An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations · Adam Smith
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_Hanseatic league_, causes that rendered it formidable, 164. Why no vestige remains of the wealth of the Hans towns, 172. _Hamburgh_, agio of the bank of, explained, 195. Sources of the revenue of that city, 343, 344. The inhabitants of, how taxed to the state, 359. _Hamburgh company_, some account of, 308. _Hearth money_, why abolished in England, 356, 357. _Henry VIII._ of England, prepares the way for the Reformation, by shutting out the authority of the pope, 338. _Herring buss bounty_, remarks on, 211. Fraudulent claims of the bounty, ib. The boat fishery the most natural and profitable, 212. Account of the British white herring fishery, ib. Account of the busses fitted out in Scotland, the amount of their cargoes, and the bounties on them, 287, _Append._ _Hides_, the produce of rude countries commonly carried to a distant market, 97. Price of, in England three centuries ago, 98. Salted hides inferior to fresh ones, 98, 99. The price of, how affected by circumstances in cultivated and in uncultivated countries, ib. _Highlands of Scotland_, interesting remarks on the population of, 33. Military character of the Highlanders, 293. _Hobbes_, Mr. remarks on his definition of wealth, 13. _Hogs_, circumstances which render their flesh cheap or dear, 95.
_Holland_, observations on the riches, and trade of the republic of, 38. Not to follow some business unfashionable there, 40. Cause of the dearness of corn there, 80. Enjoys the greatest share in the carrying trade of Europe, 153. How the Dutch were excluded from being the carriers to Great Britain, 188. Is a country that prospers under the heaviest taxation, 189. Account of the bank of Amsterdam, 194, 195. This republic derives even its subsistence from foreign trade, 202, 203. Tax paid on houses there, 356. Account of the tax upon successions, 363. Stamp duties, 364. High amount of the taxes in, 370, 384. Its prosperity depends on the republican form of government, 385. _Honoraries_, from pupils to teachers in colleges tendency of, to quicken their diligence, 319. _Hose_, in the time of Edward IV., how made, 104. _Hospitality_, ancient, the cause and effect of, 169, 385. _House_, different acceptations of the term in England, and some other countries, 49. Houses considered as part of the national stock, 113. Houses produce no revenue, ib. The rent of, distinguished into two parts, 354. Operation of a tax upon house rent, payable by the tenant, ib. House rent, the best test of the tenant's circumstances, 355. Proper regulation of a tax on, ib. How taxed in Holland, 356. Hearth money, ib. Window tax, 357.
_Hudson's Bay company_, the nature of their establishment and trade, 312. Their profits not so high as has been reported, ib. _Hunters_, war, how supported by a nation of, 289. Cannot be very numerous, 290. No established administration of justice needful among them, 297. Age the sole foundation of rank and precedency among, ib. No considerable inequality of fortune or subordination to be found among them, 298. No hereditary honours in such a society, ib. _Husbandmen_, war, how supported by a nation of, 290. _Husbandry._ See _Agriculture_.
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