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country; but the Englifh have been long in pofleflion of 
the logwood traft in the Bay of Honduras, cutting large 
quantities of it every year. And the Mol’quito Indians 
to the eaft of this province have entered into treaties with 
the Englifh, received them into their country, and done 
them feveral fervices. Belides, the Spaniards have no 
forts in this bay or in the country of the Molquitos, only 
two fmall towns. 
HONDU'RAS (Sea of,) that part of the North Sea 
bounded north by the ifland of Cuba, fouth by the Mof- 
quito Shore, fouth-weft by the bay of Honduras, weft by 
the peninfiula of Yucatan, north-weft by the gulf of Mexi¬ 
co, eaft-north-ealt by Jamaica and the Caribbean Sea. 
HONDU'RAS (Bay of,) noted for cutting of logwood, 
as that of Campeachy formerly was. It lies in the pro¬ 
vince of the lame name, and opens betwixt Cape Hondu¬ 
ras in lat. 13. 30. N. and Cape Catoche, the eafternmoft 
point of Yucatan in lat. 21. 30. N. The diftance between 
thefe capes is tw r o hundred and feventy miles. The great 
lake of Nicaragua has an outlet into it by the river Anu- 
zelos, or Angelos, only navigable by fmall craft. In this 
bay are feveral fmall illands, particularly the Pearl Illands, 
a little to the north, but the pearls fiflied up are not in 
fiuch quantities as formerly, nor fo large. Sugar river 
alfo, a fmall river from Veraguas, falls into it. It has its 
name from the quantity of l’ugar-works, with which the 
country abounds. The part of the country where the 
Englifh cut their logwood is a continued flat, and a great 
part of it a morafs, with feveral lagoons, which are very 
often overflowed. The cutters amount to upwards of fix- 
teen hundred men; but form no regular colony; yet they 
choole a chief, who cannot have lefs authority, luxury, 
or emolument, or whole lubjefts are more dil'obedient. 
The quantity of wood annually furniflied by the bay has 
been valued at twenty thoul’and tons. The Englifh ex¬ 
port only about fix thoufand ; but the principal branch of 
the trade was till lately carried on by the Dutch, whole 
annual clear profit ufed to amount to about ninety thon- 
land pounds fterling. The bay is fprinlcled with an infi¬ 
nity of fhoals, rocks, and clullers of drowned illands, 
which abound with great numbers of green turtle. There 
are feveral channels between them, among which a fhip 
fhould not venture without an experienced pilot. The 
manati is frequently met with here, and that called theJew- 
filh, which is fomething like the cod, but thicker in pro¬ 
portion, and much better eating. They have very broad 
fcales, and fome of them weigh eighty pounds, or up¬ 
wards. 
HONDU'ROS, a town of the ifland of Cuba: fixty- 
three miles north-eaft of Bayamo. 
HONE, f. [This word M. Cafaubon derives from aaonj, 
Gr. Junius from hogfaen, Welfh; Skinner from hsen, Sax. 
a ftone; haenan, to ftone.] A whetftone for a razor.—A 
hone and a parer to pare away grafs. TuJJer. 
To HONE, v. n. [hongian, Sax.] To pine ; to long for 
any thing. 
HO'NE-WORT, f. in botany. See Sison. 
HO'NEBURG, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and 
bifhopric of Ofnabruck: one mile north of Olnabruck. 
HON'EST, adj. \jione[ic, Fr. honejfus, Lat.] Upright; 
true; lincere.—An honeji phyfician leaves his patient, when 
he can contribute no further to his health. Temple. 
What art thou ? 
—A very ftonefl- hearted fellow, and as poor as the king. 
Shakefpeare. 
Chafte.—Wives may be merry, and yet honeji too. Shake- 
fpeare. —Juft ; righteous ; oppofed to violence.—An honeji 
man, like the true religion, appeals to the underftanding, 
or modeftly confides in the internal evidence of his con¬ 
fidence. The impoftor employs force inlfead of argument, 
impofes iilence where he cannot convince, and propagates 
his character by the fword. Junius. 
HON'ESTLY, adv. Uprightly; juftly. 
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It doth make me tremble, 
There fliould thofe lpirits yet breathe, that when they 
cannot 
Live honejtly, would rather perifh bafely. Ben JonJon. 
With ehaftity; modeftly. 
HON'ESTY, f. [ honejlete, Fr. konejlas, Lat.] Juftice j 
truth ; virtue ; purity : 
Thou fhalt not have thy hufband’s lands. 
—Why then my honejly fhall be my dower. Shakefpeare . 
HON'ESTY, f. in botany. See Lunaria. 
HON'EY,/ [humj, Sax. honig, Dut. honec, honag, Ger.] 
A thick, vifeous, fluid fubftance, of awhitifh oryellowifh 
polour, fiweet to the tafte, folubie in water, and becoming 
vinous on fermentation, inflammable, liquable by a gefitle 
heat, and of a fragrant fmell. Of honey, the firft and fineft 
kind is virgin honey, not very firm, and of a fragrant fmell: 
it is the firft produce of the bee, obtained by draining 
the combs without prefling. See the article Apis, vol. 1. 
р. 79+-7<)8> 
So work the honey- bees, 
Creatures that by a ruling nature teach 
The art of order to a peopled kingdom. Shakefpeare . 
Sweetnefs; lufeioufnefs: 
A ^o»ry-tongue, a heart of gall 
Is fancy’s fpring, but forrow’s fall. Shakefpeare, 
Sweet; fweetnefs; a word of tendernefs : 
Honey, you fhall be well defir’d in Cyprus; 
I’ve found great love amongft them. Oh, my fweet, 
I prattle out of fafhion, and I dote. Shakefpeare. 
All veflels of honey are to be marked with the name of 
the owner, and be of a certain content, under penalties ; 
and, if any honey fold be corrupted with any deceitful 
mixture, the feller Ihall forfeit the honey, by flat. 23 Eliz. 
с. 8. 
Several of the ancient writers, particularly Xenophon 
and Diodorus Siculus, have mentioned inftances of dele¬ 
terious effefts being produced by the ufe of honey, fup- 
poled to have been fucked in by the bees from poifonous 
plants; and Dr. Barton, profeflbr of natural hiftory in 
the univerfity of Pennfylvania, obferved a fimilar kind of 
honey in the weftern parts of Pennfylvania, near the river 
Ohio. The following, as far as he was able to afeertain, 
are the fymptoms produced by honey of this defeription : 
in the beginning comes on a dimnefs of fight or vertigo, 
lucceeded by a delirium, which is fometimes mild and 
pleafant, and fometimes ferocious; ebriety, pain in the 
ftomach and inteftines, convulfions, profufe perfpiration, 
foaming at the mouth, vomiting, and purging ; and, in 
a few inftances, death has followed. In fome perfons, a 
vomitingds the firft effedt of the poifon. When this is 
the cafe, it is probable, that the perfons fuffer much lefs 
from the honey than when no vomiting is induced. Some¬ 
times the honey has been obferved to produce a tempo¬ 
rary pally of the limbs; an effedt which has been remarked 
in animals that have eaten of thofe vegetables from whole 
flowers the bees obtain this pernicious honey. Death, 
however, is very feldom the confequence of eating this 
kind of honey. The violent impreflion w'hich it makes 
upon the ftomach and inteftines often induces an early 
vomiting or purging, which are both favourable to the 
fpeedy recovery of the fufferer. The fever which it ex¬ 
cites is frequently relieved by the profufe perfpiration, 
and perhaps by the foaming at the mouth. In fome cafes, 
intoxication was the only effect which followed the ufe 
of this dangerous honey. The figns pointed out by the 
bee-hunters, as diltinguilhing the poifonous from the 
wholefome, appear to Dr. Barton to be very fallacious ; 
and he is not yet acquainted with anjj means of obviating 
the effects produced by the ufe of the former. The plants, 
from the flowers of which the bees are capable of extraff- 
ing a deleterious honey, are principally the Kalmia an- 
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