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various colours, produces the greater variety. Horn is 
alfo made to imitate tortoife-lhell. For this purpofe take 
of quick-lime two parts, and of litharge one part; tem¬ 
per them together to the confiltence of a foft pafte with 
i'oap-ley. Put this pafte over all the parts of the horn, 
except fuch as are intended to be left tranlparent, in or¬ 
der to give it a nearer refemblance of the tortoife-fhell. 
The horn mult remain in this manner covered with the 
pafte till it be thoroughly dry ; when, the pafte being 
brulhed off, the horn will be found partly opaque, and 
partly tranlparent, in the manner of tortoife-fhell; and, if 
judicioufly performed, will be fcarcely diftinguifhable 
from it. 
Human Horns. In Dr. Leigh’s Natural Hiftory of Lan- 
cafhire, is the figure of a woman with two horns. When 
fhe was twenty-eight years of age, an excrefcence grew 
upon her head like a wen, which continued thirty years, 
and then grew into two horns. After four years fire calt 
them, and in their place grew two others. After four 
years fhe call: thefe alfo; and. the horns which were on 
her head in 1668 (the time when the account was writ¬ 
ten) were then ioofe. Her pifture and one of her horns 
were preferved in Afhmole’s mufeum. In the univerfity 
library at Edinburgh, is alfo preferved a horn which was 
cut from the head of Elizabeth Love, in tire 50th year of 
her age. It grew three inches above the ear, and was 
growing feven years. 
HORN, a town of Sweden, in the province of Eaft 
Gothland: thirty-two miles fouth of Linkioping. 
HORN, or Hoo'ren, a town of Germany, in Auftria, 
celebrated for its beer, made of oats, font by water to all 
the principal towns of Auftria : forty miles north-weft of 
Vienna. Lat. 48. 35. N. Ion. 33.21. E. Ferro. 
HORN, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and county 
of Lippe, near which is a plain, called Vinfdd, or the Field 
cf ViElory, fuppofed to be the place where Varus perifhed : 
fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Detmouid. Lat. 51.54. N. 
Ion. 26. 1. E. Eerro. 
HORN. See Hoorn. 
HORN. See Cape Horn. 
HORN, an ifland on the coaft of Weft Florida, in the 
American States, between Ship and Maffacre iflands: fe- 
venteen miles long, and about a mile wide. 
HORN under HORN. The promifcuous feeding of 
bulls and cows in fucceflion, that are allowed to run to¬ 
gether upon the fame common. Spelman. To which may 
be added, that the commoning of cattle horn with horn, 
•was properly when the inhabitants of different diltrifts let 
their common herds run upon the fame open common, 
that lay within the bounds of feveral parifhes, and there¬ 
fore, that there might be no difpute upon the right of 
tithes, the bilhop ordains, that the cows fhould pay all 
profit to the minifter of the parifh where the owner of 
them lived. Cowell. 
HORN-MUSIC. This mufic, or rather inftrument, pe¬ 
culiar to Ruflia, was invented about fifty years ago in the 
reign of the emprefs Elizabeth, by a Mr. Mareich, a na¬ 
tive of Bohemia, and one of the mulicians of her court. 
It is a perfect living organ, where every pipe or tone is 
founded by one man, who cannot produce any other but 
that one individual tone on his horn. A complete band 
of horn muficians confifts of near forty performers, (never 
lels than twenty-five,) who found the completed fympho- 
nies of every kind, from the flowed: largo to the quickeft 
prejiijjimo, with admirable fkill and accuracy. Each per¬ 
former blows into a ltraight hollow cone, which refts on a 
frame, and which merely fupplies fhe place cf the pipe of 
an organ. 
IIORN'-TOWN, a town of the American States, in 
Maryland: thirty-one miles from Snowhill, twenty-fix 
from Drummond, or Accomack court-houfe, in Virginia, 
and 168 from Philadelphia. 
HOkNA'CHES, a town of Spain, in the province cf 
Eftremadura : twenty miles north of Llerena. 
HORN'BACH, a town, of Germany, on the Upper 
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Rhine, and duchy of Deux Ponts: five miles louth o£ 
Deux Ponts, and thirty-five weft of Landau. Lat. 49. n.NL 
Ion. 25. 1. E. Ferro. 
HORN'BEAM, or Horn-beechTree. See Carpinus.- 
HORN'BERG, a town of Germany, on the Lower 
Rhine, and county of Recklinghaufen: two miles eaft of 
Recklinghaufen, and forty-three north of Cologne. 
HORN'BERG, a town of Germany, in Swabia, and 
duchy of YVurtemberg, in the Scliwartzwaide: ieventeen- 
miles north-eaft of Friberg, and thirty-eight fouth weft 
of Stuttgard. 
HORN'BOOK, f. The firft book of children, covered 
with horn 10 keep it unfoiled : 
To mafter John the Englifh maid 
A hornbook gives of ginger-bread 5 
And, that the child might learn the better. 
As he can name, he eats the letter. Prior «. 
HORN'BURG, a town of Germany, in Lower S i rony-, 
and principality of Halberftadt, on the Ule: eight;- n 
miles weft-north-weft of Halberftadt, and ten north-eaft 
of Goflar. 
HORN BY, a fmall town in Lancafhire, fituated on the 
river Lun orLune, almoft at the extremity of the county, 
adjoining to Weftmoreiar.d ; it is 244 miles from London, 
nine from Lancafte - , and nineteen from Kendal. Here 
is a fair every Tuefday fortnight for cattle ; alfo one an¬ 
nual fair on the 30th and 31ft of July. The market ufed 
to be on Friday ; but, on account of the fortnightly fair, 
it is difcontinued. Here is a handfome ftone bridge, with 
three arches, acrofs the Lun; alfo a noble caftle ftands on 
a hill, which commands a delightful profpeft; it has a 
large fquare tower, and a lofty round one. The church, 
which is a handfome Gothic ftruchire, has an octagon 
tower. Here is a large manufactory for cotton. 
HORN'CASTLE, a large well-built town in Lincoln- 
fhire, ieated on the banks of the river Lane, and from 
thence called by the Romans Bauoval'um ; the wall which- 
furrounded it is vifible in many places; the Roman Ra¬ 
tion or camp here was a perfect parallelogram, compoied 
of two fquares. It is a leigniory or l'cke of thirteen lord- 
finips, and was given by Richard II. to the biftiop of Car- 
lifle and his fuccefibrs. In thefe lordlhips there,are l'eve- 
ral chapels for the convenience of the inhabitants who 
are at too great a diftance from the mother-church, and 
are pretty numerous. The town is almoft furrounded 
with water ; and is fuppofed to have been the ccflra hy~ 
lierna of the Romans during their continuance in the 
illand; as Tatterftiall, a final! market-town bordering on 
the fens, furniihed them with the afnva, or fummer-refi- 
dence, of the army ftationed in thofe parts. Horncaftle 
is lituated in a beautiful vale, twenty-two miles weft from 
the lea, and twenty-one eaft of Lincoln. Its trade has 
been confiderably increafed by a navigable canal, fet on 
foot in ccnfequence of an aft of parliament palled for 
that purpole in 1792. Here is a capital grammar-lchool, 
endowed by lord Clinton and Saye, and chartered by 
queen Elizabeth, 1571, in the thirteenth year of her reign. 
Alio a charity-fchool for poor children, the donation of 
Richard Watl’on, gent. A public difpenfary was found¬ 
ed here by fubfeription in 1789 for the benefit of the 
poor, and which confifts of a prefiJent, vice-prefidents, a 
treafurer, governors, and a l'ecretary ; together with me¬ 
dical and chirurgical afiiftance of the firft charafter. The 
market is held on Saturdays, and is not inferior to any 
in England for plenty of provifions. Here are three very 
capital fairs, June 22, Auguft 21, and October 19, chielly 
for horfes, but not to the exclulion of lheep and horned 
cattle. The Oftober fair has a good lhow of horned cat¬ 
tle and lheep, elpecialiy rams. Thefe lairs are well known 
all over England, they being lo famous for horles. That 
in Auguft begins nearly three weeks before the day on 
which the fair is ftated to commence. The others are 
not lb confiderable. 
KORN'DON, called alfo, from its fituation, Herndon on 
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