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mariner of training a hawk ; falconers had a language pecu- 

 liar, in which they conversed and wrote, iv. 96, &c. 



Hawk, (sparrow) pursues the thrush and the linnet, iv. 66. 

 Said to be the boldest and best of all others for the chase, 

 107. 



Hawk, (goss) and sparrow-hawk, unfit for training ; taught to 

 fly at game, but little obtained from them, iv. 107- 



Head (of man) externally and internally different from that of 

 all other animals, the monkey kind excepted, i. 4-28. 

 Whence originally the flat heads of the American Indians, 

 ii. 95. Of quadrupeds, different from each other, but 

 adapted to their several ways of living, and how, 155. In 

 all birds, except nocturnal, the head smaller, and less pro- 

 portioned to the body, than in quadrupeds, iv. 8. Of the 

 great Greenland whale, makes a third of its bulk, v. 34. 



Hearing, extreme delicacy of this sense in birds, iv. 9. That 

 sense in whales, v. 36. 



Hearse, name of the female of the stag, the second year, ii. 

 317. 



Heat, Boerhaave considered it so prejudicial to health, that 

 he never went near a fire, i. 277. 



Hecla, the bellowings of that volcano believed by the inhabi- 

 tants of Iceland to be the cries of the damned, i. 78. 

 , Hedge-hog, the most harmless of animals ; its description ; 

 usual appearance upon the approach of danger ; to disgust 

 its enemy from pursuit, sheds its urine, the smell of which 

 is sufficient to send him off; sleeps by day, and ventures 

 out by night ; places where found ; its food ; does not suck 

 cattle ; are not hurtful in gardens or orchards ; the spines 

 so disposed that no fruit will stick upon them ; appears ser- 

 viceable in ridding the fields of insects and worms ; M. Buf- 

 fon accuses it of tricks, of which, from its form and habits, 

 one would not be led to suspect it ; he kept males and fe- 

 males together, but they never coupled ; time of their 

 coupling ; sleep during winter, but do not lay up provisions 

 for that season ; at no time eat much, and remain long with- 

 out food ; blood cold, and their flesh not good for food ; 

 their skins converted to no use except to muzzle calves 

 from sucking, iii. 204. Destroyed and devoured by the 

 fox ; in what manner, 49. 



Hedge-hog of the sea, a cartilaginous fish of the sea-orb kind, 

 v. 109. 



Hedge-sparrow, a slender-billed bird, iv. 255. 



Height, Maximin, the emperor, above nine feet in stature, i. 

 442. 



Heliogabalus, noted for having the brains of six hundred os- 

 triches dressed in one dish, iv. 48. 



Hellebore, the black sort, its pernicious qualities, i. 279. 



Hemisphere, half illuminated by northern lights, i. 320. 



