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( Bot.) See SCOLOPENDRIUM. Harts'town, in Pennsylvania, a post-borough of Crawford co., 15 m. W.S.W. of Meadville. Hartsville, in Indiana , a post-town of Bartholomew co., about 50 m. S.E. of Indianapolis. Pop . (1890) 474. Hartsville, in Ma achusetts , a post-village of Berks hire co, about 125 m. W. by S. of Boston. Hartsville, in New York, a village of Onondaga co. -A township of Steuben co. Hartsville, in North Carolina , a P. O. of Wake co. Hartsville, in Pennsylvania , a post-village of Bucks co., about 108 m. E. of Harris burg. Hartsville, in South Carolina , a post-village of Darling ton co. Hartsville, or Hartsville Junction, in Ten ne ee, a village of Sumner co., 45 m. E.N.E. of Nashville. On Dec. 7th, 1862, a force of 2,000 National troops was surprised at this place by the Confederate Gen. Morgan, and were taken prisoners to Murfreesboro. Hart Village, in New York, a village of Dutche co., about 16 m. E.N.E. of Poughkeepsie. Hart'ville, in Mi ouri , a post-village, cap. of Wright co., about 105 m. S. by W. of Jefferson City. Hart'well, in Georgia , a post-village, cap. of Hart co., about 50 m. N.E. of Athens. Hart'wellville, in Michigan, a post-village of Shia was see co. Hartwellville, in Vermont, a post-village of Bennington co. Hartwick, in New York , a post-town and township of Otsego co., on the Susquehanna river, 35 m. S. by E of Utica. Pop . (1897) about 1,920. Hartwick Seminary, in New York , a post-village of Otsego co., about 6 m. below Coopers town. Hartz, (The.) [Ger. Harz , or Harzgebirge .] The most N.W. range of mountains in Germany, between Lat. 51° 35' and 51° 57' N., and Lon. 10° 10' and 11° 30′ E., separating the waters of the Weser from those of the Elbe. The Hartz Mountains run in a wavy and irregular course from Mansfeld in the E, and after traversing portions of Anhalt-Bernburg, Stolburg, Hohenstein, ., terminate on the W. at the town of Seesen, forming in their course an extreme length of 70 miles, and an average breadth of 28 miles; but comprising an extent of 1,350 sq. miles, and embracing in its sinuous line as many as forty towns of consideration, with numerous villages, and including a population of 65,000. This valuable, romantic, and most important range of Alpine scenery is divided nearly midway into two portions by a culmination, which, though not the loftiest in Germany, is the highest peak in this, its northern mountain-chain. This elevation, which divides the Hartz into east and west, or upper and lower Hartz, is called the Brocken , and rises to the altitude of 3,740 feet above the level of the sea; other parts reaching to 2,755 and 2,435 are here and there thrown up along its line, but the Brocken, in height and reputation, is the chief and highest top of the Hartz Mountains. The climate of the upper Hartz, or western part, is cold, and is the most elevated, extensive, and rich in minerals, all the rivers rising in this division emptying themselves into the Weser. The frost continues till the end of April, and reappears in October; and the warm weather only lasts 3 months. The Hartz are wooded everywhere, even to the summit of the Brocken, though, by the elevation, the giant firs of the low altitudes are here reduced into gnarled and stunted dwarfs. The hills of the upper division abound in berries, truffles, and mushrooms, in medicinal plants and roots, and what is known as Iceland mo ; and immense herds of cattle, goats, and horses graze upon its herbage. Oats are the only grain raised in any quantity. The lower or eastern Hartz is in every way superior in beauty of scenery and richne of soil; the woods abound in game and wild animals, from the roebuck and deer to the mountain-cat and ptarmigan. The climate is correspondingly milder, and the products of the soil more varied and abundant. The great wealth of the Hartz lies in its mineral productions. Gold was formerly procured in considerable quantities, and silver is still extracted, to some extent, from pure and compound ore. Iron, lead, zinc, copper, arsenic, and manganese are, however, its principal products, and these, with granite, porphyry, slate, marble, alabaster, and several earths, constitute the great and important wealth of the Hartz Mountains. But rich and commercially valuable as these seventy miles of wooded rock and mountain may be to the merchant and political economist, the Hartz po e es, in the imagination of the German people, and, indeed, of the civilized world, a greater wealth of romance and story than all its mineral and vegetable value twice told. There is an imperishable reputation, amounting to awe, a deathle tradition and romance, connected with the Hartz, that, when the bowels of its mountains have been rifled of their mineral wealth, will endure as long as a tree grows, or a blade of gra waves on its heathy top. The Hartz, and especially the Brocken, is united with the most cherished legends, superstitions, and histories of the German people; the vast caves and grottoes, the romantic Selkenthal, the Maiden's Leap, the Bath of Alexis, the wild Ockenthal, the horse-track of the Wild Huntsman, its profound and gloomy mines, its Spectre of the Brocken, and other wild traditions, clothe every mile of this Alpine forest with a fascinating and imperishable renown-a renown which the scientific explanations given to these phenomena in later times has as yet been incapable of obliterating. Har'um-scarum, a . [0. Fr. harer , harier , to stir up, and Eng. scare , to frighten suddenly.] Giddy; reckle ; wild; rash; headstrong; precipitate; as, a harum scarum fel! w. (Colloquially used.) Harus'pice, n. See ARUSPICE.