_Sleck Stone, Meaning of_ (Vol. v., p. 140.).--I have just found a passage in Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ which proves that R. C. H. was correct in the remarks he made on these words, viz. that they ought to have been printed _sleek-stone_, and that they were the name of an instrument used for _smoothing_ or _polishing_, and not for _sharpening_: "The ebon stone which goldsmiths use to sleeken their gold with, born about or given to drink, hath the same properties, or not much unlike."--_Anat. of Mel._, Part ii. sec. iv. mem. 1. subs. 4. [Blake, one vol. 8vo. MDCCCXXXVI. P. 437.] Lady Macbeth says: "Come on; Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial 'mong your guests to-night." _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 2. C. FORBES. Temple. _Slick_ or _sleek stones_ are used by curriers to remove wrinkles and other irregularities in, and to smoothen the surface of hides and skins, after they have been converted into leather by the tanner. The stone which is considered to be the best for this purpose is quarried in the neighbourhood of Kendal. The currier's _sleek stone_ is an oblong square plate, measuring six inches in length by four inches in breadth, and half an inch in thickness. One of the longer edges of the stone is fixed into a groove in a wooden handle or stock, and hence it is also commonly called a _stock stone_. The leather being spread out upon a table, the stock is held in both hands, and the opposite edge of the stone is pressed upon and rubbed over the surface of the leather. In a subsequent part of the process of currying the workman uses, in like manner, a _slicker_ or _sleeker_ made of steel, and finishes his work with a glass _sleeker_. J. L. C. _Tenor Bell of Margate_ (Vol. i., p. 92.; Vol. v., p. 319.).--The weight of this "ponderous tenor bell" is not mentioned; but there does not seem to be any particular "obscurity," whatever there may be of strangeness in the alleged mode of its transit by water. By the terms "mill-cog" of the poetaster is doubtless to be understood the _cog-wheel_ of the miller, viz. that which more or less directly connects the motive agent with the shaft carrying the stones. Persons who happen to have noticed the large size and ponderous construction of the main cog-wheel in many an ancient flourmill will easily imagine that if set afloat it would carry a great weight; especially if prepared, as a missionary to the Hudson's Bay territories told me a small cart-wheel was rigged to transport him over the rivers, viz. by stretching a large skin over its area. It was, in all likelihood, to some contrivance of this kind that John de Dandelion and his dog have become so picturesquely and permanently connected with the history of Margate in "traditionary rhyme." D.