a beautiful bright red colour. In painting in water-colours, minium mixed with a little vermilion produces a good scarlet; but if a flower in a print is to be painted a scarlet colour, the lights as well as the shades should be covered with minium, and the shaded parts finished with carmine, which will produce an admirable scarlet.

**SCARLET-FEVER.** See Medicines, no 337—339.

**SCARP,** in fortification, is the interior talus or slope of the ditch next the place, at the foot of the rampart.

**SCARF,** in heraldry, the scarf which military commanders wear for ornament. It is borne somewhat like a battoon finister, but is broader than it, and is continued out to the edges of the field, whereas the battoon is cut off at each end.

**SCARPANTO,** an island of the Archipelago, and one of the Sporades, lying to the S.W. of the isle of Rhodes, and to the N.E. of that of Candia. It is about 22 miles in length, and 8 in breadth; and there are several high mountains. It abounds in cattle and game; and there are mines of iron, quarries of marble, with several good harbours. The Turks are masters of it, but the inhabitants are Greeks.

**SCARPE,** a river of the Netherlands, which has its source near Aubigny in Artois, where it flows Arras and Douay; after which it runs on the confines of Flanders and Hainault, passing by St Amand, and a little after falls into the Scheld.