Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . notes, however, are those of Shemii, Sururi,Sudi. The Dlvaii was first collected by SaidKasim Anvari, after the death of the poet. Litho-graphed and planted editions of H. have been i)ub-lished at Calcutta (1790 and 1826), at Bombay (1828—1850), at Cawnpore (1831), Bulak (1834 and 1840),Constantinople (1841), &c. A very valuable editionby H. Brockhaus is now in the course of pub-lication at Leipsic. Of translations in Europeantongues, we may mention those of Rewitzki in Latin(Vienna, 1771); Ilichardson, Jones, Ouseley, Hindley,Eous
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . notes, however, are those of Shemii, Sururi,Sudi. The Dlvaii was first collected by SaidKasim Anvari, after the death of the poet. Litho-graphed and planted editions of H. have been i)ub-lished at Calcutta (1790 and 1826), at Bombay (1828—1850), at Cawnpore (1831), Bulak (1834 and 1840),Constantinople (1841), &c. A very valuable editionby H. Brockhaus is now in the course of pub-lication at Leipsic. Of translations in Europeantongues, we may mention those of Rewitzki in Latin(Vienna, 1771); Ilichardson, Jones, Ouseley, Hindley,Eousseau, in English; and by Hammer-PurgstaUand Daumer, in German. HAG (Myxine or Gaslrobranchus], a genns of carti-laginous fishes, allied to lampreys, and with themranked among Dennopterous Fishes by Owen. Thefishes of this genus are of low organisation, andseem to connect fishes with cephalopodous vertebral column is reduced to a mere flexil)lecartilaginous tube, nor are there any other shape resembles that of an eel or worm, and. Hag. Linnceus placed these animals among the mouth is formed by a mere membranous ring,with a single tooth on its upper part, whilst thetongue is furnished -with two rows of strong teeth,and also performs the office of a piston in the iise ofthe month as a sucker. Around the mouth areeight barbides or cirrhi, which have been regardedas analogous to the tentacles of the cuttle-fish, andare apparently the principal special organs of sensa-tion. There are no eyes. There are six gill-bagson each side, receiving streams of water from thegiUlet {cesophaguti) by as many tubes, the waterbeing admitted to the gullet by an aperture situatedrather on the left side, and carried off by a canalwhich opens about the end of the first third of thelength. The tail is surroimded by a narrow skin is smooth and very unctuous.—One species,the Glutinous Hag (M. gliUbiosa or G. ccecus), isfound in the British seas, and is more co
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