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the barb, and more hardy than the Persian ; one instance 

 of their great rapidity in the admirable Childers, frequent- 

 ly known to move above eighty-two feet and a half in a 

 second, 197. Roger de Belegme, the first recorded to 

 have attempted mending our native breed, 199. Number 

 of horses in London, in the time of King Stephen, said to 

 have amounted to twenty thousand ; in the times of queen 

 Elizabeth, the kingdom could not supply two thousand 

 horses to form the cavalry ; Powisland, in Wales, for many 

 ages famous for a swift and generous race of horses, and 

 why, 199. The horse and the ass differ not so much in 

 form, as the cow and the bison, yet the former are distinct 

 animals, and the latter animals of the same kind, 234s Eat 

 two hundred and sixty-two plants, and reject two hundred 

 and twelve, 369. Are killed by wild asses, 207. Destroy- 

 ed by the American bat, called vampyre, in South Ame- 

 rica, iii. 240. 



Horse (Sea), described, v, 108. 



Hospitals erected in India for the maintenance of all kinds of 

 vermin, ii. 84-. For monkeys, iii. 316. 



Hottentots outstrip lions in the chase, as travellers report, i. 

 439. Make much and very extraordinary use of the bison, 

 ii. 239. 



Hound, harrier, and beagle, all of the same kind ; grey-matin 

 hound, transported to the North, becomes a great Danish 

 dog ; and this, sent into the South, becomes a grey-hound of 

 different sizes ; and the same transported into Ireland, the 

 Ukraine, Tartary, Epirus, and Albania, becomes the great 

 wolf-dog, known by the name of the Irish "wolf-dog; the blood- 

 hound, a dog of the generous kind ; and likewise the gaze- 

 hound, and the grey-hound ; the blood-hound a dog of great 

 use, and in high esteem among our ancestors ; its employ ; 

 the gaze-hound hunted, like our grey-hound, by the eye, 

 not by the scent, iii. 13. 



Grey-hound fox, the largest, tallest, and boldest of the kind, 

 iii. 53. 



Humber, a new island formed at the mouth of this river ; it is 

 about nine miles in circumference, and worth to the pro- 

 prietor about eight hundred pounds a-year, i. 114. 



Humming-bird is the smallest of birds, and seems nearly 

 allied to the insect, iv. 33. Belongs to the sparrow kind, 

 255. The smallest of them about the size of a hazel-nut ; 

 its description ; the larger humming-bird is near half as big 

 as the common wren ; its description ; are seen fluttering 

 about the flowers, without ever alighting upon them ; their 

 wings in such rapid motion, it is impossible to discern their 

 colours, except by their glittering ; but only extracting their 

 honey as with a kiss ; their nests and the number of eggs ; 

 their time of incubation ; instance of their docility ; coun- 



