HURONHUSBAND AND WIPE. 



I eoUef*, Cambria**, in which 

 b. obtaawd fellowship iii 17. will. i 174<>, j ul>- 

 M, Sfitttlm ad 1'itoHtt, xviih 

 and nuu-s la 1760, h pah- 

 Commentary oa the Epistle of Horace to 

 ,mv A satirical attack on doctor Jortin, in 

 r of Wirburlao. in an Essay on the Delicacy of 

 Prtswhhtp, be afterwards endeavoured to suppress. 

 ' published Remark* on David Hume's 

 on the Natural History of Religion (8vo). 

 political, with Letters on 



EmaT on the Natural lib 

 Mb DmlogwM. moral and 

 Chivalry awl Humane*, at 



Chivalry and Romance, appeared at different times, 

 from 1759 to 1764, aad were republished collectively, 

 1755 (3 vols. 8vo). None of his works attracted 

 so math notice at the dialogues, which were trans- 

 mlMl iato tienaan by Holly In 1767, he was made 

 I I Mi ma of Gloucester, and, in 1768, commenced 

 a series of sermons on the prophecies, preached at 

 the lecture founded by his friend Warburton at Lin- 

 eolat Ian. Thaw discourses were published under 

 the title of an Introduction to the Study of the Pro- 



JDoncerning the Christian Church, in twelve 

 . In 1775, doctor Hurd was raised 

 to the bishopric of Litchneld and Coventry; and, 

 not long after, was made preceptor to the late king, 

 and hfe brother the duke of Y ork. He was trans- 

 lated to the see of Worcester, in 1781, and, at the 

 same lime, was bestowed on him the confidential 

 liiuation of clerk of the closet. The king afterwards 

 desired to elevate doctor Hurd to the primacy, but 

 be modestly declined the offer. In 1788, he pub- 

 lished an edition of the works of bishop Warburton, 

 in which he omitted some of the productions of his 

 deceased friend. Doctor Parr supplied the editorial 

 deficiencies of bishop Hurd's collection, by Tracts by 

 Warburton and a Warburtonian. In 1795, the right 

 reverend editor himself published a kind of supple- 

 ment to the works of Warburton, in the form of a 

 biographical preface, and he subsequently also pub- 

 lished the correspondence of Warburton, which was 

 bit last literary undertaking. He died in May, 1808. 

 HURON; a lake of North America, 218 miles 

 lung, from east to west, and 180 broad, of very irre- 

 gular form ; about 1 100 miles in circumference, con- 

 Uuiinr many islands and bays ; Ion. 80 10' to 84 30' 

 W. ; fct. 43 20 1 to 46 10* N. It abounds in fish, 

 which are similar to those in lake Superior. Some 

 of the land on its banks is very fertile, and suitable 

 for cultivation; but in other places, barren and 

 mndy. The promontory which divides the lake 

 from lake Michigan, is composed of a vast plain, 

 upwards of 100 miles in length, but varying in its 

 breadth. At the north-east corner, the lake com- 

 mimicatn with lake Michigan, by the straits of 

 Mkhilimackinac. On its tanks are found amazing 

 fatalities of sand cherries, nnd in the adjacent coun- 

 tries, nearly the same fruits as about the other 

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Huron River, or St Clair River, connects lake 

 Huron with lake St Clair. It is 40 miles long, and 

 boat one mile wide. 



IURONS ; a tribe of North American Indians, 

 which wn formerly numerous, and dwelt on the east 

 * lake Huron; but, in 1650, they were driven out 

 by the Irnquoia, and retired to the south-west of lake 

 mm, The Six Nations (the Mohawk tribes or Iro- 

 J < *U,* B e H "Tons father, without doubt because 

 f descended from the H urons, who are now 

 t\A ?5 700 wmrrior *- 1 hey are among the most 

 I the North American Indians, live in good 

 M,havehonM, cows, and swine. and raise grain 

 Their proper name is Wyandott. (See 

 * American Kfview, *oL 154, pp 419^ 42 8 ) 

 roquon are Mnaetimes included under the name 

 at Hamas, but they are a separate people. 



Ill RRICANE (in Spanish hurraean; In French, 

 faragan; in German, orkan) ; a word, according to 

 the ino-i probable supposition, picked up by voy. 

 agers among the natives of die West Indies ; pro- 

 a violent tempest of wind, attended with 

 thunder and lightning, and rain or hail. Hurricanes 

 appear to have an electric origin : at the moment 

 that the electric spark produces a combination of 

 oxygen and hydrogen, a sudden fall of rain or hail is 

 thus occasioned, and a vacuum formed, into which 

 the circumambient air rushes with great rapidity 

 from all directions. The West Indies, the Isle of 

 France, and the kingdoms of Siam and China, are 

 the countries most subject to their ravages. What 

 are called hurricanes, in the more northern latitudes, 

 are nothing more than whirlwinds, occasioned by the 

 meeting of opposite currents. But in the real hur- 

 ricane, all the elements seem to have armed them- 

 selves for the destruction of human labours and of 

 nature herself. The velocity of the wind exceeds 

 that of a cannon ball; corn, vines, sugar canes, 

 forests, houses, every thing is swept away. The 

 hurricane of the temperate zone moves with a 

 velocity of about sixty feet a second; those of 

 the torrid zone, from 150 to 300 feet in the same 

 time. They begin in various ways; sometimes a 

 little black cloud rolls down the mountains, and 

 suddenly unfolds itself and covers the whole hori- 

 zon ; at others, the storm comes on in the shape of 

 a fiery cloud, which suddenly appears in a calm and 

 str^ii 6 skv 



HUSBAND AND WIFE. Of all private contracts, 

 that of marriage is most intimately blended with the 

 social condition of a community, and gives rise to 

 the most numerous and important relations, rights, 

 and duties. It was for this reason, in part, though 

 still more, perhaps, from the desire of domination 

 and jurisdiction on the part of the clergy in former 

 times, that this contract was invested with a peculiar 

 religious character, and made one of the seven sacra- 

 ments of the Catholic church. Marriage, accord- 

 ingly, is often celebrated in places of public religious 

 worship, in both Catholic and Protestant countries ; 

 and the ministers of religion, even in countries where 

 the church has no judicial jurisdiction whatever over 

 the rights arising from this contract, still officiate, for 

 the most part, at its solemnization. (As to the forms 

 of solemnizing marriage, and as to its dissolution, the 

 reader is referred to the respective articles Marriage 

 and Divorce.) The first and one of the most impor- 

 tant rights resulting from this contract, is the con- 

 trol, in a greater or less degree, according to the 

 laws of different countries, which it gives to the hus- 

 band of the person of the wife. The terms in which 

 this right is expressed, in the laws of England, are 

 stronger than those of the civil law, or the modern 

 codes derived from it. But this right is still recog- 

 nised in those codes, of which that of France may be 

 referred to as an example. The old writers in the 

 English law express themselves more directly upon 

 this subject than is grateful to modern ears, putting 

 the authority of the husband upon a footing similar 

 to that of a parent over a child, or a master over a 

 servant; and, in this case, as in those, they very 

 composedly lay down the rules and limits of the 

 exercise of this authority, describing the degree of 

 coercion permitted by the law to be used, and the 

 degree of correction which it allows to be admin- 

 istered by the husband. In modern times, these 

 doctrines are expressed in more cautious and qualified 

 terms, and some writers are careful to reserve to the 

 wife some corresponding rights. However the mu- 

 tual rights of the parties in this respect are to be 

 construed and reconciled, it is certain that the Eng- 

 lish law distinctly recognises the husband's right io 



