ment, 
“ 
eo} i 
jug The following is the population, &c. of the burgh of 
ich for 1811,. op vad bu , irks ahr Jy : 
gE Mee | oles of? be tebe od iat 
Nuinber of inhabited houses, 564 - 
2 Dh a Ati em Osit eer 5% 5 
te pitas anes AE tueteat oop ot 17 910 
;Uw Caray”. % a? ey abrliiys Sy! ft 72 
' ie Baa is a it +) a % a? * ae i 
hon ieee hair €i.Anatec? eit. Anis ylP tO) 
¥) Females fact f : big rock, recall st 2213 
* — an at an early age, he. was for some time support- 
ed by his maternal uncle ; but upon the death of this 
his only friend, he. was, obliged to support himself by 
_ teaching, ot Up 6 emg after Poh 2m the 
university, in i741, In 174 y procured a 
royal stipend or scholarship, and such was his progress 
an botanical acquirements, that he became a favourite 
‘pupil of Linnaeus ; and was por rise with such an ar- 
‘dour to- examine the botany of distant countries, that 
though affected with a complaint, he résol- 
ved, to examine the natural hi of Palestine..In 
1749, he. read lectures on botany in Stockholm ; and 
having received the offer from the Levant Company of 
a free passage to Smyrna, he set sail on the 7th August, 
_and arrived in that city on the 27th of Nov. 1747. _Du- 
ring the winter, he made an excursion to. Magnesia, and 
» onthe 13th. May, he arrived at Alexandria, and after- 
wards visited Rosetta, and Grand Cairo, In ,March 
1751, he proceeded to Damietta, from which he sailed 
to Jaffa, where he began his, ination of the natu- 
tal history of Palestine. On the 28d May he set sail 
Jor Cyprus, and after visiting Rhodes and Stanchio, he 
returned Sore in the end of eg His laborious 
exertions had. now begun to impair his strength, and 
though he tried a milk diet,and a winter's repose at 
ee yet his health gradually declined, and he 
died on the 9th February 1752, in the 31st. year of his 
MBectry trate xyaiobat wei - y real 
.. During his travelsand illness, Hasselquist had un. 
fortunatel Puenatratenh a debt, of about £350 sterling, 
_and upon his death his collections and MSS. were seized 
by his creditors at Smyrna. As soon as the Queen of 
- Sweden was informed of this event, she redeemed that 
valuable deposit, and ee it under the care of Linneus. 
The MSS. papers of Hasselquist were published in 
1757 in Swedish, under the title of Iter Palestinum, 
4 
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in one vol, 8yo. with a bicgrenhical preface b Liepe- Hastings. 
wit igwork “v= 
? 
us, and his correspondence the author, 
has been. translated into several languages, an: appear- 
ed in English in, Landon in 1766. Hasselquist is also 
the author of several memoirs in the Transactions of 
the Academies of Upsaland Stockholm from 1750 to 
cine See ferme ious bed wy a ¢ Haller’s 
tbliotheque nique 5 's Cyclopadia. 
HAST NGS, is yo: and chat town of Eng- 
land, in the county of Sussex. It i situstet! near the 
eastern extremity of the county, in a valley that forms 
a beautiful.amphitheatre, sloping on the south to the 
sea, and flanked on the east and west by Jofty hills. 
The;town. consists of two parallel streets, the High 
Street and. Fish Street, running north and south, and 
separated by a.rivulet called the Bourne, which supplies 
nearly the whole town with water, and runs into the 
sea... Thetown is well paved, and contains many band- 
some houses. The principal public buildings, are the 
two churches of All Saints and St Clement’s, the town- 
hall and market-place, and a custom-house with an es- 
tablishment of 12 riding officers. The two churches 
are very ancient buildings. St Clement's is large and 
lofty.» The town-hall was built in 1700, and has the 
-market-place under it. There are here two excellent 
free schools, founded for the education of 130 scholars ; 
and also a barrack for foot soldiers. The remains of an 
ancient.castle are still visible on a high rocky cliff to 
the west.of the town. The ruins resemble in form two 
sides of an oblique spherical triangle, having the angles 
rounded off. .The base or south side towards the sea 
completes the triangle, and is formed by a perpen- 
dienlat crag about 400. feet long. The east side is a 
plain wall about 300, feet long, and. the north-west 
side is about 400 feet, the whole area being about 1jth 
acre. The walls are about eight feet thick. A little to 
the west of the crag, are the remains of'a priory of Black 
Canons. .... » az 
Hastings is.one of the cinque ports, It had former- 
ly a good harbour and a considerable trade ; but as the 
harbour is choked up with sand, it.now carries on 
merely a small coasting trade with London. Immense 
numbers of mackarel, herrings, soles, &c. are caught here, 
and forwarded by land carriage to the London market. 
The-only way to secure ships is to draw them up on 
the beach Sebich leben eng over ee one 
it is a fort mounting eleven 12. ers, 
building i i ie to a considerable extent ; 
compan: ys 
tons burthen,‘in bringing the chalk from the Holywell 
pits at Beachy Head, from April to November. About 
120,000 bushels of lime are annually made at the kilns, 
which are situated to the west of the town. 
», Like other towns upon the coast, Hastings draws 
considerable advantages from sea-bathing. Twenty 
bathing machines stand to the west of the town, close 
to anewly formed walk called the Parade. The beach 
is here admirable; and convenient warm baths have 
been established some time ago by subscription. At 
the distance of twomiles from the town isa large broad 
stone, on which William the Conqueror dined when he 
landed here. It is called. the “« Conqueror’s Table,” 
The following is the statistical abstract for the town 
in 1811: 
Number of inhabited houses... 665 
Do. eaae stad! “patie Fre a. 
Do. em in agricul —" 
Do. in pls and manufactures 79 
