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was a difciple of Henry van Balen. At the beginning of 

 his praftice he confined himfelf to fruits, flowers, and other 

 objefts of itill-Hfe ; but he foon advanced to the imitation 

 of animated nature, and in the reprefentation of animals in 

 all the vigour of life and aftion, in fccncs of huntings and 

 fightingjs, if he has had any rival, lie has not been furpalied 

 for freedom, truth, and energy. 



Though Rubens was excellent in fubjefts of this nature 

 himfelf, yet he frequently employed Sneyders to introduce 

 animals into his piftures : and fuch was his excellence in 

 ilouring and execution, that in this dread competition he 

 - ife to a level with his great compeer; and produced an 

 union of fpirit and effcft, which has rarely occurred where 

 two artills have been engaged upon one canvas. Sometimes 

 Rubens, and Jordaens alfo, returned the compliment, and 

 painted figures in Sneyders' affemblages of beafts, dead 

 game, fifh, vegetables, &c. Of thefe combined labours, 

 we have many excellent examples in this country ; and 

 as Sneyders lived to the age of 78, and was an indullrious 

 man, they are not thinly fcattered on the continent. It is 

 impoiTible not to be ftruck with the allonilhing facility with 

 which his works are completed ; or with the delicacies of 

 drawing, the correftnefs and fulnefs of expreffion, he has 

 ^iven to his animals, their ferocity or their alarm, even their 

 ^tTeCiion for their young or their benefaftor. Vandyck 

 painted an excellent portrait of Sneyders, which was in the 

 Orleans coUeftion, and is engraved in the fet of his heads. 

 He himfelf handled the peint, and has left feveral etchings 

 of various animals. They are now become fcarce. He died 

 in 1657, 



SNEYDSBOROUGH, in Geography, a town of Ame- 

 rica, in Amfon county, North Carolina, on the Great 

 Pedee ; 120 miles above George-Town. — Alfo, a pod- 

 town in Richmond county, North Carolina, 418 miles from 

 Walhington. 



SNIADYN, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Bi-zefc; 88 miles E. of Pinik. 



SNIATYN, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia, on 

 the Pruth ; 96 miles N. of Lemberg. N. lat. 48° 33'. E. 

 lung. 25° 52'. 



SNTD-S KARON, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Bothnia. 

 N. lat. 6,-^ 25'. 



SNIEGULKA, in Natural Hiftory, the name given by 

 the common people of Poland to a bird of paffage, that 

 only comes to them in the colder months. 



The name fignifies ihe fnoiv-blrd ; and Rzaczinflii, in his 

 Hillory of Poland, calls it nivalis avis. The people prc- 

 fage from its coming, the mildnefs or feverity of their 

 winter. 



SNIGGLING, a method of fiHiing for eels, chiefly ufed 

 in the day-time, when they are found to abfcond themfelvcs 

 near weirs, mills, or flood-gates ; it is performed thus ; 

 take a Itrong line and hook, baited with a lob or garden- 

 worm, and obferving the holes where the eels lie hid, thrull 

 your bait into them by the help of a (tick, and if there be 

 any, you fhall be fure to have a bite ; and may, if your tack- 

 ling hold, get the largelt eels. 



SNIPE, Gal/inago Minor, or Scolopax Gallinago of Lin- 

 naeus, in Ornithology, a bird well known among the fportf- 

 mcn, and which, though in general a bird of pallage, yet 

 fometimes remains with us the whole year, and builds and 

 breeds here. Its young are fo often found in England, that 

 Mr. Pennant doubts whether it ever entirely leaves this 

 idand. It lives in marfliy places, and builds among reeds in 

 winter, but in the fummer is found in our highell mountains 

 as well as low moors ; it lays four or five eggs at a time, of 

 a dirty olive colour, marked with duflty fpots. 

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When fm'pes are much dilturbed, particularly in the 

 breeding feafon, they foar to a great height, making a 

 peculiar bleating noife, and when they defcend, dart down 

 with great rapidity. The cock is obferved (while liis mate 

 fits on her eggs) to poife himfelf on his wings, making 

 fometimes a whittling and lometimes a drumming noife. 

 Their food is the fame with that of the woodcock, and they 

 are found in every quarter of the globe, and in all climates. 

 See Scolopax Gallmago. 



Thefe birds are eafily taken, by means of lime-twigs in 

 this manner : take fifty or fixty birchen twigs, and lime 

 them all very well together ; take thefe out into places 

 where there are fnipes, and having found the places which 

 they moft frequent, which may be fecn by their dung, fet 

 the twigs in thefe places, at about a yard diftance one from 

 another. Other places are thofe where the water lies open 

 in hard froft and fnowy weather ; in thefe places alfo, and 

 wherever they are fufpefted to come to feed, let more lime 

 twigs be placed in the fame manner. The twigs are not to 

 be placed perpendicularly in the ground, but floping, fome 

 one way, fome another ; the fportfman is then to retire to a 

 diltance, and watch the coming of the birds to thefe places. 

 When they fly to them, they naturally take a fweep round 

 the earth, and by this means they will almoll always be 

 caught by one or other of the twigs. When the firft. fnipe 

 is taken, the fportfman is not to run to take it up, for it 

 will feed with the twig under its wings, and this will be a 

 means of bringing down more of them to the place. When 

 three or four are taken, they may be taken up, only leaving 

 one faft to entice others ; and thus the fport may be con- 

 tinued as long as there are any birds of this kind about the 

 place. It may be very proper, when the twigs are planted, 

 to go about, and beat all the open and watery places near, 

 that they may be raifed from thence, and fly to thofe places 

 where the twigs are placed to receive them. The fnipe, and 

 alfo the woodcock, are by a late aft compreheBded under the 

 clafs of Game. 



Sn'ipe, Great, a fpecies very rarely found in England. 

 See Scolopax Major. 



Snipe, Mire. See Bittern. 



Snipe, Jack. See Jack Snipe, and Scolopax Galli- 

 nula. 



SyiPK-Bi/ls, in Maritime Affairs, a kind of hooks for 

 faltening the axle-tree of chain-pumps to the bitts. 



SNISNITZA, in Geography, a mountain of Bofnia ; 

 8 miles W. of Bofna. 



SNIZORT, a town of the ifland of Skye. N. lat. 57^ 

 27'. W. long. 6'' 20'. 



SNORING, in Medicine, Jlcrtor, ronchus, a found pro- 

 duced by fleeping perfons in particular pofitions, apparently 

 occafioned by the vibrations of the palate in a ftate of re- 

 laxation, when the refpir.ition is performed by iiifpiring and 

 expiring the air through the mouth and the nofc .it the fame 

 time. The founder the deep, and the more completely 

 therefore the parts are relaxed, the louder and moreconllant 

 the fnoring. In the profound coma, which conftitutes the 

 fleep of apoplexy, fnoring is a charafteriftic fymptom ; but 

 the apoplectic llertor is alio commonly accompanied by an 

 additional noife, arifing from the faliva and mucus, which 

 are not fwallowed, being forced through the nollrils, and Hill 

 more impeding tlie refpiration. A iimilar ft:ertor likewife 

 occurs in the profound coma produced by an over-dofe of 

 opium, or of wine and fpirits, which indeed is not alwayi 

 eafily diltinguifhable from common apoplexy, except by the 

 knowledge oi the caufe. 



This fnoring is very different from the noify refpiration, 

 or rattling in the throat, denominated ctrchnot or ccrchoti, 



which 



