HAM 
“ Siake of the Lepers.”” A fmall rivulet is formed by “ 
water which flows from thefe baths, ruck after having 
pre condu@ted in a number of aol reams through the 
adjacent gardens, becomes eens 
wards eh ed “ Lake of = 
.Shaw’s Travels, p. 1 
HAMMAM eas a town of Africa, in Tunis, having a 
celebrated hot bath, much reforted to ~ the inhabitants of 
the capital, and near it is a mountain in lead-ore ; 14 
iles S. of Tunis. 
See Mer 
gna! rats Ae 
Mefkontecn, atown of soe in Algiers ; 36 
ire 
? and lofes itfelf | in the fand. 
Ham 
miles E. "oft Conitantina. 
HAMMAMLJU, atown of A fiatic Pukey, 3 in Make, ; 
#5 miles W. of gs aman ifar. 
~ HAMME, a town of France, in the department of the 
Schelde and chief place of a canton, in the diitr f Ter- 
- The place contains 7238, and the canton ie 51 inha- 
— on a territory o of 59 kiliometres, in four com- 
“HA \MMEL’s Town, a town of America, in Dauphiné 
Pennfylvania, five miles _— sulaseleestnals river, 
a church, 
‘The Latins call i it spree ancieatly martulus or 
which 
r marculus 3 
name Pliny calls it when he Bee Hake fon 
\MMER, “Yellow, in Orth See Eatuehiaa Citri- 
Saviiretherdonnd, i prices is faid of iron which is 
hort or brittle, owing to its having been hammered when 
in a warm or due red heat, which is fuppofed to clofe its 
. Hammer-hardened iron, by being heated to a white 
,_ and fuffered to ead gradual again recovers ‘its 
_ See Harpevine. 
| ace thofe collier 
‘= “ey pit mire 
by ¥ engines, ‘are ery ag a 
she yon aot deitin it out to bars. mel 
of the fame kind a are led goatee i thes 
its éonrie t- 
H AM 
rway, in the dioc fe af 
Aggerhuus ; 76 nals N. of Chriftiania. N. lat. or 9 E. 
long. 10° 25/. 
HAMMER ions a fmall ifland of Sweden, in the. Baltic, 
ap the coait of Blechingen; four miles E. of — 
crona. 
HAMMERDALE, a town of get in the proviice 
of Jutland; 32 miles N.E. of Fro 
HAMMERING, the aé of mie or extending and 
fathioning a body aiices the hammer, 
When. it is seteticd on iron heated for the pepo ae 
fmiths ufually call it forgin 
[AMMERING; i in Coining. iece of money, ora ed: 
is faid to be hammered fe feruck, and the impreffion given 
with a hammer and not witha intl. 
= or the m:thod of Tees a with the hamencs. fee Com. 
ees of EY PAge pte = Prtmaconas, a 3 
HAMMERSCHMIDT, Anpreas, in Biog 
eminent Lutheran ecclefiaftical compofer, born at Bring, 
ohemia. Walter has given a long lift of his: tior 
xine are chiefly K snciped and faid to o have eet churck 
— = much, that je + d 3 the 
g Geman . He died 2615, 2 a) fxty-four ed 
nae ort toroid tenes care 4 
,or 
in the ak of Fulha, hundred ar ‘Offulton, ct art 
of Middlefex, c ,in — 1801, 920 houfes, 
5600 inhabitants. fhe Se > interregnum it caspeomaa 
to 
and althou gh ea has reffive! ‘ 
yet the. wake tacit dent on a prose sarin a nd 
this. at is eentiok: —_ 1540 acres, marty sooiet 
which are occupied. =~ “al 
is covered, with houfes, t 
> many feats; villas, and rows of houfess 
thefe is ¢ Handcobergh a which has been crip by 
many d 
fir Nicholas Crifpe, about: the beginnin of ki 
the Firit’ sreign. It-was afterwards fold e. prince I 
a refidence for pt a pi an admired oes w 
feveral other houfes, which. have been occupied. xo ine 
guilhed chara&ers ; but it would exceed our limits to1 or 
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