HOAB 26 HOBART that empire. It rises near lat. 34° N., Ion. 98° E. Though broad and rapid, it is in many places so shallow as to be unfavorable for navigation. Its length is estimated at about 2,600 miles. HOAR, EBENEZER ROCKWOOD, an American jurist; born in Concord, Mass., Feb. 21, 1816; was judge of the Massa- chusetts Supreme Court in 1859-1869; United States attorney-general in 1869- 1870; joint high commissioner on the Treaty of Washington in 1871, and mem- ber of Congress in 1873-1875. He was the son of Samuel Hoar, a lawyer and member of Congress in 1835-1837, and his mother was a daughter of Roger Sherman. He died in Concord, Mass., Jan. 31, 1895. HOAR, GEORGE FRISBIE, an Amer- ican statesman; born in Concord, Mass., the crested touraco. The plumage is brown streaked with white, and the head has a movable crest. It is of the size of a pheasant, and has an enormous crop with a very small gizzard. HOBART, up to 1881 Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania; at the foot of Mount Wellington (4,166 feet), on the Derwent river; about 12 miles from its mouth. Among the public buildings are the government house, the government offices, the houses of Parliament, town hall, postoffice, museum, Episcopal and Roman Catholic cathedrals. There are several jam manufactories, breweries, flour mills, tanneries, a woolen factory, etc.; and in connection with the shipping interest first-class p.atent slips. Pop. (1917) 40,352. HOBART COLLEGE, an institution for higher education, at Geneva, N. Y. In 1919 the faculty numbered 26, and the students 95. The library contains about 60,000 volumes, and the annual income amounts to about $85,000. Pres- ident, M. Bartkett, D.D. HOBART, GARRET AUGUSTUS, a Vice-President of the United States; born in Long Branch, N. J., June 3, 1844; was graduated at Rutgers College in 1863, and admitted to the bar in GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR Aug. 29, 1826; a brother of Ebenezer R.; was a member of Congress in 1869- 1877; member of the Electoral Commis- sion in 1877; and was elected United States Senator in the same year, and in 1883, 1889, 1895, and 1901. Died at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 30, 1904. HOARSENESS, an affection of the throat causing harshness and roughness of voice, due to irregular and imperfect bringing together of the vocal cords, most frequently from swelling of the mucous membrane of the cords, and ex- cessive secretion of mucus in their neigh- borhood. HOATZIN, or HOACTZIN, Opisthoco- mus cHstdtus, a singular gregarious South American bird, sometimes called GARRET A. HOBART 1869; practiced in Paterson, N. J.; was a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1873-1874, and speaker during the latter year. Later he was chosen a member of the State Senate, of which he was president in 1881-1882. In Novem-
