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At once he renounced hunting and all worldly 

 pleasures, and became after his canonisation the 

 patron saint of hunters. His aid is especially effi- 

 cacious for persons bitten by mad dogs and those 

 possessed with devils. See H. Gaidoz, La Rage 

 et St Hubert ( 1887 ). 



Hubertlisblirg, formerly a royal hunting-seat 

 of Saxony, 25 miles E. by S. from Leipzig, built 

 in 1721 by Prince Frederick Augustus, afterwards 

 King Augustus III. of Poland. It was much in- 

 jured during the Seven Years' War; and there 

 on 15th February 1763 was signed the treaty by 

 which that war was ended. Since 1840 the build- 

 ings have served as a prison, a hospital, an asylum 

 for the insane, and a refuge for idiot children. 



II II III i. a town of Dhanvar in the presidency of 

 Bombay, stands on a good road leading to Karwar 

 on the Malabar coast, 102 miles to the south-west. 

 It contains ( 1891 ) 52,595 inhabitants, and is one of 

 the principal cotton-marts in that section of India. 

 II ii burr. RUDOLF JULIUS BENNO, German 

 painter, was born at Oels, in Silesia, 27th January 

 1806. He studied at Dusseldorf, to which school 

 of painting he belongs. In 1841 he was appointed 

 professor of Painting in the academy at Dresden, 

 and was director of the picture-gallery from 1871 to 

 1882, in which year he died, 7th November, at 

 Loschwitz, near Dresden. Among his pictures are 

 'Job and his Friends,' 'Charles V. in San Yuste,' 

 ' Frederick the Great in Sansouci,' ' The Golden 

 Age,' and 'The Dispute between Luther and Dr 

 Eck.' He also designed glass paintings, including 

 some for the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral. 



Hue, EVARISTE REGIS, French missionary and 

 traveller, was born at Toulouse, August 1, 1813. 

 Almost immediately after his ordination he joined 

 in 1839 the missionary expedition of his order, 

 the Lazarist Fathers, to China. In 1844 Hue, in 

 company with Pere Gabet and a single native con- 

 vert, set out with the intention of penetrating to 

 the unknown land of Tibet, beyond the terrible 

 desert of Gobi. But it was not until January 1846 

 that they succeeded in reaching Lhassa, the capital 

 of Tibet, and the residence of the Dalai Lama. 

 And scarcely had they settled in that city and 

 started a mission, when an order for their immedi- 

 ate expulsion from the country was obtained by the 

 Chinese resident in Lhassa. They were conveyed 

 back to Canton. Hue's health having completely 

 broken down, he returned to France in 1852. His 

 Asiatic experiences are recorded in Souvenirs (fun 

 Voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet, et la Chine 

 pendant les Annees 1844-46 (2 vols. Paris, 1850; 

 Eng. trans, by W. Hazlitt, 1851-52), and L' Empire 

 Chinois (2 vols. 1854; Eng. trans. 1855). He also 

 wrote Le Christianisme en Chine (4 vols. 1857-58; 

 Eng. trans. 1857-58). The strangeness of some 

 of the incidents recorded in the book on Tibet 

 provoked some degree of incredulity ; but the 

 testimony of later travellers in the same regions 

 fully corroborates the truth of Hue's narrative. 

 He died at Paris in March 1860. 



Huckaback* a coarse kind of linen cloth, 

 figured somewhat like damask, and usually em- 

 ployed for table-cloths and towelling. 

 Huckleberry. See WHORTLEBERRY. 

 Huddersfield, a ' clothing town ' in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire, a municipal and county 

 borough, 26 miles NE. of Manchester, 15 S. of 

 Bradford, 17 SW. of Leeds, and 189 NNW. of 

 London. Well built of stone and regular, it occu- 

 pies a considerable extent of high ground, sloping 

 down to the left bank of the Colne, which here 

 receives the Holme ; and it owes its rapid extension 

 to its situation in a rich coal-district, to its abund- 

 ant water-power, and to its transit facilities by 



rail and canal. Among the chief edifices are the 

 circular cloth-hall (1768-80); the railway station 

 (1848), with a marble statue of Peel (1875) before 

 it; the classical town-hall (1880); the market- 

 hall (1880); and the infirmary (1831-74). The 

 Mechanics' Hall ( 1848 ) developed into the Technical 

 School ( 1883). The first parish church of Hudders- 

 field was built before 1110, rebuilt in Tudor 

 times, and again ( unhappily before the revival 

 of architecture) in 1835. St John's (1853) was 

 designed by Butterfield, and St Thomas' (1859) by 

 Sir G. G. Scott. The Beaumont Park, 21 acres in 

 area, was opened by the Duke of Albany in 1883, 

 and there also is Greenhead Park of 26 acres. 

 Huddersfield is the chief seat in the north of Eng- 

 land of what is called the ' fancy trade,' and every 

 description of plain woollen goods is also manu- 

 factured ; whilst other industries are cotton and 

 silk spinning, iron-founding, machine-making, &c. 

 Roman remains have been found here ; but Hud- 

 dersfield has no history to speak of. In 1750 Bishop 

 Pococke described it as ' a little town.' It was 

 enfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832, and made 

 a municipal borough in 1868, the boundary having 

 been greatly extended the year before. Pop. 

 ( 1861 ) 34,877 ; ( 1871 ) 74,358 ; ( 1881 ) 86,502 ; ( 1891 ) 

 95,422. 



Hudson, a river in New York, and one of the 

 most beautiful and important in America. It rises 

 in the Adirondack Mountains, 4326 feet above the 

 level of the sea, its head-streams the outlets of many 

 mountain-lakes. At Glen's Falls it has a fall of 50 

 feet, and soon after, taking a southerly course, runs 

 nearly in a straight line to its mouth, at New York 

 city. It is tidal up to Troy, 151 miles from its 

 mouth, and magnificent steamboats ply daily be- 

 tween New York and Albany. Below Newburg, 

 60 miles from New York, the river enters the high- 

 lands, which rise abruptly from the water to the 

 height of 1600 feet. Here historical associations 

 add to the interest of scenery of singular beauty and 

 grandeur : here was the scene of Arnold's treason 

 and of Andre's fate ; and at West Point, the seat 

 of the United States military academy, 8 miles 

 below Newburg, are the ruins of Fort Putnam, 

 built during the war of independence. Emerging 

 from the highlands, the river widens into a broad 

 expanse called Tappan Bay, which is 4J miles wide 

 and 13 long. Below, on the right bank, a steep 

 wall of trap rock, called the Palisades, rises from 

 the river's brink to a height of 300 to 510 feet, and 

 extends for nearly 20 miles to the upper portion of 

 the city of New York. The river from here is 

 known as the North River, and is from 1 to 2 miles 

 wide ; and after passing between New York and 

 Hoboken and Jersey City, it falls into New York 

 Bay. Its whole length is about 350 miles, and its 

 principal tributaries are the Sacondaga, Mohawk, 

 and Walkill. The Hudson has valuable shad and 

 sturgeon fisheries. The Hudson River Railway, 

 connecting New York with Albany, runs along the 

 east bank. The river, named from the English 

 navigator who explored it in 1609, is connected by 

 canals with Lakes Erie and Champlain, and with 

 the Delaware River. In 1894 a suspension bridge 

 connecting New York and Jersey City was sanc- 

 tioned, and the plans approved in 1895. Robert 

 Fulton's first successful experiment in steamboat 

 navigation was made on this river in 1807. See 

 'Our River,' by John Burroughs, in Scribners 

 Monthly (August 1880); the Panorama of the 

 Hudson (as far as Albany ; New York, 1888) ; and 

 Wallace Bruce, The Hudson (1895). 



Hudson, capital of Columbia county, New 

 York, stands on the left bank of the Hudson River, 

 and on the Hudson River Railroad, 116 miles N. of 

 New York city. It extends along a high ridge 



