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re 
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Crowell in 1791. It difcharges — into the fea at 
=. h end of the largeft ifland, and at its mouth is nearly 
24 nautical miles wide. The land is = oe apparently fer- 
tile ; and the river abounds with falm The mouth of the 
oes ie iN. dat. 54° 7'. W. long. 1 31° 
Hancock's Harbour, called by the Indians « Clioquot,”’ 
is fituated about 20 leagues s E.S of Noot ka, in N. lat. 
43° 30’, W. long. 125° 26’. Its entrance is about five 
miles in length, and it has good anchorage. Several iflands 
‘and feveral fand-banks are difverfed about it: it has alfo 
anumber of fine coves. ‘The land round the harbour is ge- 
nerally rocky and mountainous, covered, however, with 
pine, fir, {pruce, cedar, ‘hemlock, cyprefs, and other large 
trees, e climate is much milder than on the eaftern fide 
of the continent in the fame latitude; the froft, in winter, 
not preventing sagetenioa: An eafterly wind is condidered 
here as a prognoftic of a ftorm, and weft winds bring fair 
eather. The forefts abound with deer, raccoons, wolves, 
bears, {quirrels, martins, land otters, beaver, and wild cats. 
The fas a eer eric in this place are the common feal and 
fea-otter, The inhabitants are faid to be nema Peic his 
It confilts of a compages of nerves, 
bones ee into each other, which give it a great 
° igth, an the fame time an unuf xibi- 
fee to enable it to handle adjacent bodies, lay hold of a 
oot Pp ek in order either t w them toward us 0 
- and “ae over other” ae to the ufe of his 
Galen og the matter nikae :man, erat te to ce 
fies i oO 
cap. aa For an anatomical defcription of the se fee Ex. 
oes Be 
» their Seon. &e. 
hand was ufed as a fymbol of a 
fy of fidelity: and, 
2¢ ecrated to that goddefs by ice with 
a lag in Falconr onry, is ufed for the foot of the del 
‘0 have a clean, - Sep0ge flender, glutinous hand, w 
Hi, fome of the good qualities of a hawk, or site 
ee Branding, or Barainy in the, in Law. See 
Difa me of. See Maswees 
2 ding up of. See ARRAIGN. 
sw eeprom or particular 
EMPT, Coun of the Tord Steward of 
adie 
ers 
Fg araleneg : Ter the 
HAWN 
Spear-hand, or fword-hard, is ufed for a horfeman’s right 
Bridle-hand is the horfeman’s left hand. 
“A regular cavalier holds his bridle-hand two or three 
inches above the pommel of the faddle. 
A horfeman is faid to have no hand, when he only makes 
ufe of the bridle unfeafonably ; not knowing how to give 
the aids, or helps, of the hand with difcretio 
To keep a horfe upon the hand, fignifies to ee him in the 
ftay upon the hand, and to be always prepared to avoid 
any furprife from-him. When the horfe obeys and am 
{wers the effects of the hand, he is faid to rif. well upon 
n 
A horfeman ought to have a 22 bradyi be ts pee ought ity 
to feel the horfe upon him wl 
ever he attempts to flip from it ; s ws n as he has 
his eat he ought to lower the bridle, inftead of clea 
ing to it. 
at a ho fo, by a too great. ea pernefé to go forward, peels 
too much upon the hand, it ought to be fincheted at. certain 
times, and at other times to be kept hard, um order to dif- 
This 
calves 0 
the hand, i is Kotaigitbind of a horfe, which 
of the foftnefs of his neck, the weaknefs of his 
back, the a enefs of his siond: and the weight of his er 
quarters, o wearinefs, throws himfelf upon the brid. 
without oats any refiftance, or effort, to force the helen 
man’s 
To make a horfe right upon the hand, and free in the fay 
or i . he muft be taught to know the hand by degrees, 
by gentle a. the horfemap muft turn him, or 
ge ben Sant him, and manage with dexterity the 
re of his mouth, fo as to m 0 
clenched or fhut up. A good fized horfe is from fifteen to 
fixteen hands in height ; but there are many horfes that are 
mucl 
AND is alfo found, in poe other terms, or phrafes of 
art, belonging to the 
Hann, to flack, or yield ‘he is oe flacken the stitiee” 
Hanp, to hold up, or fuftain the, is to pull the bridle in. 
Hanp, to enw, a bole by the, is to turn or change hands 
upon : 
ot pti apply or fiay of she. See Apput. ’ 7m 
Hanp, beat upon the. See Bear and Curck. 
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