HUE 
HOUTTUYNIA in botany, so called in 
honour of Mart. Houttuyn, M.D. a genus 
of the Monoecia Monandria class and order. 
Natural order of Piperit®. Aroidece, Jus- 
sieu. Essential character i calyx four- 
leaved; corolla none; stamens mixed with 
the pistils. There is only one species, viz. 
H. cordata, it was discovered in Japan, be- 
tween Miaco and Jeddo. 
HOY, in naval architecture, a small ves- 
sel fitted only with one mast. 
HUDSON’S bay company. See Company. 
HUDSONIA, in botany, from William 
Hudson, a genus of the Dodecandria Mo- 
nogynia class and order. Natural order 
of Biconies. Eric®, Jussieu. Essential 
character: calyx five-leaved, tubular; co- 
rolla none ; stamens fifteen ; capsule one 
celled, three valved, three seeded. There 
is only one species, viz. H. ericoides a na- 
tive of Virginia. 
HUE and CRY, is the ancient common 
law process after felons, and such as have 
dangerously wounded any person, or assault- 
ed any one with intent to rob him. Apd 
it lias received great countenance and au- 
thority by several acts of parliament. In 
spry of these cases, the party grieved, or any 
other, may resort to the constable of the 
vill ; and, 1st, give him such reasonable 
assurance of the fact as the nature of 
the case will bear ; 2. If he know the name 
of him that did it, he must tell the con- 
stable ; 3. If he know it not, but can de- 
scribe him, he must describe him, his per- 
son or his habit, or his house, or such cir- 
cumstances as he knows, which may con- 
duce to the discovery ; 4. If the thing be 
done in the night, so that he knows none 
of these circumstances, he must mention 
the number of persons, or the way they 
took; 5. If none of all these can be dis- 
covered, as where a robbery, or burglary, 
or other felony is committed in the night, 
yet they are to acquaint the constable with 
the fact, and desire him to search his town 
for suspected persons, and to make hue 
and cry after such as may probably be 
suspected, as being persons vagrant in the 
same night ; for many circumstances' may 
happen to be useful for discovering a male- 
factor, which cannot at first be found out. 
For the levying of hue and cry, although 
it is a good course to have a justice’s war- 
rant, where time will permit, in order to 
prevent causeless hue and cry; yet it is 
not necessary, nor always convenient ; for 
the felon may escape before the warrant 
be obtained. And upon hue and cry 
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levied against any person, or where any 
hue and cry comes to a constable, whether 
the person be certain or uncertain, the con- 
stable may search suspected places with- 
in his vill, for the apprehending of the 
felon. And if the person, against whom 
the hue and cry is raised, be not found in 
the constablewick, then the constable, and 
also every officer to whom the hue and 
cry shall afterwards come, ought to give 
notice to every town round about him, and 
not to one next town only ; and so from one 
constable to another until the offender be 
found, or till they come to the sea side : and 
this was the law before the conquest. Hue 
and cry also is good, and must be pursued, 
though no person certain can be named or 
described. 
HUER, or Hver, the Icelandic name 
for streams of heated water, which are 
forced with great violence through aper- 
tures in the earth by internal causes to a 
great height, in that wretched Island. 
Numerous as are the phenomena of nature, 
there is none more capable of exciting asto- 
nishment and admiration than the huer. 
These grand fountains far exceed the most 
celebrated attempts to rival them, by many, 
very many fathoms, exclusive of possessing 
the property of increasing their beautiful 
effect by the discharge of steam in vast vo- 
lumes, almost resembling fleecy clouds. 
The heat of the water of the different foun- 
tains varies considerably, the fluid flowing 
gently from some, and spouting upwards 
from others in an actual state of boiling. 
Those which have the properties of com- 
mon springs, except in their heat, are called 
laug, or a bath ; the heat, though unequal, 
was never known to be less than 188 of 
Fahrenheit’s thermometer, and Dr. Von 
Troil found the water at Laugarnas 188, 
191, and 193. At Geyser, Reykum, and 
Laugarvatn, 212. 
It is not unusual to find the springs 
closed in some places, with others opened 
near them ; and there are traces of huers 
without a drop of water in their vicinity. 
Olafsen asserts, that a huer burst forth at 
Reikakio, in 1753, forty- two feet in breadth, 
eighteen in depth, and at three hundred, 
in distance from a spring, which had been 
overwhelmed by a fall of the adjoining soil. 
The water thus impeded in its progress 
occasioned convulsive motions in the earth, 
and loud explosions were heard by the 
inhabitants before the imprisoned stream 
obtained a vent. 
The apertures, through which the water 
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