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sand has a ferry acrofs the Swale, a 
erfham 
contains a 
little N. of F 
as 5 8 
length forty- 
. ‘The mountains of 
the Hartz are otherwife called the Bofchea or Blocktberg’; the 
Great Blockfberg, which, 
not feem to affe 
is peculiarly ufeful, as ‘ 
and forges. The minerals found here are yellow ochre, 
vitriol, fieptie, , and lapis calaminaris ; 
with cobalt, lead, borax, iron, coppers filver, and fome 
the tenth century by a hunter, 
his feet and difclofed 
: 
its mines, were formerly the joint property of the electorate 
of Hanover and of the duke of Brun wic ; but the fhare of 
¢ latter has Been more recently exchanged with Hanover 
for another diftria. The clear annual product of the mines is 
computed at 453,000 dollars, the dollar being eftimated at 
_ HARTZEIN, Josepn, in Biography, who flourifhed in 
the eighteenth century, was defcen from a patrician fa- 
maily. at Cologne, hay a in that city about the year 1694. 
te was firft eels rt. Cs + nit ructor in the belles- 
had been beaun by father Schannat. Hartacin 
been begun by father Schannat aay 
preparing fth volume for publ vhen | 
labours were put an end to by an see fit, in the year 
the an- ¢ 
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1763. He was author of many other learned, works; par? 
ticularly “ Summa Hiftorie omnis ab Exordio Rerum ad 
Annum a Chrifto Nato :” “ Bibliotheca Scriprorum Colo-+ 
nienfium ;” “ Differtationes X Hiftorico-critice in Sacram 
Scripturam.”” i 
HARTZGERODE, in Geography, a town of Anhalt- 
'. Bernberg, near the Hartz mountains ; the houfes and 
are confiruéted of amotley kind of marble. It has a mines 
office and caftle ; 24 miles §.W. of Bernburg. N. lat. 51° 
40! E-long. r1° 20%, 
~ HARVA, atown of Sweden, in Weft Gothland; 15 
miles E. of Gotheborg. 4 
ARVARD, atownhhip in the eaftern part of Worcefter 
; 23 miles. N.E. of Worcefter; i 
732, by this name, in honour of the founder 
of Harvard univerfity, in Cambridge, (which fee,) and 
containing 1400 inhabitants. 
ARVeEST, in Agriculture, a name which is commonly 
applied to the feafon in which grain, hay, and other crops 
e are cut down, carried and fecured in the barns or ftack+ 
yards. 
The particular period at which the harveft for corn and 
hay takes place, is fooner or later according to the nature 
and ftate of the climate, the qualities of the foil, and the 
peculiar circumftances of the crops in regard to fituation and - 
kind. In the more northern diftri&ts, the harveft for both 
ay and corn is, however, in general, later by a month or 
fix weeks than in thofe of the fouth. The hay-harveft is 
very rarely completed before ‘that of the grain is com- 
menced, though in fome it is pretty nearly the cafe. 
Harvest Beef, aterm ufed to fignify the meat confumed 
by harveft-men, whatever the nature of it may be. 
"Harvest, Corn, a term fignifying the time at which 
grain becomes ready for the fickle, and fit to be cut down 
and preferved in fome way or other. It has been obferved 
that the difference in the periods at which the corn-harvett 
ufually commences in the different diftri€ts of the kingdom, 
let 
It may likewife be noticed that the periods are fcarcely 
ore various at which the harveft begins in different parts of 
in the modes are, in which the feveral differ- 
ent operations of that bufy feafon are executed. ome 
cafesit is the cuftom to reap or cut the corn witha fickle, and 
bind it up into fheaves ze; in others 
cutting of the grain is executed by the fcythe in fome parti- 
cular meth ‘other, and often left without being bound 
up, though, in fome cafes, it is bound into a fort of 
And in fome inftances a toothed fickle is employ, 
ed, while in others a fickle with a cutting-edge is made 
of for the p . The grain, when reaped or n 
Tnany cafes fet up into fome fort of hattock, and 
covered with fheaves of the fame; but in others 
by any means the cafe. In fome inftances, alfo, the grain is 
3A2 . cut 
