HAM: 
among the brine, when they are fuppofed ready to hang up 
to dry, which is one n done on the fides of la 
sy it being it with fom 
{moked by means ne a expofure to the {moke of. peat, coal, 
or fome bk fort of Re -l, while others cautioufly avoid 
having them {moked at all. 
re they are not difpofed of before, they are ufually 
kept 1 in hele fituations until the warm weather begins to fet 
in, aot they are packed up in cafks with ftraw, or the feeds 
meal, and fent to the market to be fold. 
The Survey of the County of Wellmoreland ftates the 
lofs in the weight of hams by drying to he fo great as 20 
per cent, but we can hardly fuppofe . to be quite fo AM 
though it muit evidently be very confiderable, and fhou 
not by any means be overlooked by he farmer or falter a 
cures any great nuinber of pigs. ‘The former fhould indeed 
pt i wegnt it before he enters upon the practice i in any 
extenfive manner 
who havin ng at nea expo ed ie ase ys of his father, 
secures that not only Ham and Canaan, but all thee 24 
_ terity, became flaves, and the colour of their {kin was 
denly rendered black ; and accordingly they maintain, that 
all the blacks have: “defcended from Ham and Canaan. 
tenn ge Ham e the introducer of wicked. 
nefs aft er the d they charge him with a v 0 
enorm iy sel ats The {- pofe that be and his 
potter nt of mica 
in the bu 
penatere i es tar ace | 
sald lone ncence ie 2 s that this is a miftake oc 
by fimilitu phe grion aphas phs: ge: Ammon wa 
the fun, to which divine honours have been past all times 
‘The church con- 
and che fouth wall of the — 
. This - hits 
n a as ty relia of he Ne- 
HAM 
fair, the charter for which was procured in 1253. his 
parifh was an abbey called Stratford Langthorne, founded in 
the year 1135, for monks of the Ciltercian order. 
ous to the 
water-works, which were eftablithed in the year 1745, and 
are worked by a feam engine, Lyfons’s Environs of Lon- 
don, vol. iv. p. 2 
» KC. 
Ham, a town = enced in the department of the 
and chief place of a canton, in the diftri€& of Peronne, lew 
ated on the Somme. lace contains 1544, and the can- 
ton 9382 inhabitants, on a territory 0 of 1 132% kilometres, i in 
21 pe lat. 50° 11’. E.lon 
Biuff, a-cape at the W. extremity of the iPeadeek 
sats Co the Weft Indies. N. lat.17° 51’. Wie 
OHAMaDAs: a town of ges in the province of Yes 
men; 24 miles S.E. of Cham 
HAMAD AN, See reels 
HAMAD RYADES, formed of 2 pat y together, ut da 
dryad, of dpu:, oak, in Antiquity, certain fabulous 
vered among pes ancient heathens, and believed to 
over woods and foreits, and to be enclofed under the “bark 
° 
Hamadryades, Soot were fuppofed to ~ and 
Sie with the trees to” ‘hich they were attached ; as 18 
ferved by Servius on Virgil, Eclog. x. ver. 62, after Melis 
machus, the fcholiatt of Apollonius, &c. who men sameter 
traditions relating to this fubject. 
~The poets, however, frequently confound me Hanae 
ag with the Naiads, Napez, and rural 
Fetus eoeeny Corin ing it 
, pee neat 3 ees Pusiedicus Athenzus, lib. iii. calls 
the vine, tia, bid other ey trees, hamadryades, ades, from 
ue name their mother the oak. 
common idea > the ancients, of nt abe or in 
: their wor- 
sda dietiley Lib. tii. 
HAMADRYAS, in Siar: fo ced 1 Cope 
from dus, ing, and dpue:, a grove ; becaufe its nha 
bits woods or y laces. "The word, though + 
aring to be compounded of another gen 
; & ie oer mae really fo, and therefore not excephi©’ 
le. Jufl. 2 Lamarck. a ae 67-— te 
Z | Pal i aie, Lae 
any 1 e 
ments numerous, facies 
than: the -calpis 8 
anthers ee eee ‘liptical, obtufey, ticked of be ° mae 
“ cells. 
Beal ed Come sa to fheteles. 
ane colleéted into an wate bes iy 
