of Bitcay, and furnifh the reader with m 
: Public much 
HEN 
intorfome place of fecurity. ‘The number of chickens which 
agood hen can rear and clutch at a time is about 10 or 12 3 
but this bears a {mall proportion to the number of ergs fhe 
lays; and, therefore, recourfe has been had to artificial 
methods of hatching in aid of her own efforts. See Hater 
ana. See _ CnicKkens, Fowt, and Pout 
Hew, Guinea. See Numivia Meleagris 
_ Hen id Chickens, in Geography, a clutter of {mall iflands 
in the South Pacific ocean, near the coaft of New meg 
one of them is high, and comida’ in two peaks. ts 
35°53’: W. long 180° 1 —Alfo, a group of fmall iflands 
in the Eaft Indian fea. S. lat. 5? 30’. E. long. 118° 3’. 
HENAO, Gantet pr, in Biography, was born in 1611. 
He entered, when he was about 15 years of age, into the 
order of the Jefuits at Salamanca, and fpent the greatett 
eg ‘of his life in that univerfity. After he had been long 
n the habit of teaching philofophy and fcholattic theology, 
siete admitted to the degree of dodtor of divinity, and 
i i e obtained a very 
high reputation by the folutions which he gave to perfons 
o came from all parts to confult him in cafes of conicience. 
ci lived to the great age of nine ty-three, and continued to 
perform the duties of profeffor till within three years of that 
time. His works confit of eleven folio volumiess all written 
in the Latin language. Nine o: are compofed of 
Seay on philofophical, theological, and Binet fub- 
; the others are devoted toan account of the antiquities 
uch curious and in- 
terefting matter; they are entitled Bitcaya Tiluftrata.”” 
He was a. = sees. {maller pieces not inferted in t 
- colleGtion. 
HENAULT, Cia Joun-Fxaxers the fon of a 
emy by 
he othe a eae which met with ill Pieces, i 
pee in 1768, by Mr. Walpole, at Strawberry-hill. He 
ean affociate of the French Academy in 1723, an 
about the ‘time was reseed into the Academy of 
Inferiptions, and other learned focieties. He was ap- 
pointed honorary prefident of the ing ment, 
which the leading -faéts are thrown into a tabular 
the Portraits of the mott celebrated perfons are drawn, and 
It has been tranflated — feveral languages, and has ferved 
as a model for 8 oo 
cag ctegonee =s ira ilar kind ; 
is enemy and facceh , Calbert 
Wards have of se he fappretiedy bir but it was ae 
sok ghia as a party piece, 
Called in. eg, gaeugassi “colleGion of ‘poems in O105 of 
mained, would have given him much celebrity. 
ed in the f in. 3 
H E-N 
which, one was a fonnet, “ On an Abortion,” coastal by 
This ex- 
time occupied 
rather eager in propagating his i e went to 
the fubjeét of religion Henault knew but little, and on the 
approach of death, he was probably alarmed at the future, 
and fubmitted beiniclf to his confeffor, by whofe advice he 
burnt part of his tran{lation of Lucretius, which, according 
1682, oad his printed works confitt of fonnets, of letters, 
and of an imitation.of two aéts of the 'Troas of Senéca. 
‘Bayle. Gen. Biog. 
HENBANE, in Botany. See reser ware 
HENBANE, in the Materia Medica. This plant, which 
is a native of England, and grows commonly amo: igt rub- 
bith, about villages, road-fides, &c. and flowers in Jun 
has been ufed Se ie ; but the adminiltration of it re 
t has a ftrong peculiar zg aN pane 
of 
ea it appears that a. part of the si when taken in 
fufficient quantity, is capable of producing very dangerous 
and terrible fymptoms. The roots, bone are biennial, long, 
compact, white, and befet with many fibres, have been eaten 
by nine perfons, fome of whom were fects and fhewed 
no other figns of life than by convulfions, contortions of 
their limbs, and the rifus fardonicus; fome had wee eyes 
arti their heads, and their mouths draw 
wards on both fides; others of them had all the fy pt toms 
alike ; but oe of them now and then open their mouths 
lin On their recovery, all objects 
as red {varlet, a two or three ays. 
erely a ey ay 
an ai ‘ravings, timate of fight, and a loud 
fleep, which in one of them lafted two days and nights, 
Thefe were all recovered by bleeding, a purging, 
Vhat fir Hans obferves particularly of the 
hi Aaa a thefe 
ind, was of the nature 
of that produced by the dutroa, a fpecies of {tramonium, 
and by the bangue of the Eaft Indies, which is a plant with 
leaves like hemp. 
bi a-vieeieet of this feed may compenfate for the mifchief it 
manner ; in the tooth.ache, 
equal to it. Sir Hans Shean menticns 
cured this 
