HEN 
918. Having gone through a courfe ef fchool leartiing, 
he went to pur fa ue his maturer ftudies at the univerfity of 
<a He afterwards became matter of t 
1 of Annan, and in 1746 was entered a licenfed preacher 
in io 0a of Scotland. He accepted an invitation 
officiate as paftor to a congregation of diffenters,at Car- 
lifle, in Ghich fituation he continued 12 years, when he re- 
moved in 1760 to a fimilar ftation at Berwick-upon-T weed. . 
Here, to an afliduous difcharge of the duties of his office, he 
united the cultivation of general literature. About the 
year 1763 he turned his thoughts to the compofition of an 
extenfive hiftory o e foon found 
1768, to Edinburgh, where he was ae minifter to the 
New Grey Friars chure fter a few years, he exchanged 
this for the old church, which he pee the reft of his life. 
The degree a dogo 
1770, andin 1774 he w 
the fixth, t ihe 
Money, coin, &c. ; aed the /eventh, p> hiftory of the man- 
hers, &c. of the people of Great Britain. The plan was 
Be new, and it excited much malignant criticifm a a 
‘of his countrymen, who did what they could to 
; but he went on fteadily, and at den th oftablifhed 
putation, and — a very co rable fum as an 
author’s profit. . earl of Mansfield, to whom the o¢tavo 
edition of the mais is dedicated, thought fo highly of its 
eek sag he procured from his majefty, in the year 1781, 
of 100/. per annum for the author, which he en- 
ped tll his cats This hiftory was the principal object of 
Henry’s attention for almoft thirty years of his life. 
His health began to decline as foon as he had_publifhed his 
fifth —— in 1785, but he was not difabled from purfving 
_* He died in the following 
ar of his Est He be- 
pa d p 
a He 
Was publithed in 1793, with a life of the author prefixed, 
which, and the preface to the hitkiungys the foregoing 
re taken ne 
“Haxas, in Geogr 
mountainous — of Vir- 
“bounded N. by. Franklin, cna 5 
. by eet 
by Grifon, | 
18 about 40 miles lon oo and contains fee 
free inhabitants, and sacs 5 farce a ae of Ken- 
tucky, containin ining 3 
faves. — Ali Ifo, a 
cefs "es 
Vou. XVIL county in Vi ste 32. miles 
or 
‘VILL. . 
a5 whom 406. are 
cape which is the N.E. extremity of Prine 
y W. of cape 
‘ HEP 
Charles in Noraiipebl county. Thefe capes form the ee 
trance of Chefape ak bay. -Cape-Henry lies in N. lat.3 
W. long. 76° 
ape, is alfo a cape on the W. coaft of Queen 
Charlotte’s ae in the N. Pacific ocean. N. lat. 52° 53’. 
¥. Testbed 
SDAL E, a town of Ametics, i in the flate of New 
Hamphhire ; “fel mils W.N. olton 
HENSH: s Town, a as of Africa, j in Calbari.* 
n of Pegi mt ‘the 
a of the Forelts 5 12 miles E.N.E. f. 
"HENSLOW aa: a cape on the S. coait of New 
rgia. S. lat. E. long. 160 38. 
HENT TINGS, i A riculture, a term ufed by the far- 
mers for a particular i Br of fowing before the: plough ; 
the corn being cait in a ftraight line juit where the pk ough i is 
to come, is by this means prefently ploughed in. By this 
way of fowing they thin - they fave a great deal fo feed and’ 
other charges, a dextrous boy being as capable of fowing 
this way out a his hat, as ects moit file peat: Piott's 
Hitt. Oxford p- 251. 
Seven is alts aterm ufed by the plou Page ane others, 
to fignify the two furrows that are turn i from one another 
at the Bittosi' i in the ploughing of a ridge. The word | 
f becaute thofe furrows” 
feems to be a corruption of endin 
of make an end of ploughing the ms BG The tops of the? 
ridges nei 2 a —— oe 
HEN D, | in cae See Periventa. 
ENZ 7A AN. See JoAnna 
HEORDPENNY. in ous Old Writers, the: fame with 
pr at firft was called fefcot, and afterwards le 
¥ 
"The word is _— from heorth, focus, a hearth, and pen-" 
ning, denarius, @ penn’ 
HEP, or Hip, na ee Rosa Can 
Heps, or. lips, tem in ee Materia “Medica. 
CONSERVE. 
HEPAR, in Anatomy. See Liver, 
Herdn, in Chemifiry. See ns ER. 
Hepar, Sulphuris. See Suri 
Herar Uterinum, the fame with “placenta, 
git ae ne in Medicin 
See 
er 
8, 
‘5 
o 
BS . 
aS 
accompanied with pain in that organ 
In the fyitem o my ae this conflitutes a ‘genus which 
is fub-divided into eight fpecies, ng to the modifica- 
tion of the difeafe in Pe liver, ‘which ives rife Wie sale 
Hence we have (fpecies 1-) Hepatalgia calculofa, ore 
nating in the violent dittention of the biliary ducts, occa- 
i iasmetek by the paflage of a biliary concretion. or calculys. 
of 5 H. feirrhofas eonnetted with a fcirrhous ttate of the liver. 
H. infardus; from obftruétion in that organ, the Hepatis 
iS fardus ae Juncker and others. Among the other fpecies 
are alfo ae a ferracite and apgfematofa, -arifii ng 
wth, or mere enlargement of tis liver’ in 
See e Sang Nofol. Met 
vn of S 
ie: 
sae in Meikiai from bapa the Snell oe 
thet by which various yt belonging to the we 
