Six Nations

See Iroquois.

Skager Rack

Skager Rack ("the crooked strait of Ska-gen "), an arm of the North sea or German ocean, lying between the Danish peninsula of Jutland and the coast of Norway, and connecting the Cattegat with the North sea. It extends from N. E. to S. W.; length about 160 m., breadth nearly 80 m. It is much deeper on the Norwegian than on the Danish coast, ranging on the former from 150 to 200 fathoms, and on the latter from 30 to 40. It is subject to severe storms. The harbors are all on the Norwegian coast.

Skamania

Skamania, a S. county of Washington territory, bordering on Oregon, bounded S. by Columbia river and drained by several streams; area, 1,800 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 133. The surface is generally mountainous, with fertile valleys. The Cascade mountains traverse it from N. to S. Mt. St. Helens, in the N. W. part, is 9,750 ft. high. Capital, Cascades.

Skate, A Fish

See Ray.

Skerrivore

See Lighthouse, vol. x., p. 460.

Skiddaw

Skiddaw, a mountain near the centre of Cumberland, England, 3,022 ft. in height. It has the lake of Bassenthwaite Water on its west. Though there are some mountains in the same county of greater elevation, Skiddaw is the most imposing, as it stands so as to be seen at one view from the base to the summit.

Skipjack

See Bluefish, and Bonito.

Skull

See Comparative Anatomy, and Skeleton.

Skylark

See Lark.

Slave Coast

Slave Coast, a part of the coast of Upper Guinea, W. Africa, between the rivers Volta and Cameroons, comprising a small part of the British Gold Coast protectorate, the coast of Dahomey, the British colony of Lagos, and the coast of Benin and Calabar. It derived its name from the trade in slaves, formerly the chief traffic of the coast. (See Guinea).

Slays, Or Silaves

See Slavic Race and Languages.

Slovens, Or Sloventzi

See Winds.

Smartweed

See Polygonum.

Smelting

See Copper Smelting, Iron Manufacture, Lead, and Silver.

Smibert, Or Smybert, John

Smibert, Or Smybert, John, a Scottish painter, born in Edinburgh about 1684, died in Boston, Mass., in 1751. He studied in Italy for three years, and attained a respectable standing as a portrait painter in London. In 1728 he accompanied Dean Berkeley to America, after whose return he settled in Boston. He painted most of the contemporary worthies of New England and New York. His most celebrated picture is a large portrait piece representing Berkeley and several members of his family, together with the artist himself, on their first landing in America. It is now in the possession of Yale college.

Smoke Tree

See Sumach.

Snake

See Serpent.

Snake Bird

See Darter.

Snakes, A Family Of American Indians

See Shoshones.

Sneyders

See Snyders.

Sneyders, Or Snyers, Francis Snyders

Sneyders, Or Snyers, Francis Snyders, a Flemish painter, born in Antwerp in 1579, died there in 1657. He is celebrated for his pictures of animals and hunting scenes, excelling in those which represent violent action. He produced many pictures jointly with Rubens, Jordaens, and others, they executing the human figures and Snyders the animals.