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Smeaton, and other writers on the navigation and drainage 
‘of thefe diftnas. 
‘Harp-coals, an. ei ings are fuch as can be dug and raifed 
in large lumps, and are of a free or open-burning quality; 
they are Grnathined called {pire-coal, and fione-coal, and 
feem the lithanthra: ome authors. 
ence fliewn by the dealers and confumers of coal in the m 
and counties to this kind, in rejection of the foft or tener 
oF je (which is the character of by far the greater num 
-feams,) unlefs of the very beft crozling or athing 
qiality; occafions an inconceivable wafte to be made in the 
pits of all but hard coals. The Report to the Board of 
Agriculture on Derbythire, very: properly calls the atten- 
aa of that Rae and the legiflature, to this important 
ubjeét. , 
Lxnp-corn fignifies wheat in Suffex and -feme other 
counties. 
Harp aces in the Manege, is one that is infenfible of 
whip or fpur. 
Fisdinieon, ie Speamcn name of the weed corn crow- 
fous, 3 in fome plac 
ARD-lead, in “Mining, is applied: to the faidine-tided 
piéces, or half pigs, which are made at. the flag-hearths, or 
mills, attached “to the aes or reverberatory furnaces 
(where foft lead is made,) in ‘fhire, from. the drawn 
flag-of the cupolas. This oe though unfit for rolling, n 
and fome other one is much efteemed by the red-lead 
makers, and the cers. 
‘ARD-a-lee, in Sea Lan 
helm, when it is pufhed clofe to the lee-fide of the fhip, 
either to tack or keep her head to the wind, when edge; 
by, or or trying. It expreiies alfo the order to put the helm 
inthis pofition. 
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weath ndward fide of the fhip, and it fignifies this 
potion “3 the he 
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peeve ofS Seville cs 10 miles S. W. o quera 
HARDANGER, Gulf of, a “bay of ihe ‘North fea, on 
the coaft of Norway. N. lat. 59° 50’. E. long. 6”. 
HARDANGER, mountains of N ageieh in thé province of 
Pepa & 60 miles E. of Berge 
BERG, a town of ‘onipais. in the duchy of 
ae 52 fa S. of Vienna. N. lat. 47° 18’, E. long. 
Ste DEI: Cre, a river of America, in Kentucky, 
which runs into the Ohio. N. lat. 37° 40’. E. long, 
$6 ee 
HARDENBURG, a town of the aun of Berg ; 13 
eo ba 4 = of Duffeldorf. ae a town of Holland, in 
oa a of Beatie: on t he Vecht ; ts 10 miles se W. 
of Covo 27's 
There my divers ways of effeGing it: as by the hammer, 
when hot, in eal. water 5 eale-hanie 
< Tanbeniv and Stee 
| ES oak Te 
beat it 
f this powder into 
He toge- 
ther; cover the’ iron, “all over iis 
e 
anguage, denotes the fituation of the 
paagiarse ar is the order to put the belih clofe to the - 
t 
ALES, "ih Geography, a town Bid Spain, in the 
ning, ning, &c.: 
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and wrap it, up in loam, or plate-iron, fo as the mixture 
touch every part of the work; then put it in the fire, and 
blow the coals to it, till the whole lump have a blood-red 
heat, but no higher; laftly, take it out, and quench it. 
See S under Avhich article other. orcs for this 
_ purpofe are ‘acne: 
ARDENING of the flrata, in Geology; is a point on which 
theorifts have been much divided: Dr. Hutton, and his 
comme pel r. Playfai 
heat was neceflary ftrata, 
after their depofit i in a foft or pulverulent form, in the depths 
of the ocean. 
r. Kirwan fuppofes this hardening to have been in part 
cliestical and fo have followed immediately their depofition, 
air, asm be alleged with h refpeet to the fuperticial trata of 
mowtaing and to dry land ‘in general, could have had 
0 part in producing the induration or hardening of ‘thefe 
fub-marine. flrata, an found fo 
nking it i 
the exhaling of this falt, and a rotting of wood, have 
very great connect ion with one another, fince the more Rea 
any piece of timber is, the more “fale j it proper e y a 
and the wood which is rotten is found o contaili BO 
falt at all. T'achen. Hippoc.. Chy 
HARDEPSEN, in Geo ia fie ‘a town 
dia, in a. rincipality of Calenberg, having 4 ce 
able info ute ee : g NW. of 
tinge 
noe, Fou Tha in Biography, an em inent 
B n the h ot Seen, 
ear 
f leather ; 10 miles 
clan, was at 
the 17¢ 
by the emperor Leopold in 164 _ His life was * oe a 
Sines iahge to ST 
