HAN 
HAMWARDS, in Rural Econamy, aterm ‘pnatiiedally 
applied, i in — places, to ftraw or rufh-collars for horfes or 
ar ani 
r at airo, 
rent of oe eleventh cota the Chritian er era. 
wers amon 
of Syria, whofe ackecntanen “til maintain his pecu- 
liar tenets, ‘and particularly the fundamental one, that the 
freat of the univerfe became incarnate in Hakem, in 
our to inculcate on mankind the principles of true religion, 
2 off adoration fuited to 
Catholic Chriltianity. 
it can be denominated, 
The followers of this fyftem, if fo 
are fo Sores that nothing precife 
concerning their neler can be lea from them or their 
prieits. ‘The work, which is held re the higheft ation 
ong them, was com a as and is entitled 
“The B f Teftimonies to of the Unity.” 
It was intended as a rival to, or fubititute for the Koran, 
brary at P. 
the i language. oreri. 
Cap tir a city of China, of the fecond vats 
N 
in the i niesee N. lat. 
Han, = near the deat of Saoltind. N. lat. 
58° 37’. W 
AMIN! ;a * B35 ifland near the weftern coaft of 
aes and ‘county of Galway 5 ; 2 miles N.W. of Rinuell 
= HANA B ALTHALEs, in the Materia Mouteain name 
ufed, by the ancient Fieri eh writers, to ) exprefs the 
"fa NAPER, or amen, an office in ony: 
under the direétion 6): is deputy and clerks, 
oe in fome fact Bo he fifeus amon the Ro 
tases Clerk of the. ‘See Cuerx of the Hamper, 
BANAU,j in Geography, a town = Aetna ve of « : nt; 
@e 
enbu 
Han 2 
Maine. Iti 18 divide 2 into Old and New Peweh's ale fornee 
eceived i i Po! 
foe the latter’ was built in 15 
7 America, called « 
HAN 
fruits. It contains magnificent forefts, mines of sap So 
per, filver, and cobalt. It was erected 
into a county 
sires fell by compaé to the landgrave of bie 
» 
coran was created. = aires opinions, maintain 
by the orthodox, st them, at this period, Pe cruel 
perfecutions from the princes of the houfe of Abba an- 
bal was kept in prifon till the fucceffion of anew ? prince,’ 
when he was fet at —— = sagt! sapere for all his 
fufferings. fecutions, efta- 
d Hanbal, unt of his per 
' blitheda fect, named fier) himfelf Hanbalites, who attracted 
— hereafter place Mahomet upon the throne of his glory 
mfelf. The other Mahometan fects, while they con- 
deianeia this do€trine as heretical and impious, maintain that 
the prophet would be exalted to the high ee of mediator 
and interceflor for alltrue believers at the da ment. 
— difcordant opinions led to the mott favage perfécutionr, 
were continued a long time, fo that Bagdat was a 
oduuate {cene of blood and aaa —— died iste 
year 241, or 855 of the Chriftian niv ift. 
HANCES, ina Ship, are falls or cas of the file 
rails, which are aoe as banifters in the poop, &c. and 
down to the gang-w 
HANCES =~ or Sa BE in a are the ends of de 
liptical arches, which are f fmaller circles than the 
{cheme or wadaie part o: 
HANCOCK 
> in Geography, a ‘large matitime county of, 
America, in the ftate of Maine, bounded N. by Lower Ca- 
nada, S. by the ocean, E. by i —- and W. 
by Lincoln and Kennebeck counties $ 190 mil es lon, } 
N. to S. and nearly 60 broad, interfected b Penobicot river. 
Tt contains feveral townfhips and plantations 5 3 and aires 
ber of inhabitants is 16,3:6. It is we watered 
the fea cont are many harbours and inlets, hidden by a ge 
titude of fertile iflands ; the largeit of which are fituated in 
Penobcot bay. The towns along the fea-coaft, and on the 
ks of the rivers Penobfcot and Unior 
preg ag 
‘“Mafbeet”” by the Indians, 
