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Slot, Dranu'mg on the. See Drawing. 



SLOTH, in Zoology. See Sloath. 



SLOUGEA, in Geography, a town of Tunis, on the 

 north fide of the Mejerdah ; 12 miles N.E. of Tuber- 

 foke. 



SLOUGH, a hamlet in the parifhes of Upton and Stoke 

 Pogeis, and hundred of Stoke, county of Buckingham, 

 England, is 21 miles W. from London, and i mile N. of 

 Eton. This place is feated on the great weftern road, and 

 has long been the refidence of Dr. Herfchel, the celebrated 

 aftronomer, who manufaftured here fome of the larged re- 

 flefted telefcopes ever known. One of thefe, forty feet in 

 length, ftill remains in the garden attached to his houfe ; 

 and by the ufe of this very powerful inftrument, the doftor 

 has made feveral important difcoveries in the planetary fyf- 

 tem. A particular account of this telefcope, with eighteen 

 engravings, is publifhed in the Philofophical Tranfaftions 

 for 1795. Beauties of England, vol. i. by J. Britton 

 and E. W. Brayley, 1801. Lyfons's Magna Britannia, 

 vol. i. 4to. 



Slough, a deep rut or hole in a road or carriage-way. 

 The call flvin of a fnake, the damp of a coal-pit, and the 

 fear of a wound, are alfo called by the fame appellation. 



Slough of a tuild Boar, is the bed, foil, or mire, in 

 which he wallows, or in which he lies in the day-time. 



SiLOvan-Silver, in Old Writers, a rent paid in fome 

 places in lieu of certain days work in harveit, heretofore re- 

 ierved to the lord from his tenants. 



SLOUTH, or Slought, in Hunting, is ufed for a com- 

 pany of fome forts of wild beafts : as, a flouth of bears. 



SLOW Fevers. See Fever. 



Slow Pulfe. See Pulse. 



Slow -Worm, the Engliih name of the accilia, or anguis 

 fragilis of Linnxus, called alfo the bltnd-'worm, and by 

 fome the deaf adder, which, in the Linnaean fyllem, is a 

 fpecies of the anguis or fnake ; the ciecitia bemg a diitinft 

 genus of ferpents. See Serpentes. 



It is diftinguiflied from all our fnakes by its fmallnefs, 

 and by the (hape of its tail, which runs out a great way 

 beyond the anus, and yet is blunt and confiderably thick at 

 the end. 



The colour of the back is cinereous, marked with fmall 

 lines compofed of minute black fpecks ; the fides are of a 

 reddifh call ; the belly duflcy ; both marked like the back ; 

 the tongue is broad and forky ; the teeth fmall, but nu- 

 merous, and the fcales fmall. It is flow in its motion, and 

 inoffenfive in its nature. 



Thefe fnakes lie torpid in the winter, and are fometimes 

 found in vaft numbei-s twined together. 



It refembles the viper in its manner of producing its 

 young, which are brought forth aUve. 



Dale, from Gefner, gives an account of theriaca being 

 prepared of this ferpent and treacle water, for a fudorific in 

 the plague. James. 



SLUCH, or Slutch, in Agriculture, a term often applied 

 to fignify a foft liquid muddy fort of material, found in dif- 

 ferent fituations where water ftagnates. 



SLUCHAU, or T.SHLUCHOW, in Geography, a town of 

 Pruffian Pomerelia ; 44 miles S.S.W. of Dantzig. 



SLUCK, or Sluckz, a town of Lithuania, in the pala- 

 tinate of Novogrodek, in which are three Greek churches, 

 one for Roman Catholics, one for Lutherans, and one for 

 Calvinills; 68 miles E.S.E. of Novogrodek. N. lat. 52° 

 50'. E. long. 27" 33'. 



SLUDGE, m Agriculture. See Sluss. 



SLUDKA, in Geography, a town of Ruffiaj in the go- 

 vernment of Perm ; 8 miles S. of Obvinfk. 



SLUDS, a terra ufed by the miners in Cornwall for 

 half-roafted ores. 



SLUE, To, is to turn any cylindrical or conical piece of 

 timber about its axis, without removing it. This term, in 

 fea-language, is generally applied to the movement by 

 which a mad or boom is turned about, in its cap or boom- 

 iron. 



SLUG. See LiMAX. 



Slug, in Agriculture and Gardening, a deftruftive animal 

 of the fnail kind, which is highly mifchievous in the field, 

 as well as the garden, by eating off the yflung flems of tender 

 plants. There are feveral different kinds of thefe little 

 animals. The while and brown leathery kind often even 

 deflroy the flrong flems of young cabbage, and other fimilar 

 plants. The deftruAion of them has been fuggefled to be 

 effefted by the ufe of tar-water, fprinkled over the ground ; 

 and alfo by having recourfe to lime, in the preparation of tlie 

 land for fuch crops. They conceal themfelves in the holes 

 and crevices, only making their appearance early in morn- 

 ings and late in the evenings. The white flug or fnail is 

 likewife very deflruftive to young turnip crops, by rihng 

 out of the holes of the foils, on wet and dewy mornings 

 and evenings. Rolling the ground with a heavy implement, 

 before the fun rifes, has been advifed as a means of dellroying 

 them in thefe cafes. 



Slugs of this fort are likewife very deftruftive, in fome 

 diflrifts, to the roots of corn crops, during the day-time, in 

 the early fpring months, while they he concealed in the 

 ground, by eating and devouring them ; and by coming out 

 in the evenings, and during the night-time, to commit ra- 

 vages on the blades, and other parts above the ground. 

 Numbers of them are fometimes met with upon the fame 

 plant, and they may eafily be extirpated and removed from 

 the land by the above praftice, while they are at vpork, 

 efpecially in moon-light feafons, and any further injury to 

 the crops be guarded againfl. Warm moill weather is al- 

 ways a great encouragement to their coming out of their 

 hiding-places ; and advantage fhould conftantly be taken of 

 it for their extermination, as they fuddenly retire under 

 ground during the time of cold. 



The flrong lands of other places are occafionally much 

 infefled with them in the pea, bean, and rye crops and 

 ftubbles, as well as clover roots, when a wheat crop is put 

 in upon them. The flugs, in fome cafes, are of about half 

 an inch in length, having their backs of a blueifh caft in 

 the flcin part, and their under parts wholly of a white ap- 

 pearance. 



A mixture of fulphur and lime, made fo as to be con- 

 veniently applied, has been found to be highly deftruftive 

 of flugs in general. 



The ufe of hme-water has lately been advifed as an ex- 

 cellent and cheap mode of dellroying flugs in gardens, as 

 well as fields, in the fecond volume of the Tranfaftions of 

 the Horticultural Society of London. It is found to be 

 far preferable, in this intention, to quick-hme, which is 

 liable to become too foon faturated with moiilure, and ren- 

 dered ineffedlual. The manner of employing the water is 

 after it has been newly made from flone lime, by means of 

 hot water poured upon it, to pour it through the fine rofe 

 of a watering-pot over the flugs, which have been coUefted 

 by means of pea-haulm, or fome other fimilar fubllance, 

 laid down on the ground in portions, at the diltance of 

 about a pole from each other. In proper weather, the 

 flugs foon coUeft in this way, in great numbers, for fhelter 

 as well as to get food. When a boy takes up the fub- 

 flance, and by a gentle fhake leaves the whole of the flugs 

 on the ground, another perfon then pours a fmall quantity 



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