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| ~ Herat carries n'a very extensive trade, dnd has 
therefore received the appellation of Bunder or Port. 
It is the emporium of the commerce carried on between 
Cabul,” Cashmere, Bukhara; Hindostan, and Persia. 
Cabul ies the inhabitants of Herat with shawls 
and raw ‘sugar, chintz, muslin, leather, and_T. 
skins; which export ‘to Meshed, Yezd, Kerman, 
Ispahan, and Tehraun, and receive in return dollars, 
, , ‘pepper, and su- 
candy. Kerman furnishes. dates shawls, and 
‘receive carpets from Ghaen, The staple com- 
re of ‘Herat, are silks, saffron, and assafcetida, 
which are 
Hindoos, vdistinguidkedby-shoge and credit; and who 
er istinguished by the government, in conse+ 
quence of their ‘conimeércial concerns, 96.6) 
ter at Herat; is often injurious to) the ‘crops ; but no~ 
tailed sheep are'abundant. |The revenue of the town: 
is estimated at 44 lacks of rupees. It is raised by a 
tax on caravanseras, y and gardens, and a:duty-on 
and imports. e town is governed by Prince 
exports ; 
Hadjy Firooze, son of the late ‘king of Cabul, who 
my Be of 50,000-rupees to Persia. 
e population of Herat is 100,000, of whom 10,000 
are Patans, 600 Hindoos, and the remainder Afghans, 
with a few Jews. ~ East Long. 63° 14’, North Lat. 
34° 12’, See Macdonald Kinneir’s Geographical Me- 
moir of the Persian Empire, p. 181—183..- 
a ULT is the name of one of the 
he Hera psy Pex and: runs into seer 
ednnal-of tse Seitty, whicly Hegiam iat Cotto; passes wi 
ith- 
_ in’ 12 myriameters of Montpellier, coasts along the 
' Mediterranean, and’ after “aay - sane non Ha » 
ascends to Bezieres, and from this, after 
Orbe, it goes on to Narbonne. The woods in this 
are very fine, but not numerous. They 
occupy only from 28 to 29 hectares, or from 54 or 55 
acres, one half of which belongs to the nation. The con- 
tributions in 1803. were 334,317 francs. The principal 
towns are ud teens 
Montpellier, the capital . . $3913 
pASORIGTES uals ..prgshn dusreayeenere 0% oh Jind RX 
Lodeve, be fl) -greleu aeeely ep) eye 7843. 
St P 4506 
Pit Sect 54d ee aniedne dtodd: tet 
The population of the department is 291,957 
‘See France, vol. ix. p. 676. col 2, 
HER 
' HERCULANEUM, is an ancient city of Italy, situa- 
ted onthe Bay of’ Naples, and supposed to have been eis 
ther founded by Hercules,orin honour of him, 1250 years 
before the Christian era. About 957 years later, the 
Romans seem to have taken ion. of the city, and 
to have retained it ever after. In the year 63, it suffered 
severely from an earthquake, which, according to Sene- 
ca, occasioned the total ruin of part of it, and left the re- 
mainder in narra san But in the year 79, an erup- 
tion of Vesuvius fi first time exhibiting volcanic fires 
to the existing generation, buried the whole many feet 
ns tea Bis pe eeepc tulle owe on 
oui aren pe See by torrents of li- 
va, or swallow which 
_or swallowed up by the earthquakes 
Cuncta jacent flammis et tristi mersa favilla. Mantis. 
one of Ch were, withdrawn from what proved, 
to be a.temple in the centre, of the ancient Hercula~ 
neum,, lee-o3 ) 
complete search to be made am 
subterraneous city, and all the antiquities to be preser- 
ved. This was long and ardently prosecuted ; and the 
entrance.is now gained by.a narrow passage, descend-. 
Rprdeeeeh Selma See the surface, 
where it branches into numerous alleys leading to diffe- 
| vent streets and buildings. Neither the precise extent 
or population. of Herculaneum can be. ascertained, 
though it is»probable that both were considerable; and 
we: know thatut »was.a-city of the second order. All 
the streets run in straight lines; they are paved with 
blocks of lava, which, indicates the vicinity of more an< 
cient volcanic eruptions ; and there is, for the most part, 
an elevated foot-path along their sides, for the conve- 
nience of pedestrians. The houses, whose exterior does 
not seem to have been ornamental or regular, consisted 
only of one story, built‘of brick. The walls of many 
are thrown out of the perpendicular, and some are co- 
vered with coloured stucco, upon which are executed 
i << in fresco, From the general appearance ex~ 
ibited by the different edifices, we may safely conjec~ 
ture that on al ic pence of vay paae 
or ashes, which fell in repeated showers, an in 
ahumid state, until the city was totally buried under it. 
Indeed it was so fine, that the most perfect impressions 
of thei objects’ thus covered were imprinted there, and, 
ir being now removed, the cavity may serve for 
a plaster or metallic cast. By this means innumerable 
articles were preserved entire, and scarcely displaced 
ceived accessions uhaccompanied by any extra- 
orilinary de of heat or violence. 
Hercula- 
beum. 
_—— 
, The remains of several public,.buildings have been! Ancient 
discovered, which shave. pussibly «suffered from. subse- temple 
quent.convulsions. | Amiony:thiese are two temples, one 
of them 150 feet by 60,.im which was found a statue of 
