Vatna Jökull

It was the scene of a great Sweden, between Lakes Wener and Wetter. Area, 3,307 square miles. Population (1893), estimated, 243,223. Skardo (skär'dō), or Iskardo (is-kär'do). The capital of Baltis tan, Kashmir, situated on the Indus in lat. 35° 17′ N. Skaw, The Skaw (ska), The, or Skagen (skä'gen), Cape. A cape at the northeastern extremity of Jutland, Denmark, in lat. 57° 44′ N., long. 10° 37′ E. Skeat (skēt), Walter William. Born at London, Nov. 21, 1835. Anoted English philologist. He graduated at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1858, and was mathematical lecturer there 1884-1 and Eng lish lecturer 1867-83. He was appointed first Elrington and Bosworth profe or of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge in 1878. He has edited "Parallel Extracts from Twenty-Nine Manu scripts of Piers Plowman" (1866), "The Romans of Partenay, or of Lusignan, otherwise known as the Tale of Melusine" (1866), "The Vision of William concerning Piers Plowman" (1867-85: the three versions of the text with "Richard the Redeles" and "The Crowned King"), "Specimens of English Literature, A.D. 1394-1579" (1871), "Specimens of English Literature, A.D. 1298-1393" (1872), Chaucer's "Treatise on the Astrolabe" (1872), "Seven Reprinted Glo aries" (1873), "Ray's Glo ary Reprinted" (1874), "Tales from the Canterbury Tales" (1874), "Plutarch: being a Selection from the Lives in North's 'Plutarch which illustrate Shakespeare's Plays" (1875), "The Gospel of St. Mark in Gothic, according to the Translation made by Wulfila in the Fourth Century: with a Grammatical Introduction and Glo arial Index" (1882), "Chaucer's Minor Poems" (1888), a complete edition of Chaucer, the publication of which was begun in 1894, etc. He has also written "An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, arHistorical Basis" (1879-81, and "А Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language" (1883, 1886), "The Principles of English Etymology" (first series 1887: with A. L. Mayhew), "A Concise Dictionary of Middle English 1150-1580" (1888), "Primer of English Etymology" (1892), etc. For many of his Early English Text Society publications he wrote critical introductions and supplied notes and glo arial indexes. Skeggs (skegz), Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia. One of the town ladies who imposed upon the innocent family of the Vicar of Wake field, in Goldsmith's novel of that name. Skellefteå Elv (skel-lef'te-â elv). A river in northern Sweden which rises in the Stor-Afvan and flows into the Gulf of Bothnia about lat. 64° 45′ N. Length, about 140 miles. Skelligs (skel'igz), The. A group of rocks southwest of Ireland, in lat. 51°46′ N., long. 10°32′ W. Skelton (skel'ton), John. Born about 1460: died probably in 1529. An English scholar and poet. He was a protégé of Henry VII., a noted scholar, and the tutor of Henry VIII. He took holy orders in 1498, and 25 years was rector of Di in Norfolk: he was sus for frived. Skillet Fork (skil'et fôrk). A river in southern Illinois which joins the Little Wabash near Carmi, in White County. Length, about 100 miles. Skilloot. See Echeloot . Skimpole (skim'pol), Harold. A character in "Bleak House," by Dickens. He was drawn from Leigh Hunt. Skinner (skin'er), Cortlandt. Born in New Jersey, 1728: died at Bristol, England, 1799. A Tory commander in the American Revolution. He was attorney-general of New Jersey in 1775, and at the beginning of the Revolution raised a corps of loyalists the New Jersey Volunteers-which he commanded with the rank of brigadier-general. He removed to England on the conclusion of peace. Skinner, John. Born in Birse, Aberdeen shire, Scotland, in 1721: died June, 1807. A Scottish clergyman and poet. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; and took orders in the Scottish Episcopal Church; and had a charge at Long side, Aberdeen shire. He was persecuted for Jacob it ism. He is known by his songs, collected in 1809: of these "Tullochgorum" was called by Burns "the best Scotch song Scotland ever saw." In 1788 he published an "Ecclesiastical History of Scotland." London, 1623: died