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HAR 
‘animal is entirely vegetable ; and it is ‘particulatly fond of 
pinks, parfley, and birch. The hare never pairs; but in the 
rutting feafon, which begins in February, the male purfues 
tim Hares are very fubjeG to fleas; and _ wus tells us, 
eae ‘the: Delecarlians make a fort of cloth of te fur, 3 
filt, which preferves the wearer from their attacks. The fi 
of hares is a very confiderable article in the hat wile father, 
and many thoufands of < = are annually imported for 
that ufe from Ruffia and 
“The {portfmen ‘Shenae iin forts of this animal: the 
one lives in the mou antals s the fecond kind in open fields ; 
a third:kind in marfhy grounds ; and the fourth is a rambler, 
having no particular fixed {pot of refidence. It is eafy to 
fee that thefe are no difltinétions in the eye of the naturalift ; 
but they have their feveral properties, scteciatas to thefe dif- 
ferences of place, which are of confequence to the fportf- 
men. Thus the = arses hares are the {wifteft of all, and 
the marth hares the floweft; the field hares have a middle de- 
gree of {wi 3 between chefs ; and the rambling hares are 
the moft difficult of all others to hunt, for they are not only 2 
confiderably fwift, but they generally know all the coverts 
the 
and thickets, and hase art to make a thoufand doublings 
and efcapes that the others would not think of. See Hare- 
Hares and rabbits are very mifchievous to new-planted 
orchards, by peeling off the barks of the tender and young 
trees for their food. They do alfo the fame fort of milchief 
to nurferies ; for the prevention of which fome_bind ropes 
about the trees up to fuch a height as they are able to reach ; 
fome daub them with tar; but though this keeps off the 
hares, it is itfelf mifchievous to the a py this hurt- rics 
de 
ful property of it is in fome degree taken off by mixing an 
pitied of fat or te with it, and sapebel them = 
F is mixture is to be rubbed over the lower 
People who have the care of warrens, pretend to an odd 
way of making hares fat when they get them there. This 
is the fopping up their ea sty aids and rendering them 
o~ 7 — is f fhe is con- 
; - However tion 8 adie hare may be chacied now, our an- 
“sehtors thought it a crime to tafte it, = we learn from Cefar, 
€om, lib. v. in novia they agreed with the Jews. oe 
the Romans it was reckoned a great ed ras Thus Mar- 
— os Ae 
= bape « Inter quadrupedes gloria prima lepus.”” 
ied Hlairacts 3 ‘in the fecond patie: of his fourth beck, exe 
Be ie wing ©. of the’ fruitful hare 
« Fecundi leporis fapiens (epabion adiss 
gh the hare lives on vegetables and water only,. yet 
ie habitual exercife of this animal exalts its fal falta. oat 
renders it fomewhat alkalefcent ; and this tendency is much 
HAR 
increaled, if it is killed immediately after being heated by 
if 
rong exerci e. 
ARE, Java. See Cavia Aguti. 
Hare, Sea. See LERNIA 
Hare's Lettuce. See SoNcuus. . 
Hare’s Strong. See Peucepanu 
Hare, in Geography, an ifland in se North fea, near 
the coait of ree 20 miles in circumference. N. lat. 
62° 20’. K. long. 6’ 33'. 
Hare Bay, a bay on the - coat of Newfoundland. : 
N. lat 51° 20'.. W. long. 55° 4 
Hare dudians, Tadiane at es N. W. part of America, 
fituated on Mackenzie’s river. N. lat. 66° 50', and between — 
37° — Me “W. long. 
ip, (Labia leporina,) in Surgery, is a particular 
deformity of ‘the lip, which part has a prcternatural fiffure 
n it, the roof of the mouth edad being alfo fometimes im- 
he ect, 
‘The hare-lip is generally a defe& of se wage Phot 
and is therefore obferved in children of tender The 
deformity, indeed, is fpmetimes the confequence of a wound 
but this cafe is by no means frequent. The upper lip is that 
which is ufually affeGed, it being only in fome uncomme 
cafes that a fifflure is met with in the lower one. The edge 
of the congenital hare-lip is healthy, foft, red, covered with 
a delicate cuticle, and, in every*re{peét, fimilar to the furs 
face of the lips. It is only when the fiffure is the effet of — 
a wound or fore, that its edges are fometimes uneven, hard, 
and cailous. ‘The lip is mene divided only in dne places 
fometimes in two. When t wo fiffures are fomewhat hat dif- 
middle of the lip ; bat, on other occafions, it reaches to 
nofe, and even quite into one of the noftrils. In this lait 
cafe, the fiffure is not only very broad, but the. nottril is alfo 
ftretched to one fide, and, confequently, the nofe appears 
much wider on one fide than the other. Belides the cleft in 
the lip, a fiffure is likewife frequently obferved in the a 
jaw and palate bones, and is often fo large as to convert, a8 
it were, the infide of the mouth and ae one common 
cavit c is it mSy which, 
however, is generally fituated quite on one fide of the divi- 
= in 1 Mee eee In Abo inftances, a 
their ap e pa’ i space in "in yearbe ied 
fons, who labour oda this , cannot ind 
ters well, efpeci $ Ce formed by the lips, 
let . 
they likewife articulate words in an indiftiné way. I 
peakin flobber, and in bruce, fone of the ais 
victuals are apt to fall out of their mouths. ‘The tooth 
hind the fiffure is uncovered, and is able i 
confiderably forward, or to become carious. 5 
alfo, sa Tale acl files ec eee of the palate, are i 
of fucking, and frequently they are not even able t pe 
