizes are held here, and it fends a mem- 

 ber to the imperial parliament. The niagiftrates are a pro- 

 voft and town-clerk. A caftle was built herein 1 24 J, and 

 foon after a monaitery, ,of which Mr. Archdall has faid, 

 " that the few ruins which remain evince its former fplendour. 

 Three fides of thecloiiler may Itill be feen, covered with an 

 arched roof: the arches and pillars are of extraordinary 

 workmanfliip, and a few of the pillars are ornamented with 

 fculpture. The great call window is beautiful, and the 

 high altar, adorned with relievos, in the Gotliic ftyle. The 

 nave is fpacious, with a paflage round it in the nature of a 

 gallery, fupported by ftone pillars. Tins great and curious 

 monument of antiquity feems to have fallen a prey to the 

 devouring teeth of time, rather than to the hands of man, 

 though Cromwell is faid to have injured it." Sligo is 105 

 miles N.W. from Dublin. 



SLIME, in ylgriculture, a material left by the tides and 

 other waters in different places, which is an ufeful manure. 

 See Ooze. 



SLINCK, or Slinghe, in Geography, a river of Hol- 

 land, which joins the Berchel, near Borckeloe, in the county 

 of Zutphcn. 



SLINE^HEAD. See Slyme-head. 

 SLING, FuNDA, a ilring inftrument, ferving for the 

 calling of ilones, &c. with the greater violence. 



Pliny, 1. Ixvi. c. 5. attributes the invention of the fling to 

 the Phoenicians ; but Vegetius afcribes it to the inhabitants 

 of the Balearic iflands, now called Majorca and Minorca, 

 who were famous in antiquity for the dexterous management 

 of them. Flprus and Strabo fay, thofe people bore three 



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kinds of flings, feme longer, others fiiorter, which they 

 ufed according as their enemies were nearer or more remote. 

 Diodorus Siculus adds, that the firil ferved them for a 

 head-band, the fecond for a girdle, and that the third they 

 conftantly carried with them in their hand. 



In figl t they threw large ftones with fuch violence, that 

 they feemed to be projefted from fome machine, infomuch 

 that no armour could refill their itroke. In befieging a town, 

 they wounded and drove the garrifon from the walls, throw. 

 ing with fuch cxailnefs, that they feldom mifled their mark : 

 this dexterity they acquired by conilant exercife, being 

 trained to it from their infancy, the mothers placing their 

 daily food on the top of a pc'.e, and giving them no more 

 than they beat down with ilones from their flings. This 

 art is Hill, in fome meafure, preferved by the Minorquin 

 (hepherds. The invention of the fling has been erroneoufly 

 afcribed by fome writers to the inhabitants of thefe iflands. 

 Froilfart (vol. i. c. 85.) gives an inllance in which flings 

 were employed for the Englifli by the people of Brittany 

 in a battle fought in that province during the reign of Philip 

 de Valois, between the troops of Walter de Mauni, an Eng- 

 lifli knight, and Louis d'Elpagne, who commanded 6000 

 men in behalf of Charles de Blois, then competitor with the 

 earl of Montfort for the duchy of Brittany. According 

 to the fame author, they were alfo ufed in naval combats. 

 Shngs were ufed in 1572, at the fiege of Sancerre, by the 

 Huguenots, in order to fave their powder. D'Aubigne, 

 who records this faft, fays that they were hence called 

 Sancerre harquebuflfes. Slings were conllrufted for throwing 

 not only ftones, but leaden bullets, and clay-balls, baked or 

 hardened in the fun. They were made of different materials, 

 chiefly flax, hair, or leather, woven into bands, or cut into 

 thongs, broadeft in the centre, for the reception of the 

 ftone or ball, and tapering off gradually towards both ends : 

 with one of thefe flings, a good flinger would, it is faid, 

 throw a (lone 6co yards. An ancient Icelandic treatife, 

 entitled " Speculum Regale," fuppofed to have been written 

 about the 12th century, mentions flings fixed to a ftafF. 



Sling, in Surgery, a well-known bandage for the arm 

 and hand. 



Slings, in Rigging, fliort ropes ufed to hang the yards 

 to the mafts, &c. See Slinging. 



SLINGELANDT, Peter Van, in Biography, was 

 born at Ley den in 1 640. He was a laborious diiciple of 

 Gerard Douw, and wrought in the highly finifhed ftyle of 

 that mafler ; and is as neat in his execution. His pidlures, 

 however, do not poflefs the relifh found in thofe of Gerard, 

 either in compofition or colour ; and they are taftelefs in 

 defign. He is faid to have been molt patiently perfevering 

 and induftrious, employing months and years upon one 

 performance ; and never being fatistied till he found every 

 individual part imitated, however trivial, of any objeft 

 which he had chofen to reprefent. His works are often 

 paffed off for thofe of his mafter, and of Mieris ; and it 

 fometimes demands a confiderable portion of connoiffeur/hip 

 to difcover the impofition. He died in 1691. 



SLINGER's Bay, in Geography, a bay of the Eaft 

 Indian ocean, on the N- coalt of New Ireland. S. lat. 3°, 

 E. long. 1,1°. — Alfo, an inlet of the Pacific ocean, be- 

 tween the iflands of Ramos and St. Juan. 



SLINGING is ufed varioufly at fea ; but chiefly for the 

 hoilting up of calks, or other heavy things, with flings, /. e. 

 contrivances of ropes fpliced into themfelves at either end, 

 with one eye big enough to receive the calk, or any thing 

 to be flung. 



There are other flings which are made longer, and with 

 a fmall eye at each end ; one of which is put over the 



breech 



