tained by manufacturers to their prejudice, ii. 435.
Greece, foreign trade prohibited in several of the ancient states of, iii. 37; military exercises, a part of general education, 51; soldiers not a distinct profession in, ibid.; course of education in the republics of, 154; the morals of the Greeks inferior to those of the Romans, ibid.; schools of the philosophers and rhetoricians, 156; law no science among the Greeks, 158; courts of justice, 159; the martial spirit of the people, how supported, 168.
Greek colonies, how distinguished from Roman colonies, ii. 300; rapid progress of these colonies, 311.
Greek language, how introduced as a part of university education, iii. 145; philosophy, the three great branches of, 146.
Ground rents, great variations of, according to situation, iii. 246–247; are a more proper subject of taxation than houses, 251.
Gum-senega, review of the regulations imposed on the trade for, ii. 437–438.
Gunpowder, great revolution effected in the art of war by the invention of, iii. 55–67; this invention favorable to the extension of civilization, ibid.
Gustavus Vasa, how enabled to establish the reformation in Sweden, iii. 198.
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Hanseatic League, causes that rendered it formidable, ii. 97; why no vestige remains of the wealth of the Hanse towns, 122.
Hamburg, agio of the bank of, explained, ii. 193.—Sources of the revenue of that city, iii. 214, 217; the inhabitants of, how taxed to the state, 261.
Hamburg Company, the, some account of, iii. 102.
Hearth money, why abolished in England, iii. 255.
Henry VIII. of England, prepares the way for the reformation by shutting out the authority of the Pope, iii. 199.
Herring buss bounty, remarks on, ii. 245; fraudulent claims of the bounty, 246; the boat fishery the most natural and profitable, 247–248; account of the British white-herring fishery, ibid.—Account of the busses fitted out in Scotland, the amount of their cargoes, and the bounties on them, iii. 404.
Hides, the produce of rude countries, commonly carried to a distant market, i. 341; price of, in England, three centuries ago, 345; salted hides inferior to fresh ones, 346–347; the price of, how affected by circumstances in cultivated and in uncultivated countries, 347.
Highlands of Scotland, interesting remarks on the population of the, i. 139.—Military character of the Highlanders, iii. 57.
Hindustan, the several classes of people there kept distinct, iii. 34; the natives of, how prevented from undertaking long sea voyages, 34–35.
Hobbes, Mr., remarks on his definition of wealth, i. 76.
Hogs, circumstances which render
