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carrying on the business of collecting furs, the 

 company now derives a large income from the sale 

 of these conceded lands. 



See Fitzgerald's Examination of the Charter, and Mont- 

 gomery Martin's Hudson's Bay Company's Territories, 

 both published in 1849, Butler's Great Lone Land (1872), 

 and H. M. Robinson's Great Fur Land ( New York, 1879). 

 Illir, the capital of Annam, 10 miles from the 

 mouth of the Hue River, or Truongtien. In 1801 

 it was strongly fortified by French officers. The 

 heart of the city is occupied by the palace ; much 

 of the rest of it is composed of mud huts. Since 

 before Annam became a French protectorate, there 

 has been a French resident at Hue ; and since 

 the treaty of Hue in 1884 there is a French garrison 

 in Thuanan, the port of Hue. There is little 

 industry in Hue, which has a population of 30,000 

 (with suburbs, 50,000), including a number of 

 Chinese. See ANNAM. 



Hue and Cry, a phrase derived from the old 

 process of pursuit with horn and voice, used in old 

 English law to describe the pursuit of felons. 

 Whoever arrested the person pursued was pro- 

 tected ; and it was the duty of all persons to join 

 in a hue and cry. The Hue and Cry, a police 

 gazette for advertising criminals, was established 

 in 1710. 



Hlieffer, FRANCIS, musical critic and Pro- 

 vencal scholar, was born at Miinster, in West- 

 phalia, in 1845, studied at Berlin, Leipzig, and 

 Paris, and settled in London in 1869. He soon 

 became an authority on music, was musical critic 

 of the Times, and was recognised as the champion 

 in Britain of Wagner and Wagnerian music. In 

 1869 he edited the Provei^al poet Guillem de 

 Cabestanh, and in 1878 published The Trouba- 

 dours : a History of Provencal Life and Literature 

 in the Middle Ages. Two works on Wagner were 

 from his pen one in 1874, the other in the ' Great 

 Musicians' series, in 1881. He died January 19, 

 1889. 



Uncivil, a thriving town of Spain; situated 

 near the confluence of the Odiel and the Tinto, 68 

 miles by rail WSW. of Seville. Fishing and the 

 plaiting of esparto grass are the chief industries. 

 Huelva is the port for the important Rio Tinto 

 copper-mines, in British hands, and a shipping 

 place for wine. An iron pier was erected in 

 1889-90. Some 500,000 tons of copper ore, 450,000 

 of iron ore, besides manganese, quicksilver, wine, 

 &c. are annually exported ; the imports, especially 

 coal and coke, iron and steel, amount to 150,000 

 tons. Pop. 19,000. The province of Huelva has an 

 area of 3913 sq. m., and a pop. of 250,000. 



Huerta, VICENTE GARCIA DE LA, a Spanish 

 poet and critic, was born in 1730 at Zarra, in 

 Estremadura, but spent the greater part of his life 

 in Madrid, where he was head of the Royal Library, 

 and where he died on 12th March 1787. His 

 tragedy of Raquel (1778), founded upon the story 

 of the love of King Alfonso VIII. for the fair 

 Jewess Rachel, was received with great enthusiasm, 

 and is .still esteemed one of the best of modern 

 Spanish tragedies. Huerta was a zealous but not 

 always consistent opponent of the prevailing Galli- 

 cism of his own day. As a lyric and dramatic poet 

 he shows great command of language and versifi- 

 cation. His poems were published in two volumes 

 in 1778-79, and again in Biblioteca de Autores 

 Espaiioles (vol. Ixi. ). Huerta edited the Teatro 

 Espaiiol (17 vols. 1785-86), a collection of the best 

 works of the older Spanish dramatists. 



lllK'sra, a very old and picturesque town of 

 Spain, on the Isuela, 55 miles by a branch-line NE. 

 of Saragossa. Among its chief buildings are the 

 cathedral ( 1400-1515), a beautiful Gothic edifice; 

 the Romanesque church of San Pedro ( 1150-1241 ) ; 



the university, founded in 1354 by Pedro IV. ; and 

 a former palace of the kings of Aragon. The Osca 

 of the Romans, where Sertorius was murdered in 

 72 B.C., Huesca afterwards became famous as a 

 seat of learning. Tanning and manufactures of 

 linens are here carried on to some extent. Pop. 

 13,043. The province of Huesca has an area of 5848 

 sq. in., and a pop. (1887) of 254,958. 



Huescar, a town of Spain, 75 miles NE. of 

 Granada. Pop. 7760. 



Huet, PIERRE DANIEL, French scholar and 

 polymath, was born at Caen, February 8, 1630. 

 He was educated in the Jesuit school of Caen, 

 and became a zealous pupil of Descartes and of 

 Bochart. The latter he accompanied on a visit to 

 Stockholm in 1652, when he discovered and tran- 

 scribed the MS. of Origen which was the basis of 

 his celebrated edition of that father fifteen years 

 later. On his return home he gave himself up 

 entirely to study. In 1661 he published his essay 

 De Interpretation. In 1670 he was appointed with 

 Bossuet tutor of the dauphin, and in the same year 

 wrote his Essai sur VOrigine des Eomains. He 

 took an active part also in preparing the Delphin 

 edition of the classics. Having in 1676 taken holy 

 orders, he was successively abbot of Aunay (1678), 

 Bishop of Soissons (1685) and Avranches (1692), 

 and aobot of Fontenay (1699). In 1679 appeared 

 one of his most important books, Demonstratio 

 Evangelica. In 1701 he withdrew to the Jesuits' 

 house in Paris, where he died, 26th January 1721. 

 During his episcopal career Huet published a couple 

 of books on the Cartesian philosophy, another on 

 reason and faith, and another on the site of the 

 earthly paradise. To his latest years belong His- 

 toire du Commerce et de la Navigation des Ancients 

 (1716), and his autobiographical memoirs (1718). 

 His works were published in a collected form in 

 1712, and a volume of Huetiana appeared in 1722. 

 In this latter year Huet's Traite de la Faiblesse de 

 I'Esprit Humaine, which excited much contro- 

 versy, first saw the light. See his Latin autobio- 

 graphy (1713), the French Life by Bartholomess 

 (1850), and an article in the Quarterly, 1855. 



Hufeland, CHRISTOPH WILHELM, German 

 physician, was born on 12th August 1762, at 

 Langensalza, in Thuringia. After studying at 

 Jena and Gottingen, he was appointed physician 

 to the court of Weimar, where his father and his 

 grandfather had previously filled the same office. 

 In 1793 he was appointed professor of Medicine 

 at Jena, and in 1798 went to Berlin to preside 

 over the medical college there and the Charite 

 Hospital. On the foundation of the university 

 of Berlin in 1809 he became one of its professors. 

 He died 25th August 1836. He had a very high 

 reputation for skill as a physician, was greatly 

 esteemed for his intellectual abilities and his fine 

 character, and founded a number of benevolent 

 societies and institutions. Of his published works 

 the most notable were the famous Makrobiotik, 

 or the art of prolonging life (1796 ; 8th ed. 1889), 

 which was translated into almost all the languages 

 of Europe ; a work on the physical education of 

 the young ( 1799 ; 12th ed. 1875 ) ; and Enchiridion 

 Medicum ( 1836 ; 10th ed. 1857). 



Hug, JOHANN LEONHARD, Catholic theologian', 

 was born at Constance, June 1, 1765, entered into 

 priest's orders in 1789, was appointed a professor of 

 Theology at Freiburg in 1791, and died there, llth 

 March 1846. The most important fruit of his 

 biblical researches was his Introduction to the New 

 Testament (2 vols. 1808), which was translated into 

 most of the European languages (Eng. by D. G. 

 Wait, 1827). 



Huggins, SIR WILLIAM, K.C.B. ( 1897), astrono- 

 mer, was born in London on 7th February 1824. 



