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42S] HAR of hats •, and pays, on importation, a duty ofpnly 1*. lOd. per lb, ; as sufficient quantities of it cannot be procured in Britain. Hares are of a gentle disposition, ptible of a kind of education, pnd, if taken very young, may easily be domesticated. They at- tain the age of about seven or eight years, and their proper food is grass, cabbages, and other plants. Sow-thistle, dandelion, and lettuce, are to them peculiarly ngri .able. These animals frequently inflict. great injury to trees, by barking them. Beside the hints already given (p. 141), for tire prevention of this mischief, we learn from M. tit Ehrenfels, a German writer, that trees may be effectually se- cured from their depredations, by anointing the bark in autumn, se- veral feet high, with hogs-lard, and sometimes also besmearing them with ox-gail. — Another re- medy, which appears to be more efficacious, and salutary rather than hurtful to the vegetation of the tree, consists in scattering occa- sionally small quantities of soot round the stem : this expedient has for many years been successfully practised in Scotland. In order to prevent hares from devouring the young cabbage or brocoli, and other succulent plants, it has been recommended to dip their roots in the following prepa- ration, before they are transplant- ed : Take the parings of old -'•, s* ak them in water, and | rve it till spring : then stir into the liquor such a quantity of day as will form a pulpy mass. — W< ■ bad no ei perienee of this n ; though it is affirmed, thai it not only secures the future plants from the attacks of hares, but its exhalations at c so obnoxious to HAR those depredators, that they will not frequent gardens where vege- tables thus prepared are growing. With regard to its physical pro- perties, the flesh of hare is more palatable in winter ; and those bred in elevated countries are most esteemed. Nor should this animal be chased till it drops ; for thus its flesh is rendered less digestible, and less wholesome : in other re- spects, its qualities are similar to those of Deer. Hare-bell, or Hare-squill. See Wild Hyacinth. Hare-strong. See Common or Sea Sulphur-wort. HA R R O GAT E - WAT E R S, are those chalybeate and sulphure- ous springs, which rise in the vil- lages of High and Low Harro- gate, in the county of York. Formerly, the chalybeate water only was used internally, and the sulphureous spring was exclusively employed as an external remedy. At present, however, considerable quantities of the latter are drunk for various complaints. The sulphureous water is ob- tained from four springs, that rise apparently from a large bog situat- ed at a small distance from the wells ; and which is composed of decayed vegetable matter, forming a black, half-fluid, fetid mass, four or five feet thick, and supported by a bed of clay and gravel. When first drawn, the Harro- gate water is transparent, and emits a lew air-bubbles. It possesses a strongly fetid sulphureous smell, similar to that of bilge- water ; and is of a bitter, nauseous, and strong- ly saline taste. After being ex- pi ised for si eral hours to the open air, it becomes turbid, assumes a greenish colour, loses its sulphure- ous smell,, and deposits sulphur at