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mouth, Exeter, Concord, Charleston; Dartmouth, Ha- 
rhill, and Keene. Portsmouth, the incipal town, is 
: ted on the south bank of the Piscataqua, about 
_ two miles from its mouth. Its harbour can hold ves- 
sels of any size. It has a state-house, a work-house, 
__ two banks, three congregational churches, one episco- 
alian, and one universalist church. Eveter is situated 
at the head of the navigation, on the Swamscot, a branch 
of the Piscataqua, which will admit vessels of 500 tons, 
_ Ithas a court-house, a gaol, two congregational church- 
es, and an academy, which was incorporated in 1781. 
It is in t reputation, and has about 70 students, 
and func = ama to 80,000 dollars. Concord is a 
thriving and agreeable town on the west bank of the 
Merrimac, which is here crossed by two bridges, It 
is rising rapidly into importance, and will probably be- 
come the permanent seat of government. Charleston, 
which, consists of one street, is pleasantly situated on 
the Connecticut. It has a church, court-house, and 
gaol, The village of Dartmouth in Hanover stands in 
an elevated plain about 36 miles above Charleston. It 
is well built, and is laid out in squares. It has an aca- 
demy, a church, a college and chapel, with 2135 inha- 
bitants. Haverhill is situated at the lower Coos, a sin- 
gular bend in the Connecticut. It has two churches 
-and a court-house. Keene is a beautiful little town, 
pleasantly situated a few miles to the east of the same 
river. It has a church, court-house, and gaol. 
_ The college of New Hampshire is situated in Hano- 
ver, on a plain about half a mile east of Connecticut- 
river. Its charter is dated 1769, and it received the 
name of Dartmouth college from the Earl of Dartmouth, 
one of its*principal benefactors. Its annual revenue is 
about 1333 dollars, arising from about 80,000 acres of 
land. There are here professorships of divinity, civil and 
ecclesiastical history, mathematics, natural philosophy, 
1emistry, and medicine. A large brick edifice has lately 
been erected for the medical establishment. The num- 
ber of under uates is upwards of 170, besides 50 
who attend the medical lectures. The college has a 
chemical and medical apparatus, and the library 
contains about 4000 volumes. 
__ | The principal manufactures in this state are linen 
and woollen goods, iron articles, pot and pearl ashes, 
maple sugar, bricks, and . The iron works are 
established in the township of Franconia, but they do 
not supply the home consumption. 
The chief articles of export are timber of various 
kinds, dried and pickled fish, whale oil, tar, flax seed, 
beef, corn, oxen, cows, horses, sheep, bricks, and pearl 
ashes. The amount of ex in 1798, was 723,242 
dollars, and in 1810, 234,650. The articles imported 
into New Hampshire are West India rum, gin, mo 2 
wine, porter, sugars, tea, coffee, cotton, cheese, nails, 
salt, sea-coal, steel, lead, and grindstones. 
About 27 schooners, and 20 boats, with 250 men, are 
annually employed in the fisheries, exclusive of those 
in the islands already mentioned. 
The inland trade of this state is greatly facilitated b 
many canals and turnpike roads. There.are two canals 
in. Connecticut river within the limits of the state, 
which open up a communication for nearly 250 miles 
from its mouth. Another canal has been cut for eight 
miles through the marshes of Hampton and Salisbury, 
which meets the Merrimac épposite Newbury port. 
. The executive power of state is vested in a go- 
vernor and council. The governor, who is elected an- 
nually by the people, must be worth £500. The coun- 
cil consists of five persons, two chosen by the senate, 
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and three by the representatives. ‘The scnate consists of 
twelve members, each of whom must be worth a freehold 
of £200. Every town that contains 150 rateable polls, 
sends one r tative, who must be worth £100, 
| The judiciary court consists of five Judges, who make 
two circuits annually, There is an inferior court in 
each county that sits four times a year, and has four 
judges. All judges hold their office during their good 
viour, 
_ The aeneye 2: on sects . this state are the 
on, ists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, 
tists, Universalists, and Quakers, ran 
New Hampshire was discovered in 1614, b Captain 
Jobn Smith, It was granted to Captains ip and 
Gorges, in 1622, under the name of Laconia, and the 
first settlement init was made in 1623, at the mouth 
of the Piscataqua, and also at what is now called Dover. 
In September 1679, it was separated from Massachussets 
and made a royal gpererranent, In 1784, its present 
constitution took effect. 
The following is the population of this state from 
1749 to 1810: 
e 
Inhabitants. Inhabitants, | Inhabitants, 
_ 1749 30,000 1775 82,000 1800 183,858 
1767 52,000 1790 141,885 1810 214,460 
New Hampshire is now the 14th of the United States 
in point of population. In 1810, the number of inha- 
bitants below 16 and 45 years of age, was 39,396. See 
Morse’s Universal Geography, 8vo. p. 124. 
HANAU is a town of Germany, and formerly ca- 
pial of the county and principality of Hanau Munzen- 
urg. This beautiful town is divided into the old and 
new town, the former of which was built in 1803, and 
the latter in 1597, by the Walloons. The town con- 
tains several churches, and the palace in which the 
reigning Landgrave of Hesse Cassel has apartments ; 
but he generally occupies a small house at elmsbad 
when he comes to.this part of the Reg The gar- 
den of the e, the pleasure house of lipperte, 
and the baths of Wilhelmsbad in the neighbour of 
the town, are deserving of notice. Hanau contains 
manufactures of earthen ware, tobacco, woollen stock. 
ings, playing cards, arms, and articles in steel. Popu- 
lation 11,000. 
HANDEL, Georce Freperic, a celebrated com- 
ser, was born at Halle in Saxony, in the year 1684. 
is father, an eminent physician, designed him for the 
study of the law ; but the decided propensities which 
he disp!ayed for music at an age when youthful genius 
rarely begins to expand, speedily demonstrated that his 
intentions would be disappointed. Handel is said to 
have privately resorted to a clavichord, an instrument 
strung with catgut, resembling a piano-forte, in a re- 
mote apartment, and continued playing upon it when 
the rest of the family had retired to sleep. His father, 
therefore, was induced to place him under the tuition 
of the organist of the cathedral ; and at only nine years 
of age, he is said to have composed some motets which 
were adopted in the service of the churches. Distin- 
guished musicians have sometimes exhibited similar 
precocious talents, but they seldom attain proportional 
excellence in maturer age: and if we admire the 
ductions of children, it is generally in forgetting how 
much they would be undervalued were they the com- 
positions of men. 
The fae pigs of Lig oa al ala was great and 
rapid, and was strikingly in the composition 
of an opera at the early ie § of fourteen, while he 
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