H Binocull
H. Binocull • Univalves. Gen. 8. Argulus ; 9. Caligus; 10. Limulus. Nera Are Characterized By The Modification Of The Or Gans Of Mastication. Throughout This Volume We Find The Same Acuteness Of Observation, That Charac Terizes All The Works Of This, The First Of Entomolo Gists. Mr John Francillon ...
Haddingtonshire
Haddingtonshire, Or, As It Is Frequently Called, East Lothian. A County In Scotland, Si Tuated Between 55° 47' And 56° 5' North Latitude, And Between 2° 25' And 3° 2' West Longitude, From Greenwich. Its Boundaries Are The Frith Of Forth And German Ocean On The North And East ; ...
Hampshire
Hampshire, Or, As It Is Sometimes Called, The County Of Southampton, Or Of Hants, A Shire Of Eng Land On The British Channel. It Is Bounded On The East By Surrey And Sussex, On The North By Berk Shire, On The West By Wiltshire And Dorsetshire, And On The South ...
Hanover
Hanover. Busses, Which Are Employed In The Herring-fishery, And Usually Take And .cure From 12,000 To 14,000 Tons Of That Fish Annually. Fourth, The Vecht, A River Of Short Course, Rising In The Prussian Province Of Westphalia, And Terminating In The Zuyder Sea. Its Principal Importance Is Derived From A ...
Heberden William
Heberden (william), A Practical Physician Of Great Celebrity, Was Born In London In The Year 1710. He Was Sent At A Very Early Age, Near The End Of 1724, To St John's College, Cambridge. He Took His First Degree In 1728, And Obtained A Fellowship About 1780; He Became M. ...
Herculaneum
Herculaneum. Referring The Reader To The Encyclop.rdia For Some Account Of The Discovery And Antiquities Of This City, We Propose In The Present Article To Direct His Attention To The Attempts Which Have Been Made To Recover The Literary Treasures, Long Retained In A State Intermediate Between Exist Ence And ...
Herefordshire
Herefordshire, An Inland English County, Boanded On The North By Shropshire, East By Wor Cestershire, South By Gloucestershire And Mon Mouthshire, And West By The Welsh Counties Of Thecknock And Radnor. Its Greatest Length Is Thir Ty-eight, And Its Greatest Breadth Thirty-fne Miles. It Is Nearly Of A Circular Form ...
Hertford College
Hertford College. The Extension Of Our Empire In India, Which Now Contains Sixty Millions Of People, Has Made It Necessary To Pro Vide A Succession Of Able Men To Fill The Various Departments, Both Of The Civil And Military Govern Ment. Whilst At First The Royal Academy At Wool.. With, ...
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire, An Inland English County Of Great Riches, Derived Principally From Its Vici Nity To The Metropolis Of The British Empire. It Is Bounded By Essex On The East, By Bedfordshire And Cambridgeshire On The North, By Buckinghamshire On The West, And By Middlesex Pn The South. Its Extreme Length ...
Heyne Christian Gottlob
Heyne (christian Gottlob), An Illustrious Classical Scholar And Archaeologist, Was Born On The 25th September 1729, In A Suburb Of The City Of Chemnitz, In Saxony, Where His Father, Having Been Compelled By Some Religious Persecutions To Abandon His Native Country Of Silesia, Had Settled ; Supporting His Family, In ...
Himalaya
Himalaya Hien1011. Declaration Of The Opinion, That The Himalaya Is The Loftiest Range Of Alpine Mountains Which Has Yet Been Noticed, Its Most Elevated Peaks Greatly Ex Ceeding The Highest Of The Andes." On This Point, A Writer In The Quarterly Review Joins Issue, And Con Tends That, From The ...
Historical Sketch Of Late
Historical Sketch Of Late Events. It Remains To Conclude This Article By A Rapid Sketch Of The Most Remarkable Events That Have Oc Curred In France Since The Peace Of Presburg In 1805, Till Which Period The History Is Brought Down In The Encyclopedia. The Peace Of Presburg, Concluded After ...
Home Fisheries
Home Fisheries. The Alleged Neglect Of The Fisheries, On The Part Of Great Britain, Has Been The Subject Of Unqualified Censure, From A Very Early Period Of Her Naval And Maritime History, And Reproaches Have Been Dealt Out With No Sparing Hand, Not Only For Having Disregard Ed Those Advantages, ...
Home John
Home (john), A Scottish Dramatic Writer Of Great Celebrity, Was Born At Leith, On The 13th Sep Tember 1722. His Father, Mr Alexander Home, Was Town-clerk Of That Place, And His Mother Was A Daughter Of Mr John Hay, A Writer, Or Solicitor, In Edinburgh. He Acquired The Elementary Branches ...
I Situation And Extent
I. Situation And Extent ; Face Of The Try ; Climate And Soil. Important Part Of Continental Europe Extends From The 43d To The 51st Degree Of N. Lat. And Long. 8.25 E. To Long. 4.43 W. The Greatest Length Of France, Above 600 Miles, Is From E. To W. ...
I In Profane Literature
I. In Profane Literature : Initia Doctrine Solidioris, 1736, 8vo: Many Sub. Sequent Editions. A Work Not Only Valuable By Rea Son Of The Real Excellence Of The Matter, But More Particularly Deserving An Attentive Study, On Account Of The Purity Of The Latin, In Discussing Subjects Of Philosophy Known ...
Inanimate Objects 80
Inanimate Objects. 80. The Essential Parts Of The Name Of Egypt Seem To Be The Square And The Wheel, Signifying " Splendid Land." In Addition To These, Or Their Rudi Ments, The Enchorial Word Has At The Beginning A Character Which Generally Answers To An Arm Holding A Feather, Or ...
Inland Exchange
Inland Exchange. Suppose A Merchant, Residing In London, Orders His Agent In Glasgow To Purchase A Thousand Pounds Worth Of Cottons On His Account; Then, Although It Should Not Suit The Glasgow Merchant To Commis Sion Goods Of Equal Value From His London Corre Spondent, The Latter May Nevertheless Be ...
Kitchen Garden
Kitchen Garden. Under This Head, We May Give The First Place To The Improvement Which Has Taken Place In The Cul Ture Of Sea-cale ; And Of This We Shall Treat Pretty Fully. Sea-cale. The Cultivation Usually Recommended Consisted 'merely In Covering The Shoots, At The Approach Of Spring, To ...
Laws And Customs Imputing
Laws And Customs Imputing Bills And Notidc A Bill Of Exchange May Be Defined To Be An Open Letter Of Request Or Order From One Person, The Draw. Er, To Aner Person, The Drawee, Who Is Thereby Desired To Pay A Sum Of Money, Therein Specified, To A Third Person, ...
Ll D Ferguson Adam
Ferguson (adam, Ll. D.), A Distinguished Philosopher And Historian, Was Born At Logierait, In The Highlands Of Perthshire, On The 20th Of June 1723. His Father, The Reverend Adam Ferguson,•a Native Of The Neighbouring Parish Of Moulin, Had Been Minister Of Crathie And Braemar, -in Aberdeenshire, From 1700 To 1714; ...
Manufactures
Manufactures. Our Historical Notices Of French Manufactures Are Very Imperfect, Until Towards The Year 1600, When The Wars Of Religion Were Brought To A Close, And Peaceful Industry Received Encouragement From Henry Iv. And His Minister Sully. It Was Then That The Patronage Of Government Was Extended To The Manufacture ...
Ments
Ments. The Condition Of The Church And Clergy Forms A Moat Important Feature In The History And Present Si Tuation Of France. In Former Times, The Galilean Church, Without Desiring A Separation From The Holy See, Had Often Advanced A Claim To Independence, And Maintained Long And Animated Discussions, Or ...
Mines And Quarries
Mines And Quarries. Of Gold There Are Hardly Any Mines In France. Of Silver There Are Several In The Mountainous Districts. A Far More Important Metallic Treasure Is The Iron Ore Found In A Number Of The Moun Tainous Departments; In The East, In Lorraine And Champagne ; In The ...
Mountains
Mountains. The Sea, Being A Deduction From Mr Colebreok's Cal Culation, For The Same Mountain, Of 1268 Feet. The Following Table Exhibits The Results Of Mr Webb's Corrected Observations, Of No Less Than Twen Ty-seven Different Peaks Of The Himalaya Range, As Taken In The Progress Of His Survey Of ...
Must Naturally Be Accidental
Must Naturally Be Accidental And Infer Cicero Arid •eusebius Mehtion Phthah As The Same With Vulcan; And Eratosthenes, On The Authori Ty Of The Egyptian Priests, Interprets •••110ephtha, Phikphaestus, Or Loving Vulcan, Which In Coptic Would Be Exactly Expressed By Maimitham, As Maison Is Loving A Brother. Mr Akerblad Quotes, ...
National Income And Capital
National Income And Capital; Popula Tion. Of The Official Surveys Of The French Territory, By Far The Most Minute And Accurate Is The Cadastre, A Survey Which Became Indispensable, From The Time It Was Determined To Exchange The Taxes On Consump Tion For Taxes On Produce. A Return Of The ...
O Thoth
O. Thoth, Lytenth, Or Taoist, One Of The Most Ce Lebrated Of The Egyptian Deities, Is Sufficiently Iden Tified With Hermes Or Mercury, By The Testimony Of A Variety Of Authors. Diodorus Mentions Him As The Scribe, Or Secretary, And Privy Counsellor Of Osiris. He Is Generally Considered As The ...
One Europe
Europe, One Of The Great Divisions Of The Globe. On A First View, Europe Appears To Be Less Favoured By Nature Than The Other Quarters Of The Globe Over Which It Has Obtained So Great An Ascendancy. It Is Much Smaller In Extent ; Its Rocky And Mountainous Surface Does ...
Optics The
Optics. The Invention Of The Telescope And The Microscope, The Discoveries Made Concern Ing The Properties Of Light And The Laws Of Vision, Added To The Facility Of Applying Mathematical Reasoning As An Instrument Of Investigation, Had Long Given A Peculiar Interest To Optical Researches. The Experiments And Inquiries Of ...
Or 133 A Child
133. A Child, Or In Ant, Is Represented By A Figure Bent As If Sitting, Putting His Finger On His Lip. This Is Sufficiently Established By The Triple Inscrip Tion ; But It Is Still Further Confirmed By A Plate Of The Description De L'eopte (antiq. Ii. Pl. 86, F. ...
Or Edrisi
Edrisi, Or Almuss, The Most Eminent Of The Geographers Who Have Written In The Arabic Lan Guage. There Is No Individual Of Equal Eminence Over Whose Life There Bangs A Deeper Vell Of Mys Tery, The Various Parts Of It Affording Rather Sub Jects Of Oontrovers/4 Learned Than Of Precise ...