HAWN 
taken poffeffion of eT the king of Pruflia, but evacuated in 
fovember. In 18 he Fre rench. 
Tae ANS a fowalhip: i in Luzerne county, Pennfylvania. 
ce ese a townthip in Wafhington county.—Alfo, La/ 
‘et Hanover, two townfhips in Dauphine county in the 
fase ttate—Alfo, a poft-town, cailed « M*‘Allifter’s 
tawn,”” in York county, Pennfylvania, containing about 160 
dwellings, a oe ‘Luthe <a and a Ger 
church; 18 miles S.W. of York —Alfo, a poft-town in 
Plymouth county, Mattaehatetse 2 25 miles $.E. of Bofton ; 
ted in iota and oa 958 fchabitagte: a 
il of New on the E. fide of Con ut 
er, in Grafton Saaty Dartmouth college in this town is 
fituated on a plain in N. lat. 
Tio miles N.N. county Wathington cit 
— aw the ret “et North Kioto § 
coait of the North Sergi ocean, fituated 
hed 
Hanover, New, a in the Pacific ocean, 
fo called by Capt. Carteret in ns about 30 miles in 
peo Between this ila and and New Ireland there is a ftrait 
 paflage, which turns away to the N.E.; in which paiffi 
are feveral {mall ifla coum one of which there is = a 
markable peak: this ifland was « Byron’s ifland,’ 
and the ge, or ftrait, was called « Byron’s ftrait.”’ 
land of New Hanoveris highs it is finely covered writh-trees, 
among which are tations, and the 
beautiful se w 
aaah 
whole has a 
The S.W > point, 
reland,” lies in S. lat. 2° 29.. E, long. 148° t 
witaNspacn, or Hanspacn, town of Bohemia, in 
the circle of Leitmeritz, in w : 
man Calvinitt ordina 
called «Queen of 
HAN 
This celebrated affociation, which makes fo great a figure 
in the emery of nt is fuppofed by 
Fr ha ear If i : 
jn tte fides S and p pitacies so the i, &e. TI 
id not proy 
year 1241 
the origin of it to the year 12003 others trace its firlt rife 
to the year 1140; but be its origin when it will, it was con- 
firmed and re-eitablifhed in 1226 and 1284; an extra- 
amburgh, which were molt expofed 
f t us nations that fur- 
afterwards co co nfifted of na 
it. 5 its ftreng 
eem: been a fland- 
ing rule of this confederacy, that no city fhould be admitted 
into the Aan/e or han/eatic league, but fuch as were either 
ted on the fea, or on fome na vigable river, commodious 
for maritime commerce. 
The moft conliderable cities fcattered ebdingh thofe vaft 
countries which | ee fr bottom of the Baltic 
monarchs. po 
formed the firit flea ple of Reece known in the 
middle s, and c y common laws enafted in 
their general femblies. “They i oh te ne of Europe 
with naval fteres, and pitched on different towns, the moft 
eminent of which was Bruges in Flanders, where a, 
eftablith ge tik in which their commerce was regularly 
carried on. T'hither her the Lombards brought the p tions 
changed t 
moft modities of the Rar. The hai 
the cargoes which they received ‘tia ae $ in 
ae ports of the Baltic, or carried them up the great rivers 
are manufactures of cot- or 
as 
inal ur whick have long 
me about the year 1512, 
towns 
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