HAM 
es. “ ae of 
eee the For further particulars the readéris re- in’ K 
fet Lond di 
on,”” vol. iv. 
ory bp 
d (Method of Fof. 
s to confider the en as really produced 
of fifhes, but thofe who have more attentively 
py oe valt accumulation of thefe, in the Bath free- 
ftone range, in all its courfe from’ Portland Ifland to 
Ketton, in Rutland, and thence into Yorkhhire, reject this 
opinion, and confider thefe globules as a peculiar fpecies of 
-HAMMOC, or Hamac, a kind of hanging bed, fufpend- 
Py between two trees, pofts, hooks, or ike ; 3; much 
d “throughout the Weit Indies, as ite on | board o. 
Todas hang their hammocs to trees, and us fecure 
themielves from aid beafts and infects, which render. lying 
on the ground there very dangerous, 
a people of the Caribbee iflands are npedediliy fuper- 
Seis x vit - regard = ee and do not make them 
ad pi low, Bot c. z 
nmoc ufed on board of fhips is made of a piece 
ag ae long and three feet wide, hered or 
-of wars but this fpace mutt in 
ea ey the number of the crew, lige In 
; » the hammocs and firml. 
: e net nettings on the quarter ck, T 
SEE sxpoied > the view or fre of the 
corded ae ood he Det the ane of his days. In 5 & 
es M 
tion to ingenious young men aftorded him, and the fati 
tion which he received from the converfation of the } eaaned. - 
In 1644 he publithed his “ Praé@tical Cat techifm,” which, 
though oppofed by the tr ta pafled through many 
editions during the bites fter this Dr. Hamm 
was prefented by the et to a canonry of Chiriit church, 
and elected public orator to the univerfity of Oxford; he — 
as alfo appointed one of his majeity’s chaplains in ordin 
Without following the do€tor in the minutiz of his hiltory, 
we may obferve that he attended the me during his feve 
eerie till Chriftmas 1647, when the monarch was 
deprived of his flender houthold. 
without employment, pathos 
ie ofen dubs dean. of C 
e, but wes, wit 
prifoner in that city 5 5 Weeks, in-th 
;mind was alive to the purfuits of literature, and he be- 
to prepare for the prefs his learned 
Teftam 
ent.’ 
; oo on the New _, Brcsioull to the trial 
pee me hig in his: fa- 
your, AG: tT OF 
king. t he wor was Ben publifhed | under the 
title of « To the R t Honourable the Lord 5 fo ae and 
rcetter- 
under whofe hof- 
_Annotations on the N 
variation of our Ex from the original, and made an en- 
tire non of stile ele alg ule + he caft his. 
pi sh 
