SLAP, farm, with well once reputed sacred, in Turriff parish, Aberdeenshire.
SLAPIN, sea-loch, 4 miles long, over-hung by Blabhein Mountain, on south coast of Isle of Skye.
SLATEFORD, viUage, 2 miles south-west of Edinburgh. It stands on Water-of-Leith at near juxtaposition of carriage bridge, canal aqueduct, and railway via-duct, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Mid-Lothian, a railway station, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 158 scholars. Pop. 417.
SLATEFORD, Forfarshire.
SLATE ISLANDS, group, 10 miles long and 3J miles broad, separated by narrow straits from one another and from Nether Lorn, Argyleshire. They consist more or less largely of fissile clay slate, include extensive slate quarries, and comprehend Luing, Shuna, Torsay, Seil, Easdale, and Balnahuaigh.
SLEAT, parish, containing Isle Oransay post office village, in south-east end of Skye, Inverness-shire. It is separated from Inverness-shire mainland by Sleat Sound, 21 miles long and from J mile to 6J miles wide ; includes a peninsula 14 miles long, extending south-westward to termination in Sleat Point ; and measures 21 miles in total length, and about 6 miles in greatest breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 3665. Pop. 2060. The north-west border is a high hill-ridge, and much of the interior is low bleak moor ; but the seaboard of the peninsula, all round, is low and populous. The only mansion is Lord Macdonald's seat of Armadale ; and the chief antiquities are remains of two old castles. The churches are Established and Free. There are 5 public schools for 420 scholars, and all are new.
SLEDMUIR, village in Kirriemuir parish, Forfarshire.
SLEISCHILLIS, ancient district, com-prising Strathoikell down to Bonar-Bridge, on mutual border of Sutherland and Ross-shire. It was given in 12th century, by the Earls of Sutherland, to the Bishops of Caithness.
SLEITILL, lake in Reay parish, Caithness.
SLIABHACH, SLIOCH, or SLEUGACH, mountain, 3216 feet high, overhanging north side of upper part of Loch Maree, in Ross-shire.
SLIABHGAOIL, hill, associated with ancient legend, in Kilcalmonell parish, Argyleshire.
SLIACH, battlefield of 1307, on mutual border of Drumblade and Huntly parishes, Aberdeenshire.
SLICKLY, burn, entering Wester Lake, in Wick parish, Caithness. _ SLIDDRY, rivulet, running to the sea, in south-west of Arran Island Buteshire.
SLIGHSHOUSES, estate in Bunkle parish, Berwickshire.
SLIGACHAN, sea-loch, hamlet, and glen in Isle of Skye. The loch opens opposite south end of Raasay Island, goes 3f miles south-westward, and has an extreme width of about mile. The hamlet lies at the loch's head, and has a post office under Broadford, and a good inn. The glen commences in vicinity of the hamlet, strikes 5 miles southward to vicinity of Lochs Coruisk and Scavaig, is all narrow and partly a gorge, and shares in the wild alpine scenery of Cuchullin Mountains.
SLIN, lake, 2 miles long, about 2 miles east-south-east of Tain, Ross-shire.
SLIOCH.
SLIPFERFIELD, notable small lake, surrounded by extensive moor, in Linton parish, Peeblesshire.
SLISBEG, vale in Logierait parish, Perthshire.
SLITRIG, rivulet, running about 10 miles northward to the Teviot at Hawick, Roxburghshire. It makes a descent of about 1000 feet, rushes along a narrow hill-screened vale, descends often in sudden strong freshets, is followed upward by the North British branch railway toward Car-lisle, and abounds in associations with legendary stories.
SLOCH-A-CHORRY, coast cavern at Tighary Point, near parochial church, in North Uist, Outer Hebrides. It has a vertical aperture about 12 feet wide, and it discharges thence, in times of storm, a vast and very lofty jet-d'eau.
SLOCHD - A - MHADAIDH, coast tunnel in Kilmuir parish, Isle of Skye. It commences in a natural arch, swept by the sea ; contains thence a circular pool, open to the sky ; and curves thence, in contracted breadth and height, some hundred yards backward to the shore.
SLOCHMUICHT, wild perilous pass through Monadhleadh Mountains, between Freeburn and Duthill, Inverness-shire.
SLOCH OF DESS.
SLOHABERT, village in Kirkinner parish, Wigtonshire.
SLOY, lake in Glensloy at base of Benvoirlich, 4 miles south-west of head of Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire. The clan Macfarlane took their war-cry from it, 'LochSloy! LochSloy!'
SLUGS OF ACHRANNIE.
SLUIE, promontory in Dyke parish, north-west corner of Elginshire.
SMADDY, lake in Crossmichael parish, Kirkcudbrightshire .
SMAILHOLM, village and parish on north border of Roxburghshire. The village stands 6 miles west-north-west of Kelso, is ancient and straggling, consists of three sections, East-Third, West-Third, and Overtown, and has a post office under Kelso, a parochial church, and a public school with about 82 scholars. The parish measures 4J miles by 2|, and comprises 4194 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 6192. Pop. 446. The surface exhibits variety of flat and rising-ground, and is nowhere higher than about 500 feet above sea-level. Smailholm Tower is a large Border keep, was erected in 1535, is visible at a great distance, and stands on Sandyknowe farm, where Sir Walter Scott spent part of his boyhood.
