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# town in Cumberland c 
‘town i in 'Tollau 
‘the natives an ee udtio 
LICOLLO sp TAN 
r 
shence called Kirjath-arba, or Arba’s city, (Jofh. xiv. 15.) 
HEB 
of a good height, with a’ hilly: ‘furface. For an-account of 
ons of thefe iflands, fee Ma.- 
_ Cook’s Second i , Ol. Hh 
HEB 
ray an ancient gia carne in Dalcihine; and 
which name was afterwards .changed .into that of Hebron. 
‘Seme have fuppofed that Caleb, having conquered this city, 
gave it the name of one of his fons; whilft others think that 
at was more ancient, and that Caleb gave to his fon the name 
“of this celebrated place. It was fituated on an eminence, 
les . f Beerfheba 
chpelah. (Gen. xxiii. 7, 8, 9 8 city 
-was allotted to Judah; aa affigned to Caleb foe ihpelalice. 
(Joth. xiv. 13) 1a firft took it and flew its king; 
(Jomh. x. ut Caleb again conquered it. 1t was 
appointed ra a Sealing of the prieits, and a city of refuge. 
David, after the death of ‘Saul, made it the feat of his kin 
dom. During the Babylonih captivity, the Edomites tick: 
‘ait, and there: efaie ofephus makes it a part o m. 
(ir re igen ots un, is ftillin being; fituated, aly oe 
pt, — vol. ii.) feven leagues to the S. of 
Rowenta * Bees rabs call this village, for fuch i is its 
prefent flate, ¢ Bey * the Well-beloved, which is the 
epithet they ufually apply to Abraham, whofe fepulchral i 
grotto they till —— It is feated at the foot of an emi- 
which a ay are miferable ruins, the remains of 
~ he adjacent country is an oblong hol- 
r fix leagues in length, agreeably varied by 
rocky hillocks, groves of fir-trees, ftunted enon ~ a few 
plantations of vines and olive trees, ‘The not ufed 
‘for wine, which is prohibited by the no 2s, Somos ik dried 
for raifins. ‘The peafauts cultivate cotton, which is fpun by 
their wives, and fold at abate and Gaza. They have 
e kali for which they pur- 
oO 
{0 arm red men, who adhere to the fac- 
Mon “i ad and are Pibe perpetual enemies of the people of 
Bethlehem. This part of the country is in ap a conti- 
nual ftate of sas depredation, and anar chy. 
Hesxron, in Geography, a town of America, in Grafton 
county, New pratt Secs 281 inhabitants. Alfo, 
; on the N. E. fide of 
Little “ae ang chet eens orated in-17923 35 miles N. by 
W. of Portiland.—Alfo, a gregh et in Wafhington Wiese 
ork, sean 2528 inhabitants.—Alfo, a poit- 
ween Lebano 
on and 
1757, a 
fituated 16 miles from Litiz, which is 70 wiih northerly 
from Philade Iphia. 
_HEBRUS, in Ancien Geogr. 
sr the largeft river of 
ount “Scom 
running into two 
Pinkerton to that part of the Atlantic, which — ties 
tween Scotland and the extreme en of the He nn 
Exebuce, from Barra to: Lewis 
- of a hundred beatts of the fame kind. 
county, Connecticut, fettled in 1704, and: ° 
c Tahete Srey unite. " 
o th : 
HEC 
HECATE, in Mythology, a ome of the infernal Diana, 
‘reprefented with all the charaéteriftics of fury, holdin ins 
‘flruments of terror “ her Sgr and Seating —e % 
-or fwords, or ming: Under this 
er fhe was exhibited with = es bodies, and Favoked 
in inchantments. Vofs, in the firft volume of the 
* Nova Aéta Soc. Lat. Jenenfis,"’ endeavours to as the 
70 or g, or even he 100; that, Tovah the name of Hecate 
is often ufed for Selene, ares 
find a triple Selene, or Perfeph 
Artemis mentioned ; and that frequently by the-fide of He- 
cate, an etvinrn path is introduced, and likewife hice awe 
HECA 
* 
“ 
Willd. ‘Sp Pl. v. 4 §13.—Clafs and order, Monacia Me 
nadelphia. Nat. ag Euphortia. 
Eff, , Calyx in ‘five deep fegments. Corolla 
none. Anthers dae 
Female, . Fred in Sve Dies fegments. 
Style one. Sti three. Berry with three feeds. © 
1. H. oppof fitefolia. Willd —Aubert Hitt. Inf. Afr. 28. 
— Leaves of the branches oppofite, o: or ea, togethers 
ofe panicles.” 
Corolla. none. 
ts 
the ‘floral ones alternate. 
—Native of Madagafear. or caves twe 
inches long, entire, veiny, abrupt, with wel heath under- 
neath at the bafe. avers eg a in a corymbofe manner 
the corymbs linet Picked, leafy : 
z. H. alternifolia. Wille. a ‘Leaves alternate. Flowers 
in clnflers, ?__Native of the fame ccuntry. It differs prise 
cipaily in having eae larger, as well as es — Bs 
and racemofe flowe Aubert as above quo 
HECATOMB, Hucatomex, in Ati =F acrifice 
lad fled at 7 altars) 
See: fey 
Be, bullock, Ses Ou sick footing the ai fho 
facrifice of a hundred bullecks. derive 
% hes was of no importance 
what eer a of. beatts. we Hee chofen for victims, provided t es 
uota of feet were but had. soonle: ; 
: thagoras. is faid to have sees et te the 
Mutes, ofa eee oxen, in joy at wh Ate of the: 
covering the demonitration of the at propotton the 
fel iock Af Saal ; viz. that in a rectangled triat ob the: 
iquare of the hypothenufe is equal to the fquares 
- other fides. 
For the origin’ of hecatombs, ‘Strabo relatesy. i = 
