HAR 
This method of producing the half-notes on the harp by 
female ih ae was in- 
pedals, as rendered it a 
vented at Bruffels about the ae 1757, b imon, who 
ftill refided in that city in 17 It is an bee and ufe- 
fal contrivance, in more sakes than one; for by reducing ! 
s, the tone of t remain is im- 
the number of ttrin 
known that the oo an inftrument is 
ved ; as it is we 
, the more freely it vibrates. 
‘We fhall not attempt to. inftruét our readers how to apply 
thefe pedals to the harp, or to explain their operation ; the 
mechanifm is too complicated to be taught b ot Ae verbal inftruc- 
be the deare 
tion. To make a watch by a receipt wo ft 
way. of parcnating it 
HARP PEGEMENT, Fr. «See ARPEGGIO. 
HARPEGGIATO, Ital. See Arpreaio. 
‘HARPERS, Bartrisn. Thefe we are certain 
famous long before the conqueft, and the bounty of our “fir 
Norman see M to his joculator or bard is recorded in 
Doomfday-boo SS aparece got Berdic, 
gis, habet ii. vis « ibi v. car. nil redd. i 
Ord. — ti. 304.) "Not fhould that of Heary III. be 
fo: n, who, in the thirty-fixth year’ of his reign, not 
Richard, his 
P- 12, 18. and elfewher 
RPER’S — in ‘Gugra aphy, a poft-town of America, 
in Berkeley county, Virginia; 65 miles from Wafhington. 
Peet is an on Al and a manufaétory of mufkets and 
onet: 
yonets, 
ee tel, a poft-town of America, in Dela- 
county, New York ; 32 miles S. E. of Cooper’s town; 
pores: -1OF3 itants. 
RPIES, APMTIAI, Harpyie, in Antiquity, a rapa- 
of monfters, of the bird kind, ‘mentioned 
are scant ANE with wings, ears like bears, bodies 
ike women, and feet and mre hooked 
ae 
The Reser piesa on t 
Some make 
he H a fort of genii or 
és arpies as g 
them “th daikeanis of ieee and 
affirming that 
wings, and went with the rapidity of the wind. 
hg yTés, begat of them Balius and Xanthius, pre 
odarge. 
wee. 267, ned reckons two, Acllo and _ ens and makes 
— of Thaumas and Eleétra, 
e ae 
feas, and gle go them 
ie ancien the Harpies, agrees to no 
birds fo well as found in the territo 
A Thefe animals_kill not only 
; pe of this con 
HAR 
men by their peckings. But the ancients, as thie 
Voffius obferves, knew nothing of thete birds. 
Harpies, therefore, he thinks Soot 
Euftathius. 
conjectures that the 
watt 
. 248. 
Harpies were sheets ; wich: ohne they had laid 
thyma and.Paphlagonia, were driven by a north wind int 
a 
Some. have ee that dey a the dau 
neus, who t Ar ns re hoptably, and d 
them the wer fi Colchis, a bee t they ruined their marerh 
by their debauche é Banier sec 
ai be 
antiquity defigned to figure ‘4 thefe pretended pt ace 
who made frequent defcents upon the 
and that he equipped a fhip, and having put them to oes 
purfued them to the Strophades ifles, where they pe 
r. Bryant —— that the Harpies were a co. 
» on account of their repeat 
aoe 
their en was ca J 
whence the Grecians formed ‘Aprusai; an 0 
farther, that Harpyia, ‘Ar 
n, who manages and — the harping-iron in the whales: 
fithing. e Whale Fisnery. 
HARPING-Inon, Sialeaies a a fort of dat 
or {pear, faltened to a line, cpr they catch whales 
“ia other large fith, as ftur 
¢ harping-iron is a large’ jorelin of bey th iron, gene- 
rally about twenty ounces in weight, a 
long, with a fharp, cutting, triangular oii sahil 
that of an arrow. nd is e ! 
pineer’s name, near a ring to which the 
which they let aes as foon as the fith is rae to give 
him room to dive, &c. See Whale Fisuery. 
an 3. 
rt of gun was ents d for fhooting the rte into 
sodien of whales at a greater ma tei than could 
hrown by hand, and this was for two or three feafons 
with fome fuccefs: but farther experience has proved the 
ntrivance. It was afterwards ; 
ubftitute the ancient balifta in the room of the gun ; but 
the fehemey we ie ness ona in mere fpeculation.. 
Lag 
Haatoes : » Cat. ee Car Harpin: 
HARPLE, or RPLE, in Gre phy, a townthip of 
lay sien 1 inhabitants. 
d about two mee we 
