SKYREBURN, brook and hamlet in Anwoth parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. The brook rises among mountains, runs about 5 miles southward to Fleet Bay, and some-times swells into river volume. The hamlet lies on the brook, and has a post office under Gatehouse.
SLACK, burn, running from Bengairn Hill north-north-westward to the Dee in south-western vicinity of Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire.
SLACKHEAD, place in Enzie quoad sacra parish, Banffshire. It has a public school with about 113 scholars.
SLADE, place, with flagstone quarry, in Carmylie parish, Forfarshire.
SLAGINNAN, deep cavern in wild narrow glen near Duniphail Castle, in Edenkillie parish, Elginshire.
SLAINS, parish, containing Collieston post office village, on Buchan coast, Aberdeenshire. It includes a cuneiform peninsula between Ythan river and the sea, measures about 6J miles by 4J, and com-prises 9124 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 6925. Pop. 1256. The coast is fully 6 miles long ; about a third of it is sandy beach ; and the rest consists of cavernous shattered cliffs from 170 to 200 feet high, and includes a stalactitic cave, and a long high-arched cavern. The surface is remarkably diversified, but nowhere hilly. Slains lake covers about 70 acres. The chief residence is Leask House, and chief antiquities are extensive ruins of Old Slains Castle, and remains of a mediaeval chapel. The churches are Established and Free. There are 3 schools for 225 scholars, and 2 of them for 150 are new.
SLAINS, hill in Kinneff parish, Kincardineshire.
SLAINS CASTLE, seat of the Earl of Errol on brink of sea-cliff, 6J miles south-south-west of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. It dates from time of James VI., was mostly rebuilt in 1836, and commands a very grand sea view ; and it succeeded Old Slains Castle, 5 miles to the south-south-west, destroyed in 1594 by command of James VI.
SLAM, lake, overhung by Benstomina, in Tongue parish, Sutherland.
SLAMANNAN, town and parish on south-east border in Stirlingshire. The town stands 5 miles south-south-west of Falkirk, and 13 by railway west-south-west of Borrowstownness, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Stirlingshire, a railway station, a banking office, Established, Free, and Methodist churches, and a public school with about 207 scholars. Pop. 1644. The parish contains also the villages of Binniehill, Burnrow, Limerigg, and Southfield. Its length is 6^ miles ; its greatest breadth 4J miles ; its area 7062 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 21,086. Pop., quoad cirilia, 5850; quoad sacra, 6428. The Avon separates about one-third of the area on the north from about two-thirds of the area on the south. The lands on each side of it, to the width of about a mile, are low and alluvial ; and those farther off rise, in undulations and ridges, to a maximum elevation of fully 600 feet. Coal and ironstone of superior quality abound, and are largely worked. Chief seats are Balquhatson and Glenellrig. There are 6 schools for 1029 scholars, and 3 of them for 695 are new.
SLAMANNAN RAILWAY, railway, 12| miles long, from a point in Muiravonside parish, Stirlingshire, through Slamannan parish, onward to a junction with the Ballochney. It was opened in 1840, but it became amalgamated with the Monkland system, and went through that to the North British.
