Hail 
Half. 
HAL 
and-splendour may be expected to return. East Long. 
ae is AT", Norte Lat 52° 4/ 50’. See Trotter’s Me- 
moirs of Fox ; Fell’s Tour in Holland ; Owen's Travels, 
vol. i. ; and Sir J. Carr's T'ravels in Holland. (q) 
HAI. See Merrorozocy. 
HAINAN, Istanp or. See Cutna, vol: vi. p.,210. 
HAINAU. See Hanav. ty 
HAIR. See Anatomy, vol. i. p. 842, and vol. ii. P 
24; and Gordon’s System of Human Anatomy, vol. i. 
See also Prica Potontica. 
HALBERSTADT, is amancient town of Prussia, and 
capital of the principality of the same name, It is si- 
tuated in the circle of Lower Saxony, on the small river 
Holtzemme. The principal public edifices and curiosi- 
ties are the cathedral, from the summit of which there 
is a fine view of the town, the court of St Peter's, the 
church of Notre Dame, and its organ. The palace now 
forms the town-house and excise-offices. There is here 
a literary society, which has published several journals 
of merit ; and there are excellent libraries belonging to 
the cathedral, to the church of Sta Maria, the church of 
St Martin, and that of the Franciscans. The cathedral 
library contains a manuscript of Priscian upon parch- 
ment, and several annotations in the handwriting of 
Luther. The Temple of the Muses, belonging to M. 
Gleim, one of the celebrated German poets, is worthy 
of being visited. The principal manufactures of this 
town are those of woollen and linen goods, gloves and 
pipes, paper and wax, There is here also a work in 
_. which cobalt is prepared. The mountains of Spiegel- 
berge, about half'a league from this town, are deserving 
the notice of travellers. They have been laid out in the 
‘English style of landscape-gardening, by the late Baron 
Spiegel. The village of Stropke, about 14 leagues from 
Halberstadt, is celebrated for the skill with which its 
peasantry play at chess. Halberstadt was burned in 
1179 by Henry the Lion, and a remarkable diet was 
held there by Lotharius I]. in 1134. In 1203, it was 
surrounded by walls and ditches. By the treaty of Til- 
sit it was annexed to the kingdom of Westphalia; but 
we believe that it has now reverted to the Prussian mo- 
narchy. Breyhahn, the supposed inventor of beer, was 
born in this town ; and his house, containing an inscrip- 
tion in honour of him, is still shewn. The population, 
which now amounts to 11,700, is composed equally of 
Catholics and Calvinists. East Longitude 11° 3’ 33’’, 
North Latitude 51° 53’ 55”. 
HALES, Srepuen. See Borany, p. 34. 
HHALF-Nore, Elementary, in music, according to 
several writers, has the ratio }£, =575-4f+-5m, and is 
the Semirone-major, which see. 
Hatr-Nnore, inger-key,.or artificial, .is.of very dif- 
ferent magnitudes in the different modes of tuning, 
and places in the scales of keyed instruments. The 
number of f’s in our notation, of any musical interval 
(by =, fand m), shews its number of these half-notes ; 
as is fully explained in our article Fincer-xey In- 
tervals. 
Haxe-nore, Greater, of Holden, has the ratio 25 
=5724+f+5m. See Semirons Major. 
Ea py. ee or mean, is 7yth of the octave, 
=1+ R-— 1} b> 4$,m, or 51,0032 f, ‘ 
See Mean Seiten if, cite eer, 
Hatr-nove, Lesser, of Holden, has the ratio += 
3624f+43m. See Semrrone Minor. 
HaAF-QuarTER Fone, of the Diacomatic genus, .ac- 
cording to Feytou, is + T,=13 5 4 4f+4 lim, = 
13.058398= +m, its-common log. being .9936059,3469, 
Mr Hoyle and others call this interval a comma. 
5 
604. 
, . broad and narrow cloths, coatings, and carpets. Se- — 
HAL 
Hatr-stops on the Organ, are those ranges of pipes 
which do not go through the whole compass of;the in- Hal 
strument, from the treble to the bass; as the vorne! and 
the sesquialtera stops, the dulciana, basoon, &e- 
Haur-roye of the ancients, had the ratio 243,= 
465-+4-f+4m ; which is now called the Limma. See 
that article. ’ 
Haur-ronr of Brougham, has the ratio 3%,= 
76.897955 = +f4.7m; itscommon log. = 9616713,1976, 
and it is the hemitone major of Ptolemy’s chromaticum 
intensum., ; f | 
Haur-tone, Chromatic Tontcum, is 4T.=2,/2~8, 
=5254f+4 4m, =52.0039312E x f4m; its common | 
log. =.9744237,3877,—=.084962 x VILI,=4.74070 x C, . 
=4VIII+2+ 4m. Itis the hemitone of the soft dia- 
tonic, and the chromatic diesis of Hoyle. 
Hatr-Tone, mean, of Sauveur, is ¢) VUI,=1--1%4/2,, 
=51.0038276-+4f4+4m. See Mean Semirone; Ing 
Ha r-tTong, mean, of Dr Smith, is 4 [11 ,=4/2+-44/5, 
=1915+f+41m, =49.2519665 4f+ 4m ; its common 
log.=.9757724,9607 5.080482 x VIII,= 4.490705 xC: 
it is sometimes called the mean half note. ; 
HALIFAX, is a populous market town of England, 
in the west riding of Yorkshire. It is situated on the 
western slope of a gentle eminence, washed by a branch 
of the river Calder, and is surrounded’on all sides with. 
high hills. ‘The town is about three quarters of a mile 
long from west to east, but it is narrow dnd irregular 
in its breadth. The houses are in general neat and 
well built, and the town has a singularly variegated 
appearance, from the mixture of brick and stone build- 
ings, and from the great number of small inclosures sur- 
rounded with stone walls. The ¢hurch, which is a 
large Gothic structure, stands near the east end of the 
town. It is 64 yards long, and 20 broad, and is sup- 
posed to have been built in the reign of Henry I. The 
tower of the church, which is well proportioned, is said 
to be 117 feet high. Within the chnueh are two cha- 
els, one on the north, and the other on the south side. 
his church having been found two small, an elegant. 
and spacious new church has lately been erected. The 
cloth hall, or piece hall, erected for the convenience of 
the manufacturers, is a large and elegant edifice of free- 
stone, in the form of an oblong square. It covers an 
area of 10,000 square yards, and has 315 separate 
rooms for the reception of goods. It is generally open 
from 10°to 12 o'clock, and goods to t 
£50,000 are often ex to sale at a time. % 
The parish of Halifax is one of the largest in Eng< 
land. It covers a space of 150 square iniles, and has 
13 chapels. It contains no fewer than 26 villages, 
whose united population, according to the census of 
1811, is 73,515. The chief manufactures ied on 
in the parish, are those of shalloons unpressed, and dyed 
of a scarlet’ colour, which are sent to Turkey and the 
Levant ; tammies, duroys, calamancoes, everlastings, 
russets, figured and flowered armines, says, moreens, 
and shags, kerseys, half thicks, serges, houlies, baize, 
amount of 
veral cotton manufactories have also been erected 
here. The trade of this town is greatly facilitated by 
a navigation from Sowerby bridge, in the neighbour- 
hood of the town, along the Calder, to Hull, and will 
receive additional advantages from the Rochdale canal, 
which -will connect the Calder at tei. bridge with 
the Bridgewater canal at Manchester. Excellent wool 
cards are.also manufactured here. Great quantities of 
ae “ecg found in the neighbourhood are sent te 
ondon. 
