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bin, with a cloth hanging on tenter-hooks 
within it, to receive the hops as they are 
picked. 
The flops must be picked very clean, i. e. 
free from leaves and stalks; and, as there 
shall lie occasion, two or three times in a day 
the bin must be emptied into a hop-bag made 
ot coarse linen cloth, and carried immediate- 
ly to the oast or kiln in order to be dried; 
for it they should be long in the bin or bag, 
they will be apt to heat and be discoloured. 
If the weather is hot, there should no more 
poles be drawn than can be picked in an 
hour, and they should be gathered in fair 
weather, if it can be, and when the hops are 
dry; this will save some expence in tiring, 
and preserve their colour better when they 
are dried. 
Dr/fing. The best method of drying hops 
is with charcoal on an oast or kiln, covered 
with hair-cloth, of the same form and fashion 
that is used for drying malt. There is no 
need to give any particular directions for 
making these, since every carpenter or brick- 
layer in those countries where hops grow, or 
malt is made, knows how to build them. The 
kiln ought to be square, and may be of ten, 
twelve, fourteen, or sixteen feet over at the 
top, where the hops are laid, as your planta- 
tion requires, and your room will allow. 
There ought to be a due proportion between 
the height and breadth of the kiln and the 
begiiek of the steddle where the fire is kept, 
viz. if the kiln is twelve feet square on the 
top, it ought to be nine feet high from the 
fire, and the steddle ought to be six f?et and 
a half square, and so proportionable in other 
dimensions. 
The hops must be spread even upon the 
oast a foot thick or more, if the depth of the 
curb will allow it; but care is to be taken 
not to overload the oast if the hops are green 
or wet. The oast ought to be first warmed 
with a fire before the hops are laid on, and 
then an even steady lire must be kept under 
them ; it must not be too fierce at first, lest 
it scorch the hops, nor must it be suffered to 
sink or slacken, but rather be increased till 
the hops are nearly dried, lest the moisture 
or sweat which the fire has raised fall back 
or discolour them. When they have lain 
about nine hours they must be turned, and 
in two or three hours more they may be 
taken off. the oast. It may be known when 
they are well dried by the brittleness of the 
stalks and the easy falling off of tiie hop- 
leaves. 
Bagging. As soon as tire hops are taken 
off the kiln, lay them in a room for three 
weeks or a month to cool, give, and toughen ; 
for if they are bagged immediately they will 
powder, but if they lie a while (and the longer 
they lie the better, provided they are cover- 
ed close with blankets to secure them from 
the air) they may be bagged with more safe- 
ty, as not being liable to be broken to powder 
in treading; and this will make th m bear 
treading the better, and the harder they are 
trodden the better they will keep. 
Lam relating to hops. By 9 Anne, cap. 
121, an additional duty of 3d. a pound is laid 
on all hops imported, over and above all 
other duties; and hops landed before entry 
and payment of duty, or without warrant for 
landing, shall be forfeited and burnt; the sh p 
Hso shall be forfeited, and due person con- j 
cerncd in importing or landing shall forfeit 
5/. a hundred weight, 7 Geo. II. cap. 19. By 
9 Anne, cap. 12, there shall he paid a. duty 
of Id. for every pound of hops grown iii 
Great Britain, and made fit for use, within six 
months after they are cured and bagged ; and 
hop-grounds are required to be entered on 
pain of 40.v. an acre. Places of curing and 
keeping are also to be entered on pain of 
50/. which may be visited by an officer at 
any time without obstruction, under the pe- 
nalty ot 20/. All hops shall, within six weeks 
alter gathering, be brought to such places to 
be cured and bagged, on pain of 3s. a pound. 
'1 he re-bagging of foreign hops in British 
bagging for sale or exportation, incurs a for- 
feiture of 10/. a hundred weight; and de- 
frauding the king of his duty by using twice 
or oftener the same bag, with the officer’s 
mark upon it, is liable to a penalty of 40/. 
The removal of hops before they have been 
bagged and weighed, incurs a penalty of 50/. 
Concealment ot hops subjects to the forfeiture 
of 20/. and the concealed hops; and any per- 
son who shall privately convey away any 
hops with intent to defraud the king and 
owner, shall forfeit 5s. a pound. And the 
duties are required to be paid within six 
months after curing, bagging, and weighing, 
on pain of double duty, two-thirds to the 
king, and one third to' the informer. No 
common brewer shall use any bitter ingre- 
dient instead of hops, on pain of 20/. Hops 
which have paid the duty may be exported 
to Ireland; but by 6 Geo. 11. cap. 1 1, there 
shall be no drawback; and by 7 Geo. II. cap. 
19- no foreign hops shall be landed in Ire- 
land. Notice of bagging and weighing shall 
be sent in writing to the officer, on pain of 
50/. 6 Geo. cap. 21. And by 14 Geo. III. 
cap. G8. the officer shall, on pain of 5/. weigh 
the bags or pockets, and mark on them the 
true weight or tare, the planter’s name and 
place of abode, and the date of the year in 
which such hops were grown ; and the alter- 
ing or forging, or obliterating such mark, in- 
curs a forfeiture of 1 0/. The owners of hops 
shall keep at their oasts, &c. just weights and 
scales, and permit the officer to use them, 
on pain of 20/. 6 Geo. cap. 21. And by 10 
Geo. III. cap. 44. a penalty of 100/. is in- 
flicted for false scales and weights. The 
owners are allowed to use casks instead of 
bags, under the same regulations, 6 Geo. 11. 
cap. 21. If any person shall mix with hops 
any drug to alter the colour or scent, he 
shall forfeit 5/. a hundred weight. If any 
person shall unlawfully and maliciously cut 
hop-binds growing on poles in any plantation 
he shall be guilty of felony without benefit of 
clergy. 6 Geo. II. cap. 37. By a late act, 
five per cent, is added to the duties on hops. 
HUNDRED. In the time of king Alfred 
the kingdom was in gross, and then divided 
into counties and hundreds, and all persons 
came within one hundred or other. 
By stat. 2 Ed. III. c. 12. it was enacted, 
that all hundreds and wapentakes granted bv 
the king, shall be annexed to the king, and 
not severed. And by 1 4 Ed. III. c. 9. that 
all hould be annexed, and the sheriff should 
have power to put in bailiffs, for whic h he will 
answer, and no more shall be granted for the 
future. 
Hundreds are not answerable to persons 
who are robbed travelling on a Sunday. 29 
Car. U. tv 7, 
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Hundreds are liable to penalty on export 
tation of wool. 7 and 8 W . III. c. 28. 
Hundreds are liable to damages sustained 
by pulling down buildings. 1 Geo. 1. c. 5. 
Hundreds are liable for damages by killing 
cattle, cutting down trees, burning houses, 
&c. 9 Geo. 1. c. 22, and 29 Geo. 11. c. 3(5. 
Hundreds are liable for damages incurred 
by destroying turnpikes or works on navigable 
rivers. 8 Geo. II. c. 20. 
) By cutting hop-binds, 10 Geo. II. c. 32. 
By destroying corn to prevent exportation, 
1 1 Geo. 11 . c. 22. Bv wounding officers of 
the customs, 19 Geo'. II. c. 34; or by de- 
stroying wood, &c. 29 Geo. II. c. 36. 
All monies recovered against the hundred 
to be levied by a rate. 22 Geo. II. c. 46. 
HUNGARY-water, a distilled water, so 
denominated from a queen of Hungary, for 
whose use it was first prepared. 
Quincey gives the following directions for 
making it: lake of fresh gathered flowers of 
rosemary two pounds, rectified spirits of 
wine two quarts; put them together, and 
distil them immediately in balneo. 
II UR A, a genus of the monadelphia or- 
der, in the rnonoecia class of plants, and in 
the natural method ranking under the 38th 
order, tricoccie. The amentum of the male 
is imbricated, the perianthium truncated : 
there is no corolla; the filaments are cylin- 
drical, peltated oh top, and surrounded with 
numerous or double anther*. The female 
has neither calyx nor corolla; the style is j 
funnel-shaped; the stigma cleft in twelve ■ 
parts; the capsule is twelve-celled, with a ! 
single seed in each cell. There is bnt one 
species, viz. the crepitans, a native of the j 
\\ est Indies. It rises with a soft ligneous, j 
stem to the height of 24 feet, dividing into ; 
many branches. After the flower, the ger- ; 
men swells, and becomes a round compressed; ; 
ligneous capsule, having 12 deep furrows, j 
each being a distinct cell, containing one ! 
large round compressed seed. When the 
pods are ripe, they burst with violence, and 
throw out their seeds to a considerable dis- 
tance. It is propagated by seeds raised on a- j 
hot-bed; and the plants, must be constantly \ 
kept in a stove. '1 he kernels are said to be \ 
purgative, and sometimes emetic. 
HURDLES, in fortification, twigs of wil- i 
lows or osieis interwoven close together, ^ 
sustained by long stakes, and usually laden 
with earth. See Fortification. 
HURRICANE, a furious storm owing to. i 
a contrariety of winds. See AV in d. 
H urricanes are frequent in the West Indies, i 
where they make terrible ravages,, by rooting 
up tiees, destroying houses and shipping, and 
even whole plantations. 
1 hese dreadful convulsions of nature, Dr. 
Pei kins, of Boston, in America, supposes to 
be caused by some occasional obstruction in, 
the usual and natural progress of the equato- ; 
i ial tiade winds. 1 he reason he assigns for 
this conjecture is, the more than usual calnv ; 
which commonly precedes them. In the na- 
tuial course of the trade winds, the air rises 
up in the line, and passes off towards the 
poles, and, in the more contracted degrees of 
the higher latitudes, takes the course of (he 
west trade-winds, so that could their ascent 
he prevented through the whole circle of the ’ 
zone, there would be no more west winds in. 
those latitudes than in any other. Y«ry yio- 
