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{idiinfiT-boats in Holland, rigged in the fame way, with the 

 addition of a bovv-fprit and jib, and they are there called 

 " pinks." Their fails are generally tanned. 



Sloop of War, is a name given to the fmalleft veflels of 

 war, except cutters. They are rigged either as flups or 

 Inows. See Ratk and Ship. 



SLOOTEN, or Sloten, in Geography, a town of Hol- 

 land, in the department of Fiiefland, capital of Weftergoe, 

 car a large lake called Slooter-Meer. Its fortifications, 

 onllrufted by the confederates, and afterwards deftroyed 

 by the Spaniards, have been enlarged by the ftates of the 

 province, and defended by five baftions. The magiftracy is 

 compofed of four burgo-mafters and three fenators ; lo miles 

 E. of Bolfwaert. N. lat. 52° 55'. E. long. 5° 35'. 



SLOP, Street, in Jgricu/lure, that fort of moiil floppy 

 fubilance, which is raked, fweeped, and fhovelkd up from 

 the ftreets of large towns, for ufe as manure. It is a kind 

 of material which is much made ufe of in this way, in the 

 vicinity of the metropolis, in the neighbourhood of Man- 

 chclter, and of feveral other places, where it is coUefted in 

 large quantities. Near the firll of thefe places the barge- 

 men on the river are faid, in the agricultural report of 

 the county, lo convey to and deliver the flop of the llreets 

 at any diftance which is capable of being reached in one tide, 

 at the price of about four guineas for feventeen or eighteen 

 cart-loads, each load confifting of nearly two tons weight. 

 This is called co/d manure, in contradiitinftion to that of 

 the liable littery fort, which is denominated kol manure, and 

 delivered at the ex pence of one guinea more. 



Slop of this kind is alfo fent from the different wharfs, 

 by the barges, on the river Lea canal, which carry about 

 thirty tons, or fifteen cart-loads ; and delivered, as far as 

 the towns and villages at about thirteen miles diltance, for 

 four pounds. 



At Manchefter, the value of this fort of manure, from 

 almolt nothing, has increafed to a very confiderable fum, in 

 the courfe of the laft twenty-five year;,. 



Moft other large towns might afford vafl fupphes of ma- 

 nure of this nature, and be of great advantage to agricul- 

 ture ; while, at the fame time, they would derive an increafed 

 revenue from it. At prefent much negleft takes place in 

 this rcfpeft, in many places. See Manure. 



SLOPAN, in Geography, a town of Poland, in Vol- 

 hynia ; 52 miles N.E. of Lucko. 



SLOPE-HoLEs, in Canals, are holes or marks made in 

 the points E and L {Platel. Canals, Jigs. 14 and 15.), 

 to direft the navigators, or workmen, where to begin to 

 cut or dig the fides of a canal. 



SLOPES, are fuch parts of the ground as have been dug 

 'iT left floping, as G I and KP {Platel. Canals, Jigs . 3 

 and 6.) Some alfo denominate the fides of the canal, as 

 C B and H I, {Jigs. 14 and 15.) the Hopes. 



SLOPING Alley. See Alley. 



Sloping Banks, in Rural Economy, the fhelving borders 

 of rivers and fea-lhorc3, which are highly ufcful and necef- 

 fary for fecuring and protefting them agamft itrong floods 

 and tides. The more flow and gradual fuch flopcs are 

 made, tlie more beneficial they will be in giving fafety to 

 fuch banks. See \K.\yt.\\- Banks, Securing of, and Embank- 

 ment. 



SLOP-ROOM, in Ship- Building, an apartment on the 

 orlop, appointed for the'purfer to keep the fhip's flops in. 



SLOT, in yfgricullure, a term ufed to fignify any broad, 

 flat, woodf-n bar. 



Slot, in the Sporlfman't Language, a term ufed to ex- 

 preis the mark of the foot of a Hag, or other creature 

 proper for the chacc, in the clay or earth, by which they 



are able to guefs how long the creature has been crone by, 

 and which way he went. The flot, or treading of the ftag, 

 is very nicely ftudied on this occafion. If the flot be large, 

 deep printed in the ground, and with an open cleft, and, 

 added to thefe marks, there is a large fpace between mark 

 and mark, it is certain that the flag is an old one. If there 

 be obferved the flots, or treadings of two, the one long, 

 and the other round, and both of one lize, the long flot is 

 always that of the larger beail. 



There is alfo another way of knowing the old ones from 

 the young ones by the treading ; which is, that the hinder 

 feet of the old ones never reach to their fore-feet, whereas 

 thofe of the young ones do. 



Old flags alfo are long-jointed, and they never tread 

 double or falfely, as the young ones do, becaufe the ten- 

 dons, that hold the joints of their feet, are ilronger ; but 

 the feet of the young ones are fometimes forced, for want 

 of thefe Itrong finews, to turn away double. 



It is to be obferved alfo, that there is a great difference 

 between the flot of a itag or hart, and that of a hind ; for 

 there is no hart of the fecond head fo young, but that he 

 leaves a larger and wider flot than the hind, excepting when 

 the hinds are big with young, for on th.it occafion their 

 claws will open as wide as thofe of the hart. 



Another method of knowing the age of a flag is by his 

 fumets, though fome general rules are to be known, before 

 any thing can be judged from this article. Thefe are, that 

 in April and May they call their fumets as it were in cakes ; 

 and in June and July they call them in thin, long, and large 

 crotels ; and from thence to the end of Augult they hold 

 the fame form and fize ; but they are in this laft; month al- 

 ways hard and knotty. In all thefe cafes, the largell and 

 longeil fumets are efteemed to be the marks of the largell 

 and oldell flags. If they have been diilurbed, or if they 

 have received any hurt, they ufually call them fharp at one 

 end, and dry. This alfo is conftantly the cafe, when their 

 new horns are juft grown to their hardnefs, and tliey rub 

 them againfl the trees to get off the cracked membranes, 

 which were the velvetings in their firfl flate. 



There is always alfo a difference between the fumets of 

 the morning and thofe of the evening : thofe made at night, 

 when they go to relief, are better digelted, and confequently 

 moifler than thole made in the morning ; becaufe having 

 taken their rell all day, there is a more perfidl digellion 

 made than can be in the night, as they are, during that 

 time, fceking food. 



Tiiere are alfo fcvcral other ways of judging of the 

 growth and fize of a flag, as by his carriage, or bearings, 

 according to the huntfman's phrafe ; that is, according to 

 the breaking of the tender branches of trees which he makes 

 with his horns in pafTing through. When the boughs are 

 found biuifed and broken very high, and to a good width, 

 there is no doubt of his being an old one ; but this judgment 

 is not to be made in the months of March, April, May, and 

 June, becaufe their horns are at that time cither wholly 

 wanting, or they are young and velvety. The height of 

 the creature's entries into the woods is alfo another mark of 

 his fize ; for the old ones are always proud and Itately, and 

 go in erett, but the young ones will creep. 



The older the Hag is, the fooner he goes to fray, and 

 the larger are the trees he choofcs for this ufe ; the young 

 onef go later into it, and always choofe the weaker and 

 lower trees. Notwithflanding that, after the fixth year, 

 the age is not certainly known by the honi':, as there is, 

 after this time, no increafe in the number of their branches ; 

 yet a probable gucfs may be made from their being all 

 thicker and more robufl, and the tops more upen. 



Slot, 



