44 



I*do. Teitudo, scorpioides, 2t 



'('' scripts, ib. 



.orpe-.lina, 19 

 serratu, 2O 

 pengleri, 19 

 squamata, 21 

 eubnigra, 20 

 lubrufa, ib. 

 tabulate, 21 

 tricarinata, 20 

 verrucosa, ib* 

 virgulata, ib. 

 Toad tribe, 37 



accoucheur, 38 

 bengal, ib. 

 brown, ib. 

 blue-warted, 39 

 brazilun, 39 

 catamite, 38 

 cinereous, 37 

 common, ib* 

 courier, 38 

 * gibbous, ib. 



green, ib. 

 horned, 39 

 horrid, 38 

 humid, ib. 

 inflated, ill- 

 marine, ib. 

 musical, ib. 

 natterjack, 37 



HERPETOLOGY. 



Toad, oval, 38 



panama, 37 



pearly, 38 



roesellian, ib. 



rough, ib. 



semilunated, ib. 



shoulder-knot, ib. 



smooth, ib. 



(pine-footed, ib. 



spinous, ib. 



striped, ib. 



Surinam, ib. 



Surinam dwarf, ib. 



gwelled-throated, ib. 



white-spotted, ib. 



yellow-bellied, 37 

 Tortoise tribe, 19 



amboyna, 20 

 areolated, 21 

 banded, 21 

 beaked, 19 

 blockheaded, 20 

 blackish, ib. 

 bordered, 21 

 cafre, 21 

 Carolina, 20 

 Caspian, ib. 

 cirrhated, 19 

 close, 2O 

 concentric, ib. 

 coui, 21 



Tortoise, denticulated, ib. 

 dotted, 20 

 dwarl, 21 

 elegant, ib. 

 euphratian, 19 

 fierce, 19, 21 

 geometrical, 21 

 gopher, ib. 

 hel meted, 20 

 juvcncula, 21 

 indian, ib. 

 inlaid, ib. 

 land, 21, 22 

 manuscript, 20 

 martinclla, ib. 

 matamata, 19 

 mud, 20, 22 

 odorous, 20 

 painted, ib. 

 pennsylvanian, ib. 

 porphyry, ib. 

 reddish, ib. 

 reticulated, ib. 

 rough, ib. 

 scaly, 21 

 scorpion, 20 

 serpentine, 19 

 serrated, 2O 

 shagreen, 19 

 spenglerian, ib. 

 spotted, 21 



Tortoise, striped, 20 



three-ridged, ib. 

 two-.spined, 21 

 warty, 20 

 yellow, 19 

 yellowish, 21 

 Tortoises, fossil, 

 Tortoise shell, structure of, 14 

 Trionyi genus. Geofl'. 19 

 Tupinambis genus. 



albigularis, 25 



bengalensis, ib. 



cepedianus, ib. 



elegans, ib. 



exanthen.at.cu3, ib, 



griscuy, ib. 



indicus, ib. 



lacertmus, ib. 



maculatus, ib. 



monitor, ib* 



niloticus, ib. 



ornatus, ib. 



stellatus, ib. 



variegatus, ib. 

 Turtle tribe, 16 



coriaceous, 17, 19 



esculent, 17 



green, ib. 



hawksbill, 18 



loggerhead, ib. 



mediterranean, ib. 



Index. 



Herring, 

 Hertford. 



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HERRING. See ICHTHYOLOGY. 



HERRING FISHERY. See FISHERIES. 



HERTFORD TOWN, in the hundred of Hertford, in 

 Hertfordshire, is pleasantly situated 21 miles north from 

 London, on the river Lea, which is navigable for bar- 

 ges to the town. The streets are chiefly neat and clean, 

 and the houses well built. It contains two parish 

 churches j a handsome sessions house, in which the as- 

 sizes for the county are held ; a market house and town 

 hall, in which are kept the quarter sessions and county 

 courts ; and a county gaol and penitentiary house, built 

 on Mr Howard's plan. The most important public se- 

 minaries for education consist of the East India College, 

 for the education of youth destined to fill the various 

 offices in the civil departments in India ; and a large 

 school belonging to Christ's Hospital in London, where 

 about 500 of the younger children are kept prior to 

 their being sent to the metropolis. Hertford returns 

 two members to Parliament. The right of election is 

 vested in the inhabitants who do not receive alms ; and 

 in sueh freemen only as, at the time of their being 

 made free, were inhabitants of the borough. Their 

 number is about 700. The only article of consequence 

 manufactured here is malt, by which, and the large 

 quantities of corn and wool sent down the river to 

 London, the inhabitants are principally supported. 



In 673, a synod was held at Hertford, and King Al- 

 fred here built a castle, by means of which the Danes, 

 who had come up the Lea from the Thames, were 

 destroyed. On the site of the ancient castle the pre- 

 sent one, now the East India College, was erected in 

 the time of Charles I. The manor of Hertford belong- 

 ed to the Crown from 1345 till the sixth year of Charles 

 I., when it was granted to William Earl of Salisbury, 

 whose descendant, the present marquis, is now owner 

 of it. In the 25th year of the reign of Elizabeth, and 

 afterwards in the 34th and 35th of the same reign, the 

 Michaelmas term was adjourned from London to this 



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town, on account of the plague then raging in the me- Hertford, 

 tropolis. w-y..< 



At Haileybury, in the parish of Amwell, in the vi- 

 cinity of the town of Hertford, and about 19 miles 

 from London, is situated the East India College. This 

 site was chosen by the directors of the East India Corn- 

 pany, when they formed the determination of aban- 

 doning the grand and extensive plan of a college at 

 Calcutta, sketched out and partly begun by the Mar- 

 quis of Wellesley during his administration of India. 

 The object of both institutions is to give a suitable edu- 

 cation to those persons who are meant to occupy civil 

 employments under the company in India. 



The college near Hertford was instituted in April 

 1805, and the foundation stone of the building was 

 laid on the 12th of May 180fi. The beauty of the 

 building, the fineness of the situation, the salubrity of 

 the air, and the object of the institution, render it an 

 object of considerable interest. The college is capable 

 of accommodating above 100 students, and rather more 

 than thirty, on an average, are annually sent from it 

 to India. According to the plan of the institution, 

 young men are received when they have completed 

 their 15th year, and they continue at the college till 

 they are 1 8, or till the court of directors shall deem it 

 proper to send them to their respective destinations. 

 A nomination to the college, on the part of the court, 

 is equivalent to an immediate appointment. The stu- 

 dents are instructed by courses of lectures, nearly on 

 the plan pursued at the universities of Oxford and 

 Cambridge. The college council, under whose direc- 

 tion and authority the institution is more immediately 

 placed, consists of a principal and several professors. 

 Besides the general superintendance of the college, it 

 is the duty and office of the principal more especially 

 to watch over the moral and religious conduct of the 

 students, to instruct them in the principles of ethics 

 and natural theology, and in the evidences, doctrines., 



