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very moving and plaintive cry, fo that beads of prey avoid 

 it with horror. 



The found of its voice feems only to exprefs the word 

 hail, for which reafon the Brafilians call him by that name ; 

 but he ufually repeats the found about fix times together, 

 defcending, as if one fhould fing la, fol, fa, mi, re, tit. 



Its look is fo piteous as to move compaffion, and accom- 

 panied with tears. Whatever he takes hold of, he does it 

 fo ftrongly, or rather fo ftiffly, that he will fometimes fleep 

 fccurely while he hangs at it. 



Clulius, Marcgrave, Pifo, and others, have given defcrip- 

 tions of this animal, but they none of them mention the 

 length of his fore-feet ; which, according to the animal 

 preferved in the Mufeum of the Royal Society of London, 

 is double that of the hinder pair. 



From the (hag of his body, the fhape of his legs, and his 

 having httle or no tail, as alfo from the flownefs of his gait, 

 and his climbing up trees as little bears ufe to do, he feems 

 to come near the bear-kind, from which he differs chiefly in 

 having but three claws upon a foot. 



This creature breeds principally in Florida and Brafil. 

 Grew's Muf. p. II. 



The two-toed floth has a round head ; Ihort projefting 

 ncfe ; ears like the human ; two long ftrong claws on the 

 fore-feet, and three on the hinder ; long and rough hair on 

 the body, in fome parts curled and woolly ; in fome, of a 

 pale red above, and cinereous below ; in others, of a yel- 

 lowilh-white below, cinereous-brown above ; it has no tail. 

 This animal inhabits South America, and the ifland of 

 Ceylon. Pennant. 



SLOATS of a Cart, the under pieces which keep the 

 bottom of the cart together. 



SLOB-FuKROWiNG, in /Igriculture, a particular method 

 of ploughing land. 



SLOBNA, in Geography,' a town of the duchy of VVar- 

 faw ; 25 miles S. of Kalilh. 



SLOBNICK, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 24 miles 

 N.N.W. of Pofen. 



SLOBODSKAIA, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Ekaterinoflav ; 64 miles N.E. of Ekaterinoflav. 



SLOBODSKOI, a town of RulTia, in the government 

 of Viatka ; 20 miles N.N.E. of Viatka. N. lat. 58° 40'. 

 E. long. jo° 44'. 



SLODTZ, Ren^ Michael, in Biography, furnamed 

 Michael Angelo, a fculptor, was born at Paris in 1705. 

 He lludied under his father, who was a native of Antwerp, 

 after which he went to Rome, and upon his return was ad- 

 mitted a member of the Academy of Paris, where he died 

 in 1764. One of his moll confidtrr^ble works is the monu- 

 ment of Languet, in the church of St. Snlpice. 



SLOE, Prunus Sylvejlris, the Enghlh name for the wild 

 plum. See Prunus. 



The juice exprelTed from the fruit of the floe-bufh while 

 unripe, iiifpilTated by a gentle heat to drynefs, is called Ger 

 man acacia. It differs from the Egyptian moil remarkably 

 in this property, that it gives out its ailringency in good 

 meafure to reftified fpirit as well as to water, v.-hereas that 

 of the other is not at all dlflbluble in fpirit. 



A conferve of this fruit has been prepared in the (hops, 

 by mixing the pulp, prelled out through a fieve after the 

 floes have been lleeped in water over the fire, till they are 

 fufiiciently foft without burfting, with thrice its weight of 

 double refined fugar. 



In fome places, the unripe floes are dried in an oven, and 

 then fermented with wines or malt liquors, for a reftringent 

 diet drink in alvine and uterine laxities. The bark, both 

 of the branches and roots, is^iud to be fuccefsfully given in 



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intermitting fevers, and it has been recommended by fome as 

 equal to the Peruvian bark. It is apparently a ilron^ 

 flyptic. The watery infufion of the flowers, fweetened 

 with fugar, or made into a fyrup, is faid to be a very ufeful 

 purgative for children. Lewis's Mat. Med. 



Sloe- IVorm, in Natural Hi/lory, the name of an infeft 

 found on the leaves of the floe, or black-thorn, and fome- 

 times on thofe of the garden plum. 



This, and a like worm, found on the leaves of the oak, 

 both remarkable for the hairs which cover them, each of 

 which is forked, or divided into two at the ends, are ufually 

 efteemed caterpillars, but they are in reahty animals of a very 

 different clafs : the caterpillar has, at the utmoft, but fix- 

 teen legs ; thefe have twenty-two, and have all the other 

 charatlers of that clafs of infefts called by the French na- 

 turahfts fmijfes chenilles, or baflard caterpillars. 



All the animals of that clafs are very remarkable for the 

 different figure they make after the lad change of their fliins ; 

 but this is in none feen fo obvioufly, a- in thefe two fpecies : 

 that of the oak is of a greeniih colour, and its hairs, which 

 are fo (liff that they almoft deferve the name of fpines, are 

 black ; that of the floe is of a greyifli hue, and its fpines 

 longer, and of a deep brown : every one of thefe is, towards 

 the extremity, divided into two, in the manner of tlie tines 

 of a fork. Thefe give the animal a very remarkable fie;ure, 

 and are call off with the feveral Ikins, while the new Ikins 

 have others in their place ; but in the lall change, before 

 that into the nymph tlate, the change made in the creature 

 is fuch, that it could never be fufpefted to be the fame 

 animal by any one, who was not an eye-witnefs of the 

 change. 



The creature in this, throwing off its fl<in, becomes per- 

 feAly fmooth, and of a dirty yellowilh colour, with not the 

 flighted variegation on it, nor the lead appearance even of 

 the remains of the fpines. In this date it remains till it goes 

 into the nymph date ; and from that, after about fixteen 

 days, it comes out in the fliape of a four-winged fly. The 

 whole procefs of the change is tlie fame, in the two fpecies 

 of the oak and the floe ; but the flies they produce are very 

 different. Reaumur's Hid. Inf. vol. ix. p. 119. See 

 Prunus, in Gardening. 



SLOKUM'S LsLAND, in Geography, 3 fmall ifland in 

 Barndaple bay, near the coad of Maffachufetts. 



SLOMIG'RODEK, a town of Audrian Poland, in 

 Galicia ; 20 miles W. of Lemberg. 



SLONEK, a town of the duchy of Warfaw, on the Vif- 

 tula ; 15 miles N.W. of Ploczk. 



SLONIM, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Novogrodek ; 32 miles S.S.W. of Novogrodek. 



SLONITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Schlan ; 

 4 miles S. of Schlan. 



SLOOP, in Sea-Language, a fmall veffel furniflied with 

 one mad, the main-fail of which is attached to a gaff above, 

 to the mad on its foremod edge, and to a long boom below i 

 by which it is occafionally fliifted to either quarter. 



Sloops, fmacks, barges, and hghters, that pafs through 

 bridges, have the mall confined in a trunk or wooden cup, 

 above the deck, and fadened in by an iron drap on the aft- 

 fide. Some have a drong iron hinge at the heel of the malt, 

 or a bolt through the heel ; fo that it can be lowered at 

 pleafure, by the llav-tackle eafing away the fall by degrees. 

 To raife the mad, the fall is brought to the windlafs, and 

 hove upon, until the mad is up in its place : the fall is then 

 dopped to the windlafs bitts. 



Dutch Jloops are fmall veffels, ufed upon the canals in 

 Holland, with one mad, on which are hoided a fprit-fail 

 and a fore-fail, fet clofe to the dem. There are many 



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