HER 
kind; and he wrought by means of a looking 
gagu ee | : 
glafs his charaéters from his own face. 
‘There were two other 
year I H 
three lait books of the Onomatticon of Julius Pollux, which 
was publifhed in 1706, when he was a very 
On this oceafion he received a compli 
and Emendations on Xenophon Ephefius,” inferted in the 
Mifcellanea Critica of Amfterdam; “ Obfervations on 
Chryfottom’s Homily on the Epiftle of Philemon,” and 
many other pieces ; particularly an edition of fome parts 
of Lucian, in three volumes 4to.. He was accounted an 
extent of his learning, as 
POUR, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 
~ in theycircar of ud; 14 miles S.E. of Calpy. 
IN, in Ornithology, 
gallus, which fee. For t 
hen, fee 
siAnus. In the choice of hens for domettic ufe, they fhould 
be carefully fele&ted, if we would have a genuine race; but 
if we want to vary and improve the fpecies, the breed mnit 
be crofled. To this purpofe Columella exprefsly fays, that 
the belt poultry is produced by the union of a cock of a 
foreign family with the ordinary hens; and we find in Athe- 
meus, that this idea was i 1, a cock pheaf. i 
. 
n@ given 
cafe we ought to chufe 
a li ing red comb, and 
no {purs, The proportions of their body are, in gene 
ore flender than the m: 
and their legs thorter. Sagacious farmers, it is faid, prefer 
and more Cape the piercing fight of the birds of 
rapine, which hover near the farm-yard. : 
“§ > 
HEN 
union of the male, 
quor of both fexes; but when this has taken place, its 
effects are durable. 
thefe never produce 
hens that are too fat. 
and hemp-feed have been 
The giving them 2 little animal 
as alfo been fuppofed to hake them 
(See Harcuine and Incusarion.) _ It is feldom 
that a hen clutches a brood of chickens more than once ina 
feafon. The number of eggs laid in a year by the domettic 
hen are above 2003 provided that the be well fed an 
plied with water. Her nett, if left to herfelf, requires little 
previous preparation ; and, warned by natural inftiné, the 
gives notice of the proper time for hatching by a low 
clucking note, and by ceafing to lay. This elucking-feafon 
is fometimes artificially protraéted, and fometimes altoge her 
fet afide by thofe who derive greater profits from the eggs 
than from the chickens. Accordingly, the hen is ftinted 
in her provifions, and fometimes, to the hazard of her life, 
lunged in cold water. Ifthe hen be left to herfelf, the 
bils a adege 
continues to fit till they are exclu 
various ways feck the food that is neceffary to fupply their 
wants She recals them when they wander, fp: 7 
ailing wings. hoarfe 
ife to. danger in. their de nce. WwW 
be that affails them, fhe warns them by i Tal 
cries, and boldly attacks the’ foe, whilit her brood are dr.vert 
es 
