HEB ! . 
a alone = not oblige us to receive it as a work infpire a 
by the Deity. Lardner’s Works, vol. vi. Michaelis’ Introd. 
by Mai wa 1s 
HEBRIDES, or Hesvunes, in Geography, the name of 
feveral iflands, fituated inthe Atlan > ocean, on the N.W. 
of Scotland, of which kingdom ae con Rivas an integral 
« Ina geoge. — point, they. arefound to be included 
waitin 56° and 5 atitude, and 5° an of W. long. 
The various inflated traéts of ground and sak of rock, 
wae detached from the main land, are calculated: to amount 
to 300 ; and are {aid to {upport a population of- 48,000 per- 
fons. 'Thefe iflands have at crarico times, and by different 
perfons, been denominated Ebridz, Hebude, and Weftern 
Iflands ; the latter of which is ate matt popular appellation. 
names of the moift confiderable of thefe are Lewis and 
its {aller dependent iflands belonging to me aa ict of Roff- 
e 3; Harris, North Uitt, becula, Uilt, Skye, 
Barca, Figg, attached to the county of a ; Rum; 
Muck, Canna, Call, Tyrie, Mull, Lifinore, Staffa, Lering, 
Seaha, Colonfay, Oranfay, Jura, Ifla, Gigha, Cara, and 
we eet are fubjeé&t to the civil jurifdiction of the flire 
e. Some other iflands, fituated in the frith of 
Chae are alfo reckoned among the Hebrides, and are within 
afew leagues of the coaft of Scotland. : Thefe, called the In- 
Greater 
e reader, af defirous of 
pee aoe on the fubjeet, is referred to Johnfon’s 
‘Tour tothe Weftern Iflands ;’? Bofwell’s “ Journal of a 
Tour to the Hebrides ;”” Martin’s « Defeription of the 
Weltern Iflands,”’ a fearce and interefting work ; Buchanan’ 8 
tent in the Weitern Hebrides from 1782 to 1790 3” 
"s Tours in Scotland ; Mrs. Murrays * Companion 
aif fetal Guide to the Beauties of Scotland.”? But more 
baticularly to Chalmer’s elaborate and interefting work, en- 
Fee ge aledonia,” and Sinclair’s Statiftical Account of 
- Hesrings, or Hebudes, New, a group of iflands in the 
South P; eo ocean, gta?! furveyed, with regard to 
and ‘extent, by Capt. Cook in the year 
17 1" ge orden ifands of this Archipelago were firft 
ps Sagtan by Quiros in 1696, and confidered by him as part 
t the fouthern continent, which at that time, and till very 
te was fuppofed to. exilt, 
Be eyeral new ones, which were not known hefore, 
S. bamedhemthe New Hebrides. Theyare fituated between 
t. 14? 29' and 20° 4', and between E. long. 166 41! 
* res 21', and extend 125 leagues in the direction of 
ae | 
. >W. and §.S.E.1E. The mot northern ifland 
Pees called by M. de Bougainville Peak of the Etoile ; it 
long. 168° g. ng ite his account, in S. lat. 1 > 29’. EB. 
“ee eee i b te north from piece The 
Ss lise 3 : 
ew lies between the.S.E. end of Tierra del 
OP Mb ca and the north end eetincntcs es the 
if sien? itand the latter i a 
oe Pics tes 
which M 
“dat. 15? 5° 48 
= Sha Soe 8 lanes forehe 
NEB 
former and three fromthe na in S.-lat. 15° z2 ‘and near- > 
ly under the fame meridian as the S.E. end of Mallicolle. 
It is ae an egg-like figure, ee 3 or 20 leagues in circuit. 
At the N.E. part there:is anchorage half a ‘mile from the 
land.. Aurora, Whitfuntide, Ambrym, Pacom, and its 
néighbour Apee, Three-hills, and Sandwich iflands, lie all 
nearly under the mer idian of 167° 29! or 30! 
rom the lat. of 14° 51' 30" to 17 24 SD 
N. by W. and S. by E., and in that direction is 11 leagues 
long, and hardly any where exceeds 2 or 2: in breadth. . It 
has a good height, and hilly furface, and is every where co- _ 
vered with wood, except where the natives have their dwell- 
ings and plantations. Whitfuntide ifle, 14 league S. of Au- 
rora, isof the fame length, and lies in the dire@iion of N. 
and S., but is fomewhat “broader than Aurora ifland.. - It is 
confiderably high, and clothed with w ood, except fuch parts 
as. feemed to be cultivated, which were pretty numerous. 
From the §. end of Whitfuntide ifland to the N. fide of Am 
brym is 24 leagues. This iflend is about 17 leagues in cir- 
Cth a jhowes are rather low, but the land rifes toa tolera- 
fioned ~ a volcano. 
inhabited. 
of a round hay i 
joining ifle (af nai are two) cannot exceed three or four 
leagues in any direction ; for the diftance between Ambrym 
arid. Apee is hardly five ; and they he in this fpace, and ow 
from Port Sandwich, diftant about 7 or 8 leagues. The: 
ifland of Apee is not lefs than ap leagoes | in cree Its longelt 
direction is about 8 leagues N. W. an of a conli- 
a height ang has a hilly furface, divextiied with woods 
lawns, cfpecially the W. and S. parts. Shepherd’s 
ifles are a group of ‘forall ones, of unequal fize, extending 
from the $.E. point of Apee about 5 leagues, in the direc- 
tion of S.E. The idland Three hills lies S. 4 leagues from 
the coat of Apee, and §.E. 4 S. diftant 17 leagues from 
Port Gade There is W. by N., 5 miles from the W. 
point, a reef of rocks, on which the he continually breaks. 
Nine leogustes in be. dire€tion of S. from Three-hil Js 1; ies Sand- 
wich i o-hills, the Monument, an fontagu- 
iflands lie to the r. of this line, and Hinchinbrook to the 
W.., asalfo two or three fmall ifles, which lic betweenit and 
Sandwich ifland, to which they are connected by. hreakers,. 
Sandwich iland is 25 leagues in circuit, its greatelt extent 
is ten leagues ; and it, lies in the direction of N. W.. by 
W.and §.E. by. E. The diltance 5 Bog the S. end of. 
y 
s . Mallicollo to the N.W. end of Sandwich ifland i is 22 leagues 
In the fame direétion lie - 
in the. dire@tion of S.S.E. 4 E. 
Erromango, Tanna, and Annatom. The firftis 13 leagues. 
from Sandwich ifland, and is a8 or 2 sy ay in ae 
The middle of it lies in S. lat. 18° 54. E. ° 19's 
and it is of a good hei 
Kage from the S. fide of Erroman ngo, — s. E. : 
E.t E., 4 
_ leagues from poss Refolution in Tanna ; and the ifland of 
Errondn or Foo 
Il leagues. 
oona Eaft, in the fame. direétion, diftant 
“ 
This, ack is the moft eaftern ifland of all the_ 
desea in circuit, of 
the be, 
