ee of 
were a aceogee cities in Laconia; and that each city ufed 
to facrifice r the common fafety of 
the ionieys ieee the inititution of the celebrated facri- 
og of a hundred victims, called hecatombs. Others refer 
origin of hecatombs a8 a plague, per which the hundred 
pe of Peloponnefus were affli r the removal of 
, they jointly contributed to fo fpleadid a factifice. 
Folius Capitolinus relates, that for a hecatomb they ere@t- 
ed a hundred altars of turf, and on thefe facrificed a hundred 
fheep, and a hundred hogs He adds, that when the em- 
perors offered facrifices of this kind, they facrificed a hun- 
dred ae : hundred eagles, and a hundred other beaits of 
the like k 
" HECATOMBON, in Chronology. See Ecatom~ 
ON. 
*"HECATOMPHONIA, “Exaron? ove, at ancient far 
oR among the Meffenians; offered by fuch as had flain 
hundred enemies in battle. 
The 
ill. 
HECATOMPOLIS, in Ancient Ge » an appella- 
tion given to the ifland of Cre rete, Sere Retin tae 
The fame appellation was alfo given to Laconia. 
HECATOMPYLOS, the metropolis of Parthia, and 
royal refidence of Arfaces, fituated at the fprings of the 
Araxes. The fame naine was alfo given to Thebes in 
Egypt, from its hundred gates. 
word comes from jxxrq, a hundred, and Qoveve, to 
HECATONIA, in Botany, is derived from ‘xzrov, an and la 
nh 
undred, * gw Sih ode 
flower produces about an 
h. 3 
naked fee ureir; eae j pation and eae 
Dodecandria Poh, rgynia. Nat. R tty 
Gen. Ch, C. erianth inferior, : five aaa, ; talkies 
ovate, concave, col loured, r reflexed. etals five, ovate, 
ae ee length of the calyx. 
fhaped, ereét, unequ 
lla, ftanding round t afe of an 
gated receptacle ; Anthers ovate, of two cells, upright. 
ae Germens lenticular, about an hundred, placed round 
fame receptacle, ied: is raifed in the thape of a column; 
oe none; ftigma a littl A ay mais point rf the top of each 
rmen. "Pere. none. Szeds lenticular, equal in number to 
the affixed to the ts, eplindeical ea 
~ Ch. ig of five leaves, inferior. Petals five. 
1.H. po ee pod — Leaves wedge-fhaped, fmooth. 
leéted into a cylinder.’’—Found in moift places 
China.—An annual herb. Stem a foot high, 
wg erect, thick, hollow, Ene, {mooth. ves 
w 
as the author aus 
peculiar neétary » with w 
could not be totally yt ae a, 
aECATONSTYLON, ae a in the Ancient Ar- 
a porch with a hundred co This defigna- 
ie, wee. peculiar to the great porch of P Pobipey's theatre 
es dechmcey, in Geography, a town of Swabia, the 
HEC 
refidence of'a prince, which gives name to a. eo of the 
family of Hohenzoliern ; 30 miles S. of Stut 
HECK, among Huj/bandmen, a rack, at whieh fashioeg are 
fed with hay. 
It is alfo ufed as the name of an engine, wherewithal to. 
take fith in the river Oufe. A falmon heck is a grate for the 
canchen§ that fort of ith. See Su/mon-Fisuine. 
nce alfo Heckagium, or Heccagium, which occurs i 
ancient records ae a rent gouge! = lord for the liberty to» 
ufe fuch ~— 
ECKy 7 Reval Economy, a name frequently applied to. 
a fort of “mall or half door, often employ red in* farm 
NECK 
EMP. 
A, or “tna Mount, in Geography, a mountain: 
fituated in the fouthern part of the ifland of Iceland, about. 
four Britifh miles from the fea coaft, above which it rifes to 
the height of about s000 feet. The fummit is covered 
with wereld except fome fpots where the heat predominates, 
On the higheft point, where Fahrenheit’s thermometer was 
at 24° in 7 e air, it rofe to 1 53 > when placed on the ground... 
The barometer ftood at 22 The craters of this vol- 
canic mountain are numerous, fet the eruptions rare; there- 
having been only ten fro 
6 the diftance of 150 miles or 
> miles laid waite by the lava. 1772 Hecla was vifited: 
Dr. Van Troil, a Swedith gentleman, accompanied by 
Mr. Crow, fir Jofeph Banks, Dr. Solander, a nd Dr. James: 
Lind of Edinburgh: ava, which ciety obferved on: 
their firft landing, covered a traét of land Go or 70 miles in. 
extent, and appeared to have been in the highelt ilate of 
liquefaétion. Having travelled 300, or 360 Englith miles,. 
over an uninterrupted traét of lava, in their way tot 
of the mountain, a —— :pleafare of nib — firit who- 
f the mo 
had arrived at be fum 
mit they experienced at med fame cme sigh te © of heat 
and ee the thermometer bei different gre fh 
abo he wind became fo. aa that they ae 
fometimes obliged to lie down for fear of being 
ft recipices, The mo 
of fan 
not a iene The- 
mon lava was fizes; and’ 
likewife. a quantity of black j jal pers burnt at the extremities, 
and trees with branches. - Amon 
e 
Mott kinds of lava found in other volcanic 
untries ate to be fourid about and other Iceland’ 
valoasiitsy: ‘as the _— grey, ee kind, ae 
