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natives of New South Wales. Our P. elUptlca, L. Tr. 

 V. Q. 305 may be doubtful. 



HOUGHTON-le-Spkisg, in Geography, a townihip in 

 a parifli of the fame name, and in Eafington Ward, in 

 the county of Durham. In 181 1, it contamed 221 houfes, 

 and i356perfons; r/a. 663 males, and 693 females: 44 

 families being employed in agriculture, and 68 m trade 

 and manufadure. The parifti includes 18 townftiips. 



HOWARD, a townfhip of Centre county, in Pennfyl- 

 vania, having 761 inhabitants. 



HOWDEN. In 181 1, this townfhip contamed 314 

 houfes, and 1812 perfons ; viz. 830 males, and 982 females. 



HOWELL, a townfhip of Monmouth county, in 

 New Jerfey, having 2780 inhabitants. 



HUBARDTON. See Hubbarton. 



HUBBARD, a townfhip of Ohio, in Trumbull county, 

 having 674 inhabitants. 



HUBBARDSTON, 1. 3, r. 1127. 



HUBBARTON, or Hubardston, 1. 2, r. 734. 



HUDDERSFIELD, 1. 27, r. 1811— 1871— 9671. 



HULL, col. 5, 1. 9 from bottom, r. 181 1 ; 1. 8, 461 1 ; 

 1.7,26,792—11,998—14,794. 



Hull, in America, 1. i and 2, for SulTex r. Plymouth ; 

 1. 3, r. 132. 



HUMITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



HUMMOCK, 1. 12 from bottom, dek the reference 

 (fee that article). 



HUMOURS 0/ the Eye, Chemical Properties of. See 

 Eve. 



HUMPHRIES, in Geography, a county of Weil Ten- 

 nelTee, having 151 1 perfons, of whom 132 were flaves in 

 1810. 



HUNGARY, col. 2, 1. 33, after inhabitants (in j8io, 

 -398, 104). 



HUNGERFORD, 1. 2 from bottom, r. 181 1 — 167— 



943- 



HUNTINGDON, col. 3, two laR lines, r. 18 i 1—522 



—2397—450- 



HuNTiNGDOS, in America, 1. 7, r. 16,778 ; 1. 14, r. 476; 

 after Philadelphia, add — the townfhip contains 1698 per- 

 fons ; 1. 22, r. 2770. 



Huntingdon, North, South, and Eajl, three townlliips, 

 &c. the former containing 2345, the fecond 1656, and the 

 lad 1267 inhabitants. 



Huntingdon, a townfhip in Luzerne county, in Pennfyl- 

 vania, having 11 14 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townihip of 

 Adams' county, in the fame flate, having 1014 inhabitants. 

 — Alfo, a townfhip of Adams' county, in Ohio, contain - 

 '"K '375 perfons. 



HUNTINGDONSHIRE, 1. 14, r. 7566 houfes, 

 42,208 inhabitants ; 20,402 males, 21,806 females. 



HUNTINGTON, 1. 3, r. 514. 



Huntington, in Connefticut. See Huntingdon. 



HUNTSBURG, 1. 3, r. 714. 



HURD, Richard, in Biography, an eminent Englifh 

 prelate, was the fon of a reputable farmer, in the parifh 

 of Teterfhall, in the county of Stafford, and born in 

 January 1719-20. After a preparatory fchool-education, 

 he was fent to Emanuel college in the univerfity of Cam- 

 bridge, where he was graduated M.A., and was elefted a 

 feUow in 1742. In 1744 he received prieft's orders. As 

 a writer, he began his career by an anonymous work, which 

 was, " Remarks on a late Book, entitled an Enquiry into the 

 Rejeftion of the Chriflian Miracles by the Heathens, by 

 William Wefton, B.D. &c. ;" and which was highly com- 

 mended by Dr. Warburton. As a literary critic, he firft 

 laid the foundation of his future fame in 1749, by an ano- 



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nymous publication, entitled " Horace's Epiftles to the 

 Pifos, with an Englifh Commentary and Notes ;" and alfo of 

 his fortune by a compliment paid in the preface to Warbur- 

 ton, whom he afterwards rcfembled, not only in his advance- 

 ment, but in his mode of thinking and of writing. By his 

 recommendation to Bifhop Sherlock, he was appointed, in 

 1750, one of the Whitehall preachers. In 1751, he pub- 

 lished a " Commentary on Horace's Epiflle to Auguftus," 

 refembling in learning and ingenuity his former commentary. 

 Both theie Commentaries were reprinted in 1753, with two 

 differtations on dramatic poetry and poetical imitation. This 

 volume was dedicated to Warburton in a high ftyle of pane- 

 gyric ; and it was followed, in 1755, by a piece, entitled 

 " Delicacy of Friendfhip," in which the anonymous author, 

 known to be Hurd, paid homage to his patron by an attack 

 on Dr. Jortin, who, in his " Six Differtations," had not 

 treated Warburton with that refpedt to which, in the efti- 

 mation of his admirers, he was thought to be entitled. By 

 this pamphlet he gained no reputation, and it is faid, that 

 in confequence of fome remarks on his fubfervient difpoli- 

 tion, he was defirous of fupprefTing it, though it has been 

 fince reprinted in a late edition of his works. His firfl 

 church preferment was a college li\nng at Thurcallon in 

 Leicefter, to which he was indufted in 1756, and here he 

 lived for feveral years in retirement. Soon after Hume's 

 " EfTay on the Natural Hiflory of Religion" was publifhed, 

 a pamphlet of" Remarks" upon it appeared, of which Hurd 

 was thought to be the author, and which Hume notices in the 

 following terms : " Dr. Hurd wrote a pamphlet againft; this 

 work, with all the illiberal petulance, arrogance, and fcurrility 

 which diftinguifh the Warburtonian fchool." Thefe Re- 

 marks have been thought to be the joint produftion of the 

 mafter and difciple. Hurd's " Letter to Mr. Mafon on 

 the Marks of Imitation," publifhed in 1757, isreprefentedby 

 his biographer as " one of the mofl agreeable and ingenious 

 of the writer's works on elegant criticifm." Our author's 

 " Moral and Political Dialogues," which appeared in 1759, 

 contributed to the increafe of his literary reputation ; and 

 thofe in particular that relate to the Englifh conflitution 

 evince the writer's attachment to Whig principles. In 1762 

 appeared, without his name, an amufing work, entitled 

 " Letters on Chivalry and Romance," i2mo. ; and in 

 1 764 was publifhed another dialogue on " The Ufes of 

 Foreign Travel." The feveral dialogues now recited were 

 publifhed in 1765, in 3 vols. Svo. introduced with a preface 

 on the manner of writing dialogue. The defence of his. 

 patron and friend had in the mean time occafioned a " Letter 

 to the Rev. Dr. Leland of Dublin College ;" in which he 

 vindicates Warburton's idea of an infpired language. Hated 

 in his " Doftrine of Grace." 



Hurd's preferments in the church had not correfponded to 

 his growing literary fame ; but in 1765 he was recommended 

 by bilhop Warburton and Mr. C. York to the office of 

 preacher at Lincoln's-Inn ; and in 1767 he was collated by 

 the bifhop to the archdeaconry of Gloucefler. In the fol- 

 lowing year, he was graduated D.D. at Cambridge, and ap- 

 pointed to preach the leftures on prophecy, ellablifhed at 

 Lincoln's-Inn by Warburton ; thefe were comprifed in 

 twelve difcourfes, which formed a volume of highly valuable 

 theological literature, pubhfliedin 1772, Svo. with his expli- 

 cation of the double fenfe of prophecy, called by him " a 

 divine artifice." With that excefs of ingenuity which in 

 fome cafes feeras to derogate from the fimplicity of the gofpel, 

 fome have been diffatisfied. Having eflablifhed his reputa- 

 tion both as an elegant writer and an ingenious theologian. 

 Dr. Hurd was promoted without folicitation to the fee of 

 Lichfield and Coventry in 1775 ; and in his firft charge to 



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