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Heat, Bocrhaave considered it 30 prejudicial to health, that he !j bred familiarly in our marshes ; not now, and why, 457 ; anatomi- 

 never went near a fire, 05 ; of the blood in man and other animals ]j cal distinction in which herons differ from other birds ; of this tribe 



Brisson has enumerated forty -seven sorts ; excessively dertructive 

 and voracious ; ever have lean and carrion bodies ; description of 



about thirty degrees above congelation ; in animals which sleep the 

 winter, not above ten, 357. 



Hec/a, the bellowings of that volcano, believed by the inhabitants 

 of Iceland to be the cries of the damned, 26. 



Hedge-hog, with an appearance the most formidable, the most 

 harmless of animals ; destitute of either cunning or switlness; has 

 but one expedient for safety, and from this alone it finds protec- 

 tion ; the cat, the weasel, the ferret, and the martin, decline com- 

 bat with it ; even the dog attacks it ineffectually ; its description ; 

 usual appearance on 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 ; arc not hurtful in gar 

 dens or orchards ; the spines so disposed, that no fruit will stick upon 

 them : appears serviceable in ridding the fields of insects and worms ; 

 Mr. Buffon accuses it of tricks, of which, from its form and habits, 

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

 gether, but they never coupled ; time of their coupling ; sleep dur- 

 ing winter, bat do not lay up provisions for that fjason ; at no time 

 eat much, and remain long without food ; blood cold, and their flesh 

 not good for food ; their skins converted to no use, except to muz- 

 zle calves from sucking, 373, 374 ; destroyed and devoured by the 

 fox : in what manner, 323. 



Hedge-hog of the sea, a cartilaginous fish of the sea-orb kind, 644. 



Hedge-spa rrow, a slender billed bird, 537. 



Iliight, Maximin, the Emperor, above nine feet in stature, 151. 



Hcliogulinltis. noted for having the brains of six hundred ostriches 

 dressed in one dish, 405. 



Hellebore, a quantity of the black sort pounded carelessly purged 

 several persons who were present, and the operator strongly, 96. 



Htlwo's (-S7.) fire, or the mariner's light, 111. 



lltln>ont, his experiment to show all things made of water, 49. 



Hemisphere, half illuminated by northern lights, 110. 



Htmiork, eat by the horse without injury, 214. 



Hrifvaf. name hunters give the roebuck the third year, 268. 



Hen, in the Museum at Brussels, a creature covered with feathers 

 and hair, said to be bred between a rabbit and a hen, 349. 



Hen of the common sort, moderately fed, lays above an hundred 

 esirs from spring to autumn, 450 ; after three years become effete 

 aim barren; clutches one brood of chickens in a season ; instances 

 of two, very rare ; number of eggs of a domestic hen in the year 

 above two hundred, being well fed, supplied with water, and at 

 liberty ; trodden by the cock or not, she continues to lay ; eggs of 

 this kind never by hatching produce living animals; her nest made 

 without care; chicking season artificially protracted, and entirely 

 removed, in wliat manner; left to herself, would seldom lay above 

 twenty eggs without attempt ing to hatch them; as she lays, her 

 eggs being removed, she continues to increase the number ; in the 

 wild state, seldom lays above fifteen eggs ; particularities of incu- 

 bation ; affection and pride after producing chickens ; every in- 

 vading animal she boldly attacks, the horse, the hog, or the mastiff; 

 inarching before her little troop, by a variety of notes calls her 

 train to their food, or warns thorn of danger ; instance of the brood 

 running for security into a hedge, while the hen stood boldly forth, 

 and faced a fox that came for plunder ; twelve chickens are the 

 greatest number that a hen can rear and clutch at a time; artificial 

 method of hatching chickens in stoves practised at Grand Cairo, or 

 in a laboratory with gratuated heat, effected with woollen hens, by 

 Mr. Reaumur ; by these contrivances, from a hen naturally produc- 

 ing twelve chickens in the year, are obtained artificially above two 

 hundred. 495, 406; common hen supplies the place of the hen-phea- 

 sant, when refusing to hatch her eggs, and performs the task with 

 perseverance and success, but the young ones very difficult to be 

 reared, 502. 



Hen (Guinea) or Barbary hen, described, 503. 

 Hen (water) described, residence and food ; nest and habits, 

 572, 573. 



Henry IV. King of Denmark, desirous of trying the skill of a 

 musican, who boasted he could excite men to madness, submitted 

 to the operation, became mad. and killed four of his attendants, 106. 

 Hereuianeum overwhelmed in that eruption of Vesuvius in which 

 Pliny the naturalist was suffocated ; its ruins lately discovered at 

 sixty feet below the surface, and forty below the bottom of the 

 sea, 27. 



Hermaphrodites, such are all animals of the snail kind, 685 ; the 

 bivalve tribe are so too ; they require no assistance from each other 

 towards impregnation, 6S7. 



Hermetical-sraling, a glass vessel, the meaning of it, 40. 

 Heron, a ruminating bird, 232 ; the great heron, in former times, 



I the common heron ; indolent and cowardly, and flies at the ap- 

 proach of the sparrow-hawk ; commits the greatest devastations in 

 fresh waters ; destroys more in a week thiui the otter in three 

 months ; a fish over so large he will strike at. and wound, though 

 unable to carry it away ; one heron, says Willoughby, will destroy 

 fifteen thousand carp in half a year ; usual attitude, waiting for 

 | prey ; food in cold and stormy seasons; manner of fishing ; vVil- 

 i loughby's receipt for taking thum ; their nests; never in flocks 

 when they iish, but making nests, they love each other's society ; 

 ilcsh of the young esteemed in France ; formerly much esteemed 

 i in England ; at present nothing domestic but a cat will (ouch it ; 

 method used to obtain them ; the young once excluded, the old in- 

 cessantly provide them with an amazing quantity offish ; instance 

 of it; by Mr. Kcvsli r's account, this bin! may exceed sixty years ; 

 recent instance of one taken in Holland, with a silver plate to one 

 leg, and an inscription, that it had been struck by the elector of 

 Cologne's hawks thirty-five years before; they contract a consump- 

 tive disposition, 559 to 501. 



Ilti'oit-/n!w/;in(?, a favourite diversion among our ancestors ; had 

 laws enactetl for the preservation of the species ; he who destroyed 

 their eg<r,s was liable to a penalty of twenty shillings for each 

 offence, 559. 



Her ram confirms the existence of giants, If'l. 

 Herring, its description, 051) ; of migrating fish, this and the 

 pilchard take the most adventurous voyages; places where the 

 herrings are in the greatest abundance ; numerous enemies met in 

 their migrations ; in Chesapeak bay, the shoals so great as to cover 

 the shores, and become a nuisance ; that body upon our coast be- 

 gins to appear off the Shetland isles in April ; forerunners, the 

 grand shoal descending in June, and announced by the gannet, gull, 

 &c. ; the main body divided into distinct columns of five or six miles 

 in length, and three or four broad ; in bright weather reflect a vari- 

 ety of splendid colours ; fishermen take two thousand barrels at a 

 single draught; places of Europe where herrings are punctual in 

 their visitations ; doubts in every part of their migration ; first 

 great bank for herrings was along the Norway shore ; before 1584, 

 the number of ships irom various parts of Europe resorting thither, 

 exceeded some thousands ; quantity of herrings then assembled 

 there was such, that a spear stuck in the water, as Olaus Magnus 

 asserts, would stand on end ; soon after that period, they deserted 

 the Norway shores, and took up along the German coasts ; no 

 cause assigned for this seemingly capricious desertion ; their 

 greatest colonies now in the British channel, and upon the Irish 

 shores ; a herring suffered to multiply unmolested, and undimi 

 nished for twenty years, would show a progeny greater in bulk than 

 ten such globes as that we live upon, 653. to 65b. 



Hertfordshire, a dreadful storm which happened in it, in 1697, 

 described, 109. 



He nitrons, with Pappus, the most convenient figures in build- 

 ing; cells of bees are perfect hexagons, S02. 



Hide of the elk, often known to turn a musket ball, 271. 

 Heira island, in the Mediterranean, risen and formed by subter- 

 raneous explosions, 37. 



Heiro. See Arekimtdet, 55. 



Hinil, or female of the stag, has no horns; time of gestation, and 

 usual season of bringing forth ; hides her young in obscure thickets ; 

 obliged to use all arts to conceal them from the stag, the most dan- 

 gerous of her pursuers : how she defends her young, 260, 261 ; the 

 female stag, still so called the third year, 202 ; manner of knowing 

 the track of a hind, 262 ; inhabitants of Canada have no other milk 

 but that of the hind ; and no other cheese but that made of it, 265 ; 

 the hunter's name for the roe-buck, the first year, 268. 



Hippocampus, the sea-horse, its description, 644. 



Hippocrates, his opinion about the formation of the incipient 

 animal, 123. 



Hippopotamus not afraid singly to oppose the lion, 295; its 

 dimensions ; places where it resides ; its lood ; swims with much 

 force, and remains at the bottom for thirty or forty minutes ; it 

 commits dreadful havock among the plantations ; method the Afri- 

 cans use to frighten it back to its element ; inoffensive in arts and 

 disposition ; never attacks mariners in their boats, unless inadver- 

 tently struck against, or otherwise disturbed, then it would send 

 them at once to the bottom ; instances of its great strength ; never 

 goes beyond the mouth of fresh-water rivers; attacked on shore, 

 and incapable of vengeance upon a flying enemy, returns to the 

 river, and plunges in head foremost ; the princes of Africa amuse 

 themselves with combats on their lakes, between this ftiid othet 

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