HERRINGS, a new mode of curing them, discovered by the Dutch, raised that country, and began to make Flanders decline, 47.
HISTORY, an appeal to the best mode of inquiry, 1.-- Dr. Robertson's complaint about the scarcity of materials, ib.-- Is confused previous to the conquests of Alexander the Great, 20.-- Commercial chart of, for 3005 years, 78.
HOLLAND compared to the Phoenicians, 46.-- New method of curing herrings raised it above Flanders. Great industry and economy, 48.-- Triumph over Spain at home, and Portugal in India, 62, 63, 64, 65.-- Increase in wealth till the end of the seventeenth century, 66.-- The best example of overcoming difficulties, ib.-- How it began to fall, 67.-- How it at last sunk before France, 68.
HORSES, there =sic= great consumption of food, 147, 157.
HOUSE rent. See Rent.
HUME, David, Esq. his errors respecting national debt, though a man of great abilities, 114.
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JAMES I. did not understand the true reason, why the Scotch were greater lovers of liberty in his time than the English, 280.
IDLENESS, incompatible with riches in a nation, in every case, but not so with an individual, 82.
IMPORTS of, England, chart of, 213.