HAT 
Englith, The flaughter was great, and the victory complete. 
Harold, his two brothers, and many of he Ir 
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other particulars relating to the conquelt and acceffion of 
i Coxaquest, vol. ix.; Excuanp, Hifory of; 
vol. xiii,; and Barrie-ABBey, vol iv. enry’s Hitt. of 
_ Great Britain, vol. v. and Miller’s Hiftorical View o 
E. by the county of Lenox, on the S. by the bay of Quinte, 
and comprehending all the iflands near it in the faid bay and 
river Trent. a 
Hasriva’s Bay, a bay on the N.E. coatt of the ifland of 
St. Matthew, in the Mergui Archipelago, difcovered by Capt. 
Forreft in 1783, and called by him one of the fineft harbours 
in the world. : 
Hasrixa’s Jfland, an ifland in the Mergui Archipelago, 
near the N. coait of the ifland-of St. Matthew, about four 
miles long, and two miles in its greateft breadth. N. lat. ] 
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-HASTIVE, a French term, fometimes ufed in Englifh 
for early, forward, or fomething that comes before the ordi- 
nary time or feafon : 
The haftive fruits are ftrawberries and cherries. 
haftive peas, &c. 
LT, a covering for the head, worn by the men through- f 
out the weftern part of Europe. 
_ Hats are chiefly made of hair, wool, &c. worked, fulled, 
and fafhioned to the figure of the head. — 
“Hats are faid to have been firit feen about the year 1400, 
at which time they became of ufe for country wear, riding, 
&c. . F. Daniel relates, that when Charles II. made his 
_public entry into Rouen, in 1449, he had on a hat lined with 
red velvet, and {urmounted with a plume, or tuft of feathers : 
hey were at leait 
upon penalty 
ndeed, the ufe of 
colleges, &c. 
Lobinean obferves, that a bifhop of Dol, in the twelfth 
century, zealous for good or ed the canons alone’ 
to wear fuch hats; enjoining, that if any other perfon come 
with them church, divine fervice fhould immediately 
be fufpended. Tom. i. p. 845. 
Hats make a very confiderable article in commerce: the 
finelt, and thofe moft valued, are made of pure lias of we 
We have 
& HAT 
Ca 
other provinces of 
Braver. 
orth America. Seé 
to inftance in that of caftors. 
The {kin of this animal is covered with two kinds of hair; 
the one long, ftiff, gloffy, and pretty thin fet : this is what 
renders the {kin, or fur, of fo much value: the ether is fhort, 
thick, and foft, which alone is ufed in hats. . 
To tear off one of thefe kinds of hair, and cut the other, 
make wu 
knife, wherewith they fhave, or ferape off, the fhorter hair. 
When the hair is off, they mix. the ftuff: to one-third of 
with cards, like thofe ufed in the woollen m 
finer ; this done, they weigh it, and take more 
cording to the fize or thicknefs of the hat intended. ‘The 
rallel to the horizon, having longitudinal chinks cut thro 
it : is hurdle, with an inftrument c 
ficult operations in the whole, on account of the jutt- 
of hair, through which they pafs the fluff. 
After this manner they form gores, or two capades, of an 
oval form, ending in an acute angle at top ; and with what 
ituff remains, they fupply and itrengthen them in places 
where they happen to be flenderer than ordinary ; though 
it is to be remembered, that they defignedly make them 
thicker in the brim, near the crown, than tow 
cumference, or in the-crown itfelf, 
a fort of mould being applied the: 
g with the water and prefling, imkodics the matter mto 4 flight 
hairy fort of ftuff, or felt ; after which, turning up the ee 
all round the mould, they lay it by, and thus proceed ® 
the other; this finifhed, the ‘two next are joined togethers 
fo as to meet in an angle at the top, and only form one 
nical cap, after the manner of a manica Hippocrat nek 
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dipped in th 
after ie 
ards the cit ° 
amphibious animal, called the caftor or beaver, frequent in — 
nada, and N. 
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