a denomination given to all sorts of balls for firearms; those for cannon being of iron, and those for guns and pistols of lead. Case Shot formerly consisted of all kinds of old iron, nails, musket-balls, and stones, which were used as above.

Shot of a Cable, on ship-board, is the splicing of two cables together, that a ship may ride safe in deep waters and in great roads; for a ship will ride easier by one shot of a cable, than by three short cables out ahead.

SHOUMSHU or CHOUMOO, one of the Kurile islands, the nearest to Asia, thirty-six miles in length and twenty in breadth. It contains mines, which yield a small quantity of silver. There are large lakes abounding with fish, and the natives have an herb from which they extract brandy. There are only forty-four male inhabitants, who pay tribute to Russia. It is ten miles south from Kamtschatka.