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and Harris, the two belt artifts in Europe, was carried on 
with fuch ee by the friends of both fides, that they 
‘¢ were juit not ruined.” _—_Indee old Rofei eingrave’ affured 
us, that the earn | for each candidate, in the fu 
their zeal, proceeded to the moft mifchievous and unwarrant- 
able a&ts of holtilities; and that in the night preceding iid 
aft trial of the reed-ftops, the friends of Harris cut the 
lows of Smith’s organ in fuch a manner, that when ae 
time came for playing upon it, no wind could be conveyed 
into the wind-cheft. 
arris’s 0 2 afer its rejection at the Temple, was 
part of i . Andrew is en and part in 
the cathedral of Ghrift-charch, ed lin 
Harris, WILLIAM, was bor fbury about the 
“ Sali 
-year1720. Ele was educated for is profeffion of a diffent- 
ing minilter at Mr. Grove’s academy, Taunton, and fir 
fettled with a congregation at St. Loo, in Cornw all. From 
this place he removed to Wells, where he was ordained, and p1 
refided fome years. He next went to Honiton, the native 
place of the lady whom he married, and at Luppit, in its 
neighbourhood, he continued to preach till his death. 
became more diftinguifhed as a writer than a preacher, and 
was ei known in that line by an * Account of the Life 
of Peters,’ which he publifhed in 1751, after the 
manner of Bayle. The fa@s contained in this piece are 
chiefly taken from Peters’ dying advice to his daughter. 
This was followed by hiftorical.and critical accounts of the 
lives of James I., Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, and Charles IT. 
printed at different times, between the years 1754 and 1766. 
They confit of ne volumes 8vo. and are written after the 
manner of Bayle, in order that he might have an opportuni- 
ty of Se Hite  aeattces, and to indulge in reflections 
in the notes, “which in the text would have interrupted the 
connection, and been inonfient with the even tenor of i 
rative. ‘he chara¢teriftics r. Harris, as a writ 
ere diligence in pe eee material, exact fidelity in aise. 
as authorities, and impartiality i in flating faéts drawn from 
pet fources, original writers, and ftate papers e 
i Sete — to liberty ; and aed inftance of eine 
nie | government. larris was secret 
in his various Pahoa by Mr. Siowet Holts the enlightened 
and zealous friend to Sarit who, without regar rd to ex- ~ 
pence, liberally eos " him the materials requifite for 
his Sdispoftsond He died at Honiton in the pia 1770. 
The degre of D. a had been conferred upon him by the 
ome 
Effay on Eftablifhments in “Religion,” by Mr. 
who had written, it was fuppofed, under the direétion of 
archbifhop Secker. All Mr. Harris's works have been well 
ents Oo and thofe who differ from him in principles, nea ae 
unt of his spe 8s eed ~~ thf 
soe a her, his 
ever expeig ‘a juit indignation of whatever was bafe an 
difhonourable, by an inflexible integrity, and by a feries af 
gies and benevolent aétions ; his heart was was friendly, and 
his manners marked by franknefs and fimplicity. Monthly 
Magazine, pes Xs 
Har aphy, one of the Ligh) Bon Pscnie 
iflands of at eek oa to Lewis by a 
ow water, and i pesally covered by th br sites and 
a oe plain ex 
3 asa “oe and Chriftian, he was = ditinguihed a4 
TAR 
forming with the iflands to the fouthward a ehain called the | 
« Long ifland,’? upwards of 200 miles in length, and from 
three to 20 in breadth.. On the E. fide thefe iflands, in 
are are si ne mountainous, and on the W. they 
vel, fand y > an koterauly: fertile. Har . 
bat on 
called Ulweal, ciate of accom- 
"The channel on the fouth coatt 4 is na- 
without inhabitants. 
tion oo this and the eokupieng iflands. 
RISBURG, originally Low ifourg, a polt town of 
A ane. and the capital of a mete Pennfylva- _ 
nia, fituated on the N.E. banks of Sufquehanna river. 
pe St he and contains about 400 houfes, a {tone-gaol, 
a an church, and a court-houfe. Its inhabitants 
unt Pts fer: sneifel quantities 
brea hither from ie country above, and_it has manufac 
tures of leather, a. and nails; 107 miles W. of Phila 
phia. N. lat. 40° 16". 
HARRISON, seni in Biography, t m 
ventor and maker of the watch called od “ t Pime- keepers 
for afcertaining the cofign at fea, and alfo of the cots 
iron Pendulum (which fee 3 
tefract, in Yorkhire, in Ae year 1693: 
73 
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when he was only fix years old, his mind was diverted from 
the tedium and pain occafioned by the fmall-pox, 
templating the movements of a watch which w 
open upon his pillow. 
year 1700 to Barrow in Lincolnfhire, 
by the clergyman of the place with 
copy of prefeflor Saunderfon’s Lectures, W 
PE chiefly in 
efcapement and comporind pendulum of his own invention. 
Thefe pieces o nfhip furpafled every thing the: 
he truth one 
kind then made, © fearcety wanderin af 
fecond in a month. Encouraged by this fuccefs he came f°. 
paren et his ony which he “Bi pei to shee cl 
the year 1736 he.vifited the metropolis aga, with 
Gan which? fhewn to the bo of ongitude, W 
him with it to Lifbon to make a trial of its propert 
this fhort vor he correéted the dead reckoning 
and 3a fuecefs which proved the ese 
Se ips ivate sec ieeecniaie taal at length 
is time he went on improvin invention, and 
received the promifed rd oe 1 20,000/. pe an 
