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moft fimple, the moft natural, and the moft effeaual method 

 of curing it, would be to cover the good eye for feme tiwe ; 

 for the diftorted eye would thus be obliged to aft and turn 

 itfelfdJreftly towards objefts, and, by degrees, this would 

 become natural to it. 



The reafon why thofe perfons who fquint generally turn 

 the weak eye towards the nofe, he fays, is, that in that 

 fituation, the direftion of its axis is as diftant as poffible 

 from that of the good eye : and beCdes, in this place, the 

 nofe conceals many objefts from its view, fo that this fitua- 

 tion is the lead difadvantageous to it of any other. 



In fome cafes, M. Biiffon obfcrves, that the eyes have 

 what is commonly called a cajl only, in confequence of the 

 optic angle being too great or too fmall, when they are of 

 equal goodnefs. This, he fays, is generally the refult of 

 habit, acquired very early, in confequence of the mifmanage- 

 ment of children, and that it is often eafily cured. If the 

 eye that fquints be turned towards the temples, be fays, he 

 has generally found that there is no great inequality in the 

 goodnefs of the two ; and that, in this cafe, the caufc being 

 only a vicious habit, the cure has been completed by cover- 

 ing the good eye for a fortnight only. In order to judge 

 with any certainty of the inequality of goodnefs in the two 

 eyes, and the poffibility of the cure of fquinting, it is ne- 

 ceflary, he fays, to cover the good eye for fome time, in 

 order to exercife the bad eye, and give it an opportunity of 

 gaining ftrength, after which it will be more eafy to judge 

 whether the cure be poflible or not. Acad. Par. 1743, 

 p. 329. 342. Reid's Inq. into the Human Mind, p. 253 — 

 457. See Phyjiology of the Eye. 



SQUINZ ANO, in Geography, a town of Naples, in the 

 province of Otranto ; 6 miles N.W. of Lecce. 



SQUIRE, Samuel, in Biography, a learned Englilh 

 prelate, was born at Warminfter in 17 14. He was educated 

 at St. John's college, Cambridge, of which he became a 

 fellow. After various inftances of preferment, he obtained 

 the vicarage of Greenwich, and was appointed clerk of the 

 clofet to the prince of Wales, his prefent majeity. In 

 1760 he was promoted to the deanery of Briftol ; and in the 

 following year he was advanced to the fee of St. David's. 

 He died in 1766, leaving behind him feveral works of re- 

 putation, befides a number of fingle fermons. His prin- 

 cipal pieces are as follow. In his profeflion as a divine, he 

 wrote " The ancient Hiftory of the Hebrews vindicated ;" 

 " Indifference for Religion inexcufable ;" and " The Prin- 

 ciples of Religion made eafy to young Perfons." In claf- 

 fical literature, he pubhihed " Two Effays : (l) A De- 

 fence of the ancient Greek Chronology; (2) An Inquiry 

 into the Origin of the Greek Language ;" and an edition 

 of « Plutarch de Ifide et Ofiride," Gr. and Engl., with 

 commentaries and various readings. His works, as a po- 

 litical writer, are, " An Inquiry into the Nature of the 

 Enghfh Conttitution, or an hillorical ElTay on the Anglo- 

 Saxon Government both in Germany and England ;" 

 " An EfTay on the Balance of Civil Power in England ;" 

 and " Remarks upon Mr. Carte's Specimen of the General 

 Hiftory of England." He left in MS, a Saxon grammar, 

 compiled by himfelf. Dr. Squire was a fellow of the Royal 

 and Antiquarian Societies. Gen. Biog. 



SQUIRREL, ScivKvs, iovmeAai arnMyJhade, and «fx, 

 tail, becaufe the tail ferves this animal for an umbrella, is a 

 genus of animals defcribed under SciURUS. 



There is great diverfion in hunting the common Englifh 

 fquirrel, and its flelh is very dehcateand well tailed. The 

 only feafon for hunting it is in autumn, and the beginning 

 of winter, at which time the creature is fat ; and the leaves 

 being off the trees, it may be feen as it leaps from bough 



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to bough, which, when purfued, it does with furprifmg 

 agility. 



In the fummer they build their nefts, which the fportfmcB 

 call drays-, very artificially in the tops of trees, with fticks, 

 mofs, and fuch other things as the woods afford : to their 

 neft they have two holes, and they ftop up that on the fide 

 the wind blows, as Pliny has remarked ; they fill this 

 lodging, during the feafon, with nuts and other fruits, 

 which are to ferve them in the fevere weather, when the 

 trees afford nothing. They fleep in the inidft of this pro- 

 vifion a great part of the winter, and that fo foundly, that 

 they will not be waked by ever fo loud a noife made juft 

 under their drays ; though at other times they fly out im- 

 mediately on hearing any noife, even at a confiderable dif- 

 tance. 



In the fpring the female is feen purfued from tree to tree 

 by the males, feigning an efcape from their embraces. 



The tail of the fquirrel, which is a'' large as the body, 

 though compofed almoft entirely of hair, ferves the creature 

 iu fome fort inftead of wings ; for by means of it the body 

 is kept fufpended in the air, without any vifible finking, 

 while the creature throws itfelf from the boughs of one tree 

 to thofe of another of equal height. But the more general 

 leaps the fquirrel takes, are from the outermoft branches of 

 a high tree to another fomewhat lower at a diftance : it is 

 wonderful to fee how far it will be carried in thefe leaps ; 

 and if it miffesthe tree it aims at, and by that means falls from 

 the top of ever fo high a tree to the ground, the tail fup- 

 ports it fo well that it comes foftly down, and receives no 

 harm. The hunting of the fquirrel is molt agreeably per- 

 formed in woods of a young growth, the trees of which 

 may be (haken by the hands ; and it is neceffary to take out 

 fome means of diflodging them from the clefts of trees, in 

 which they will take refuge, and from which they will never 

 be removed by mere noife. 



Many people ufually go together on this expedition, and 

 fometimes they carry bows and arrows for the diflodging of 

 the prey from thefe places ; fometimes bludgeons, or fhort or 

 thick Itaves, loaded at one end with lead, to prevent their 

 lodging in the tree when they are thrown up. The fquirrel, 

 which in its fright has taken refuge in any part of a tree, 

 and is not to be diflodged either by hallooing or fhaking the 

 tree, will always quit the place as foon as an arrow or 

 bludgeon has been well aimed at it, and will give a farther 

 chace. 



The fquirrel is always fond of a large oak in time of dan- 

 ger, and runs to the nearell it can find, as foon as it fees 

 Itfelf purfued : in fome part of the upper boughs of this 

 tree it fits fecure from the men and dogs, at*d as it is too 

 troublefome to the fportlmen to climb every tree, the only 

 method is to fhoot arrows, and throw bludgeons at it ; it 

 is very feldom hurt by thefe, unlefs hit juft upon the head, 

 for its back-bone is fo ftrong, that it will bear nearly as 

 hard a blow as a dog, without danger of hurt. So long as 

 the ftrength and fpints of the creature laft, it always keeps 

 in the tops of the higheft trees ; but when it grows weary. 

 It comes down, and takes fhelter in the hedges. The fquirrel 

 then foon becomes a prey to the dogs, or is very often killed 

 upon the ground, in attempting to gain the hedge in places 

 where there is no continued chain of trees by which it can 

 come at it. 



It is obferved, that the gullet of this animal is very nar- 

 row, to prevent it from difgorging its food in defcending of 

 trees, or in its leaps downwards. 



SQUIRTING or Spurting Cucumber, in Gardening, 

 the common name of a wild fort of cucumber, which is fome- 

 times cultivated in gardens for the fake of curiofity, and for 



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