4. It is ufed poetically of many noifes loud and horrid. * HOWSOEVER. adv. (how and Joever.] 1. In what manner foever. See HOWEVER.-Bero. fus, who, after Mofes, was one of the most ancient, bowfoever he hath been fince corrupted, doth in the substance of all agree. Raleigh's Hiftory. 2. Although. The man doth fear God, bowforver it seems not in him. Shak. end; which would, however, be a very ufeful inquiry. Swift. 4. To fome of these meanings this word may be commonly reduced, but its power is fometimes almoft evanefcent. *HOWILEMUR, a town of Perfia. HOWITZ, or a kind of mortar, mounted HOWITZER, upon a field-carriage like a gun. The difference between a mortar and a howitz is, that the trunnions of the firft are at the end, and at the middle in the laft. The invention of howitzes is of much later date than mortars, and had their origin from them. The conftructions of howitzes are as various and uncertain as thofe of mortars, excepting the chambers, which are all cylindric. They are diftinguifhed by the diameter of the bore; for inftance, aten inch howitz is the diameter of that which is ro inches; and fo of the smaller ones. HOWL. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. The cry of a wolf or dog. Murther, Alarmed by his fentinel the wolf, Whofe hol's his watch. Shakefp. Macbeth. -Thefe and the like rumours are no more than the laft bowls of a dog diffected alive. 2. The cry of a human being in horrour. She raves, the runs with a distracted pace, And fills with horrid bowls the public place. Dryden's En. *To Howl. v. n. [huglen, Dutch, ululo, Lat.] 1. To cry as a wolf or dog. Methought a legion of foul fiendsEnviron'd me, and boruled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that with the very noise I trembling wak'd. Shakespeare's Richard III. If wolves had at thy gate how d that ftern time, Thou should'st have said, Go, porter, turn the key. Shakespeare. He found him in a desert land, and in the wafte bowling wilderness. Deuter. xxxii. 10. As when a fort of wolves infeft the night, With their wild bowlings at fair Cynthia's light. Waller. Hard as his native rocks, cold as his fword, Fierce as the wolves that bowl'daround his birth; He hates the tyrant, and the fuppliant fcorns. Smith. 2. To utter cries in diftrefs.-Therefore will I bowl, and cry out for all Moab. Jer. xlviij. The damned use that word in hell, Howling's attend it. Shakefp. Romeo and Juliet. Each new morn New widows bowl, new orphans cry, new for That would be bowl'd out in the defert air, Where bearing fhould not catch them. Shak. The noife grows louder ftill; Rattling of armour, trumpets, drums, and ata balles; And fometimes peals of fhouts that rend the heav'ns, Like victory; then groans again, and howlings, Like thofe of vanquish❜d men. Dryden. 3. To feek with a belluine cry or tone.Peace, monster, peace! Go tell thy horrid tale To favages, and bowl it out in deferts! Philips. HOWTH, a promontory of Ireland, which forms the N. entrance of the bay of Dublin, ha. ving a fmall village about 7 miles NE. of that city. It belongs to the family of the E. of Howth, who obtained their firname of St Lawrence from a victory gained over the Irish on St Lawrence's day 1177, their former name being Triftram; and it has continued in poffeffion of the family above 700 years. The thores off this hill are rocky and pre cipitous, affording, however, a few harbours for fmall craft. It was formerly called Ben-hedar, i. e. the Birds promontory; and celebrated for having Dun Criomthan, or the royal palace of Criomthan, erected on it, he having been chief or king of that diftrict, and memorable for making feveral fuccefsful defcents on the coaft of Britain against the Romans in the time of Agricola. Howth, though now ftript of trees, was formerly covered with venerable oaks, and was a feat of the Druids; one of their altars ftill remains in a fequentered valley on the E. fide of the hill. The manfion-houfe is built in form of a castle, and was probably erected by Sir Armoricus Triftram. Near the house ftands the family chapel, and on the W. Thore are the ruins of St Mary's church, with fome ancient monuments of lord Howth's ancestors. W. of Howth houfe are the ruins of St Fenton's church. Lon. 6. 22. W. Lat. 53.21. N. To HOX. v. a. [from bog, Saxon.] Tohough; to ham-ftring. Thou art a coward, Which boxes honefty behind, reftraining From courfe required. Shakefp. Winter's Tale. -Lodronius, perceiving the old foldier's meaning, alighted, and with his fword boxed his horfe, faying aloud, This day, valiant foldiers, fhall you have me both your general and fellow-foldier, fighting on foot as one of yourselves. Knalles. HOXTER, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, 3 miles NW. of Carvey. In 1634, it was ftormed by the imperialifts, and the inhabitants maffacred. In 1646, it was taken by the Swedes. (1.)* HOY. . f. [hou, old French.] A large boat fometimes with one deck. He fent to Germany, ftrange aid to rear; From whence eftfoons arrived here three hoys Of Saxons, whom he for his fafety employs. Fairy Queen. -To define a barge and boy, which are between a boat and a fhip, is hard. Watt's Logick (2.) A Hoy is a fmall veffel, chiefly used in coafting or carrying goods to or from a fhip, in a road or bay, where the ordinary lighters cannot be managed with fafety or convenience. It is difficult to defcribe, precifely, the marks of diftinction between this veffel and fome others of the fame fize, which are rigged in the fame manner; because what is called a boy in one place, is na med med a floop or fmack in another; and even the people who navigate these veilels have, upon examination, very vague ideas of the marks by which they are diftinguished. In Holland, the hoy has two mafts; in England, it has but one, where the main fail is fometimes extended by a boom, and fometimes without it. Upon the whole, it may be defined a small vessel, ufually rigged as a floop, and employed for carrying paffengers and luggage from one place to another, on the fea-coaft. (3.) Hoy, an island of Scotland, one of the larger Orkney isles. It is about 10 miles long, and above 3 broad; and is separated from Pomona by a channel 24 miles wide. Lon. o. 5. E. of Edin. Lat. 58. 43. N. (4.) Hoy, a parish of Scotland, in Orkney, united to Græmfay. See GREMSAY. Hoy is a hilly parish, about 10 miles long from NW. to SE. and 6 broad. HOY-HEAD is very steep, and about a mile in height. It ferves as a fea-mark. The foil is light, but wet and spongy; the climate is healthful, and the natives are long lived. One died some years ago, aged 100. About 1200 fheep run wild upon the mountains. The population in 1795, ftated by the Rev. Robert Sands, in his report to Sir J. Sinclair, was 250; that of both parishes 410; the decreafe, within 40 years, was 270. There is a large rock, called ironically the Dwarf Stone, 32 feet long, 164 broad, and feet 5 inches high; hollowed within; and divided into 3 apartments, one containing a bed, 5 feet 8 inches long, and 2 feet broad, and the mid room a fire place, with a vent for the smoke. At the foot of the rocks is a very diftinct echo, which repeats every fyllable fpoken for fome minutes. There is alfo a rich lead and filver mine in the parish, which contains 46 oz. of filver in the ton of ore. HOYAM, a town of China, in Chen-fi. HOYER, a town of Denmark, in Slefwick. HOYM, a town of Saxony, in Anhalt. HOZARDARA, a mountain of Perfia. HOZOW, a town of Poland, in Kiow, HRADECK, 2 towns in Bohemia. HRADISCH, a town of Moravia, on an island in the Morava, 30 miles E. of Brinn, and 30 SE. of Olmutz. Lon. 17. 53. E. Lat. 49. o. N. HROZOW, a town in Lithuania. in the S. Pacific Ocean, about 7 or 8 leagues in compafs. Its furface is hilly and uneven, and it has a fafe and convenient harbour. It was first difcovered by captain Cook in 1769. It is divi ded by a deep inlet into two peninfulas connected by an ifthmus, which is entirely overflowed at high water. From the appearance of its hills, it may be concluded that the country has at fome former period been the feat of a volcano. The fummit of one of them had much the appearance of a crater; a blackish fpongy earth was feen upon one of its fides, which feemed to be lava; and the rocks and clay everywhere had a burnt appearance. The island is plentifully supplied with water by many rivulets which defcend from the mountains. The inhabitants are nearly as fair as Europeans, and bolder than the inhabitants of the other Society Illands. They are stout and large made, some of the tallest being 6 feet 3 inches in height; they are extremely indolent, and feem to have as little curiofity as fear. The dogs are in great favour with all their women," who could not have careffed them (fays Mr Forster) with a more ridiculous affection if they had been European ladies of fashion." Here was feen a middle-aged woman whofe breafts were full of milk, offering them to a little puppy who had been trained up to fuck them. The fight difgufted thofe who faw it fo much, that they could not forbear expreffing their diflike to it; but the wo man fmiled, and told them that he allowed young pigs to do the fame. It appeared afterwards that this woman had lost her child. Some of the gentlemen were prefent at a dramatic entertainment on this ifland: the piece reprefented a girl running away from her parents; and feemed to be levelled at a female paflenger, who had come in captain Cook's fhip from Otaheite, and who happened to be prefent at the reprefentation. It made fuch an impreffion on the girl, that the gentlemen could fearce prevail upon her to fee the piece out, or to refrain from tears while it was acting. It conclu ded with the reception fhe was fuppofed to meet with from her friends, which was made out not to be a very agreeable one.-Thefe people introduce extempore pieces upon occafion; and it is most probable that this was meant as a fatire upon the girl above mentioned, and to discourage others from acting in the fame manner. Lon. 151. 1. W. Lat. 16. 44. S. HUBBERSTON, a town of Pembrokeshire, on a creek of Milford Haven; the station of the packet to Waterford in Ireland. * HUBBUB. n. f. [I know not the etymology, unless it be from up, up, or hobnob.] A tumult; a riot.-People pursued the bufinefs with all con tempt of the government; and in the bubbub of the first day there appeared nobody of name or reckoning, but the actors were really of the dregs of the people. Clarendon. An univerfal hubbub wild' And dogs howl when the thines in water. 25 miles NE. of Manchester, 24 SW. of York, and 189 NW. of London. * HÚDDLE. n. f. [from the verb.] Crowd; tumult; confufion; with obfcurity.-That the Ariftotelian philofophy is a huddle of words and terms infignificant, has been the cenfure of the wifeft. Glanville HUBELY, a town of Indoftan, in Sanore. (1.) HUBER, Ulric, one of the greatest civilians in the 17th century, was born at Dockum in 1636. He became profeffor of law at Franeker; and wrote, 1. A treatise De jure civitatis: 2. Jurifprudentia Frifica: 3. Specimen philofophiae civilis: 4. Inftitutiones hifloria civilis: 5. Differtationes de genuina ætate Affyriorum et regno Medorum; and Your carrying business in a buddle, other works which are efteemed. He died in 1694. Has forc'd our rulers to new model. Hudibras. (2) HUBER, Zacharias, the fon of the prece- -Nature doth nothing in a huddle. L'Etrange. ding, was born at Franeker in 1669, and fucceed--The understanding fees nothing diftinctly in ed his father in his profefforfhip. He published, 1. De vero fenfu legis IXD. de lege Pompeia; 4to. Differtationum libri tres, &c. He died in 1732. HUBERT, ST, a town of the French republic, in the dep. of Forets, and late prov. of Luxemburg; 20 miles NE. of Bouillon, and 150 NE. of Paris. Lon. 5. 12. E. Lat. 50. o. N. HUBERTSBERG, a town of Saxony, famous for a peace made between the kings of Pruffia and Poland, and the emprefs queen; as well as for a magnificent feat built by Auguftus III. It is 3 miles NE. of Mutchen.. HUBNER, John, a learned geographer of Germany; who taught geography at Leipfic and Hamburg with extraordinary reputation; and died at Hamburg in 1732, aged 63. His principal works are, 1. Bibliotheca Hiflorica Hamburgenfis : 2. Mufæum Geographicum, printed at Bafil in 1746, in 6 vols. 12mo. HUCKABACK. n. A kind of linen on which the figures are raised. * HUCKLABACKED. adj. [bocker, German, a bunch, and back.] Crooked in the fhoulders. *HUCKLEBONE. n. f. [from bucken, Dutch, to fit down.] The hipbone. things remote and in a buddle. Locke.-Several merry anfwers were made to my question, which entertained us 'till bed time, and filled my mind with a huddle of ideas. Addifon. * (1.) To HUDDLE. v. a. (probably from bord.] 1. To drefs up clofe fo as not to be discovered; to mobble. 2. To put on carlessly in a hurry. At twelve fhe rose with much ado; Her clothes were huddľ'd on by two. Now all in hafte they huddle on Their goods, their cloaks, and get them gone. Prior. Sevift. 3. To cover up in hafte. 4. To perform in a hur The lab'ring husband in his house restrain, 3. To throw together in confufion.-Our advería- (2.) * To HUDDLE. v. n. To come in a crowd or hurry.→ manner. Bacon. 17% HUCKSTER. v. n. [from the noun.] To deal in petty bargains. They must pay a fhil. Glance an eye of pity on his loffes, ling, for changing their piece into filver, to fome That have of late fo buddled on his back, buckfering fellow who follows that trade. Swift. Enough to prefs a royal merchant down. Śhak. HUCKSTER. Yn..bock, Germ. a ped--Brown answered after his blunt and buddling HUCKSTERER.) lar; hockster, a fhe-pedlar.] 1. One who fells goods by retail, or in fmall quantities; a pedlar.-There cannot be a more ignominious trade than the being bucksters to fuch vile merchandise. Government of the Tongue. ---God deliver the world from fuch guides, or rather fuch bucksters of fouls, the very fhame of religion. South. Should thy fhoe wrench afide, down, down And overturn the fcolding buckfler's stall, Now the ape wanted his buckster man. Hubberd's Tale. HUCQUELIERS, a town of France, in the dep. of the Straits of Calais, 9 miles NE. of Montreuil. HUDDERSFIELD, a town of Yorkshire, in the W, riding, famous for its cloth manufacture; Thyrfis, whofe artful ftrains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal, And sweeten'd every muskrose of the dale. Mit. Their eyes are more imperfect than others; for they will run against things, and, buddling forwards, fall from high places. Brown's Vulg. Err. HUDE, a river of Durham, which runs into the Tees, 7 miles above Barnard Caftle. HUDEMUCHLIN, a town of Lunenburg Zell, 19 miles W. of Zell, and 20 N. of Hanover. HUDICKSWALL, a fea-port town of Sweden, in Helfingia. It was burnt in 1670; and in 1721 by the Ruffians. Lon. 18. 36. E. Lat. 61. 48. N. HUDISMENIL, a town of France, in the dep. of the Channel; 5 miles E. of Granville. HUDSJERA, a town of Arabia, in Yemen. (1.) HUDSON, Henry, an eminent English na. vigator, who, about the beginning of the 17th century, undertook to find out a NE. or NW. paflage to Japan and China. For this purpose he was 3 times fitted out: he returned twice unfuccefsful: but in the laft voyage in 1610, being perfuaded that the great bay to which his name has been fince given, muft lead to the paffage he fought, he wintered there to profecute his difco very very in the fpring. But their hardships and dif- (4.) HUDSON, a flourishing town of the United States, in Columbia county, in New York, which was only begun to be built in 1783. It is feated on the E. fide of HUDSON'S RIVER, on an eminence, 30 miles S. of Albany, and 130 N. of New York. It had 2391 citizens in 1790, and 193 llaves. Lon. 73. 40. W. Lat. 42. 20. N. HUDSONIA, in botany; a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the dodecandria clafs of plants. There is no corolla; the calyx is pentaphyllous and tubular; there are 15 ftamina; the capfule is unilocular, trivalvular, and trifpermous. (1.) HUDSON'S BAY, a large bay of North America, lying between 51o and 69° of lat. N. difcovered in 1610 by Henry Hudfon. See HUDSON, Nor. This intrepid mariner, in fearching after a NW. paffage to the South feas, discovered three ftraits, through which he hoped to find out a new way to Afia by America. He had made two voyages before on the fame adventure; the firft in 1607, and the second in 1608. In his third and laft, in 1610, he entered the ftraits that lead into this new Mediterranean, the bay known by his name; coafted a great part of it; and penetrated to 89° 30', into the heart of the frozen zone. His ardour for the discovery not being abated by the difficulties he struggled with in this empire of winter, and world of froft and fnow, he ftaid here until the enfuing spring, and prepared in the beginning of 1611 to purfue his discoveries; but his crew, who fuffered equal hardships, without the fame fpirit to fupport them, mutinied, feized upon him and seven of those who were moft faithful to him, and committed them to the fury of the icy feas in an open boat. Hudfon and his companions were either fwallowed up by the waves, or gaining the inhofpitable coaft were deftroyed by the favages; but the fhip and the reft of the men returned home. Other attempts towards a discovery were made in 1612 and 1667; and a patent for planting the country, with a charter for a company, was obtained in 1670. In 1746 Captain Ellis wintered as far N. as 57 30. Captain Chriftopher attempted farther difcoveries in 1761. But befides these, and the late voyages, which fatisfy us that we must not look for a paffage on this fide of Lat. 67° N. we are indebted to the Hudfon's Bay Company for a journey by land; which throws much additional light on this mat ter, by affording what may be called demonftra tion, how much farther, at leaft in fome parts of their voyage, fhips must go, before they can pafs from one fide of America to the other. The nor thern Indians, who come down to the company's factories to trade, had brought to the knowledge of our people a river, which, on account of much copper being found near it, had obtained the name of the Copper-mine river. The company being defirous of examining into this matter with precifion, directed Mr Hearne, a young gentleman in their fervice, and who having been brought up for the navy, and served in the German war, was well qualified for the purpose, to proceed over land, under the convoy of thofe Indians, for that river, which he had orders to furvey, if poffible, quite down to its exit into the fea; to make obfervations for fixing the latitudes and longitudes; and to bring home maps and drawings both of it and the countries through which he should pafs. Ac cordingly Mr Hearne fet out from Prince of Wales's Fort, on Churchill river, lat. 58° 47' north, and lon. 94° 7' weft from Greenwich, on the 7th Dec. 1770. On the 13th June he reached Copper-mine river, and found it all the way, even to its exit into the fea, encumbered with fhoals and falls, and running into it over a dry flat of the fhore, the tide being then out, which feemed by the edges of the ice to rife about 12 or 14 feet. This rife, on account of the falls, will carry it but a very small way within the river's mouth, fo that the water in it had not the least brackish taste. Mr Hearne was nevertheless sure of the place it runs into being the fea, or a branch of it, by the quan tity of whalebone and feal skins which the Ef quimaux had at their tents, and alfo by the num ber of feals which he faw upon the ice. The fea at the river's mouth was full of islands and shoals as far as he could fee by the affiftance of a pocket telescope; and the ice was not yet (July 17th) broken up, but thawed away only for about three quarters of a mile from the fhore, and for a little way round the islands and fhoals which lay off the river's mouth. But he had the most extenfive view of the fea when he was about 8 miles up the river; from which station the extreme part of it bore W. by W. and NE. By the time Mr Hearne had finished his furvey of the river, which was about A. M. on the 18th, there came on a very thick fog and drizzling rain; and as he had found the river and fea in every respect un. likely to be of any utility, he thought it unneces fary to wait for fair weather to determine the latitude more exactly by obfervation; but by the extraordinary care he took in obferving the courses and diftances, walking from Congecathawhachaga, where he had two very good obfervations, he thinks the latitude may be depended on within 20' at the utmoft. It appears from the map which Mr Hearne constructed of this fingular journey, that the mouth of the Copper-mine river lies in lat. 72° N. and lon. 25° W. from Churchill river; that is, about 119° W. of Greenwich. Mr Hearne's journey back from the Copper-mine river to Churchill lafted till June 30th, 1772; fo that he was abfent almost a year and 7 months. The unRrr2 paralleled States, which rifes E. of Lake Ontario, and running by Albany, and on the back of the S. part of New England through the NE. part of New York, falls into the Atlantic Ocean, 10 miles S. of New York. It is navigable by a floop of 80 tons to Albany, 166 miles above New York. Its whole course is above 250 miles. HUDSON'S STRAITS, the narrow fea between the Atlantic Ocean and Hudfon's Bay, N. of Labrador.-See HUDSON'S BAY, § 1. (1.) *HUE. n. f. [hiewe, Sax.] 1. Colour; die. For never in that land Face of fair lady the before did view, bue. To add another bue unto the rainbow, Is wafteful and ridiculous excefs. Spenfer. Shak. Flow'rs of all hue, and without thorn the rofe. Milton. To whom the angel, with a smile that glow'd Celestial rofy red, love's proper bue, Anfwered. Milton's Paradise Loft. Your's is much of the camelion hue, To change the die with diflant view. Dryden. 2.[Huée, French.] A clamour; a legal purfuit; an alarm given to the country. It is commonly join. ed with cry.-Hue and cry, villain, go! Affift me, knight, I am undone: fly, run, bue and erg! villain, I am undone. Shakespeare.-Immediately comes a hue and cry after a gang of thieves, that had taken a parfe upon the road. L'Eftrange. paralleled hardships he fuffered, and the effential fervice he performed, met with a fuitable reward from his mafters, and he was made governor of Prince of Wales's Fort on Churchill river. But though the adventurers failed in the original purpofe for which they navigated this bay, their project has been of great advantage to this country. See COMPANY, IV.i; N° 3. The country ly ing round Hudfon's Bay is called New Britain, or the country of the Efquimaux; comprehending LABRADOR, now N. and S. Wales. Se BRITAIN, N° III.; and LABRADOR. The entrance of the bay from the ocean, after leaving to the N. Cape Farewell and Davis's Straits, is between Refolution ifles on the N. and Button's ifles on the Labrador coaft to the S. forming the eaftern extremity of HUDSON'S STRAITS. The coafts are very high, rocky, and rugged at top; in fome places precipitous, but fometimes exhibit large beaches. The ifles of Salisbury, Nottingham, and Digges, are alfo very lofty and naked. The depth of water in the middle of the bay is 140 fathoms. From Cape Churchill to the S. end of the bay are regular foundings; near the fhore fhallow, with muddy or fandy bottom. To the N. of Churchill the foundings are irregular, the bottom rocky, and in fome parts the rocks appear above the furface at low water. From Moofe river, or the bottom of the bay, to Cape Churchill, the land is flat, marthy, and wooded with pines, birch, larch, and willows. From Cape Churchill to Wager's Water the coafts are all high and rocky to the very fea, and woodless, except the mouths of Pockerekesko and Seal rivers. The hills on their back are naked, nor are there any trees for a great distance inland. The mouths of all the rivers are filled with fhoals, except that of Churchill, in which the largeft fhips may lie; but ten miles higher, the channel is obftructed with fand banks; and all the rivers, as they have been navigated, are full of rapids and cataracts from 10 to 60 feet perpendicular. Down these rivers the Indian traders find a quick paffage; but their return is a labour of many months. As far inland as the company have fettlements, which is 600 miles to the W. at a place called HUDSON'S HOUSE, lat. 53°, lon. 106. 27. from London, is flat coun. try; nor is it known how far to the eastward the great chain feen by our navigators from the Pacific Ocean branches off. The eaftern boundary of the bay is Terra di Labrador; the northern part has a straight coaft facing the bay, guarded with ifles innumerable. A vaft bay, called the Archiwinnipy Sea, lies within it, and opens into Hudfon's Bay by means of Gulph Hazard, through which the Beluga whales dart in great numbers. Here the company had a fettlement for the fake of the fishery, and for trading with the Efquimaux; but deferted it as unprofitable about 1758 or 1459. For the climate, animals, and pheno. mena of the country adjacent to ludion's Bay, fee LABRADOR. (3.) HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. See COMPANY, IV. i; N° 3. HUDSON'S HOUSE. See HUDSON'S BAY, § r. HUDSON'S POINT, á cape of Antigua, on the SW. coaft. Lon. 61. 23. W. Lat. 17. 10. N. HUDSON'S RIVER, a large river of the United If you should hifs, he fwears he'll hits as high; And, like a culprit, join the bue and cry. Addif. The bue and cry went after Jack, to apprehend him dead or alive, wherever he could be found. Arbuthnot's John Bull. HUE AND CRY, in law, (§ 1, def. 2.) the pur fuit of a perfon who has committed felony on the highway. Of this cuftom, which is of British origin, the following deduction is given by Mr Whitaker. "When it was requifite for the Britons to call out their warriors into the field, they ufed a method that was particularly marked by its expeditioufhefs and decifivenefs, and remains partially among us to this moment. They raised a cry, which was immediately caught up by others, and in an inftant tranfmitted from mouth to mouth through all the region. And, as the notice paffed along, the warriors fnatched their arms, and hurried away to the rendezvous. We have a remarkable defcription of the fact in Cæfar, and there fee the alarm propagated in 16 or 17 hours through 160 miles in a line. And the fame practice has been retained by the highlanders to cur own time." See CRANTARA and CROISHTARICH. "In the rebellion of 1745, it was fent by an unknown hand through the region of Breadalbane; and, flying as expeditioufly as the Gallic fignal in Cæfar, traverfed a tract of 32 miles in 3 hours. This quick method of giving a diffusive alarm is even preferved among ourselves to the prefent day; but is applied, as it feems from Cæfar's account above to have been equally applied among the Celta, to the better purposes of civil polityThe butefium and clamour of our laws, and the hue and cry of our own times, is a well known and powerful procefs for spreading the notice and continuing the purfuit of any fugitive felons. The |