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HERBORN, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 
pial of Naffau Dillenburg, with a — fituated on 
‘the Dille.. The chief manufacture i is that of iron; ‘3 miles 
S.S.E. of Dillenburg. N. lat. 50° 34’. EL long 
HERBOSUM PEAS aoe name of a iicias ae lel 
much efteemed and u the ancient archite&is and 
flatuaries. It was of a “beaurifal green colour, but had al- 
ways with it fome caft of yellow. It was dug in the quarries 
of Taigetum, but was efteemed by the workmen the fame in 
all refpectss except colour, with the black marble dug at 
Tenarus in Lacedemonia, and thence called the Tznarian 
marble. 
HERBSLEBEN, in , ee a town of Boag oa! in 
the principality of Got N.E. of G 
HERBST, Jouy Aa in Rigas hy, an eminent 
ractical and theoretical German mufician, who flourifh 
fh the 1 aut century, was born at Nuremberg. In the year 
1628 he was appointed chapel-matter at Frankfort on the 
Maine, and continued in that ftation till 1641, when he was 
called to the fame office at Nuremberg. owever, in 1650 
he thought fit to return to Frankfort, at the folicitation f 
the magiltrates and others his friends ; and, being by them 
reinftated in his former dignity, he continued in that ftation 
till the time of his death, in the year 1660. He was excel- 
lently fkilled in the theory of mufic, aud in the art o 
practical compofition had few equals; and was, befides, like 
mott e Germans, a found and judicious organift. In the 
year 1643 he publifhed, in the German language, a book 
entitled “ Mutica Poetica;’’ and, ten years after, a tranflation 
_ either from the Latin or the Ytalian. for it is extant in both 
satay Soci the “Arte prattica e poetica of Giov. Chiodino,”” 
en books. was alfo the author ofa ae entitled 
talian manner of finging. His other works are, a {ma 
trac on Thorough-bafs, aad a difcourfe on pgs i 
containing dire€tions for compofing “a mente 
OF his mufical shah Gous all that are sak in print ae, 
* Meletemata facra Davidis,”’ and * Sufpiria S. Gregoril ad 
Chriftum,” for three voices. Thefe were printed 1 in 1619, as 
was alfoa Pa ies compofition by him for fix voices. Draud. 
Bibl. Claff. p. 1649. and Walther. _ 
HERBSTEIN, in Geography, a town ya Germany, in 
the bithopric of Fulda ; 13 miles W. of Ful 
HERCAJADA, a re of Spain, in at province of 
Leon 3 30 miles W. at ila. 
ERCINIAN, or Haseveian foreft, a foreft which 
frei extended over the face of Germany, pani 
at the limits of the Helvetii, Nametes, and ci, and 
running . along the Danube to the orders of the acs and 
Anartes.. It is now cut coe in a places, and Beg ai 
names ; as, t 
» which encompafik 
= called Hercinia ‘hye and the Hartz, 1 in, Lunenburgh. 
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the fief year of the empire of Titus, or the ygthof tie 
Chriftian era, and wont rendered famous on account of ee 
curious monuments of antiquity difcovered in its ruins ; 
account of which =e been publifhed by order of the king of 
Mines: 3 ina work of fix volumes folio 
e epocha of the foundation of: “Herculaneum is uns 
known. Dionyfius Halicarnaflenfis ce that . may 
be referred to fixty years before the war of ‘Troy, or abo 
1342 ab before Chrift ; and, shicdesose: that it laited about 
1400 
Hesculsieus and Pompeii, which latter town was deftroy# 
‘ed at the fame time with the former (fee a erieeh ), ftood once 
above ground 5 
lefs than 70 
ite furface rok ies eects ; and the latter is buried 10 or 
12 feet deep, more or le!s.) Whatever matter, therefore, 
lies twee thefe cities and the prefent furface of the earth 
ver them, muft have been produced fince the year 79 of = 
Chriftian the date of that formidable eruption by w 
they were deftroyed. It appears, by hevitionnof | of fir 
William Hamilton (Phil. Tr nse vik Ixi.), that the matter 
which covers the ancient town ercu aneum is not t 
produce of one eruption only ; a there are evident marks 
that the matter of fix eruptions has taken its courfe over 
that which lies immediately above the town, and which was 
the caufe of its deftruétion. Thefe flrata are either of lava 
or burnt matter, with veins of good foil between them. “The 
ftratum, fays this writer, of erupted matter that immediately 
covers the town, and with which the theatre and mott of t 
houfes was filled, is not of that foul: vitrified matter called: 
i e sete of its 
face remains, he fays, to this day-in the tufa, and 
as a mould for a cat in plailter of Paris, being as nate as, 
any mould he ever faw. This foft matter has been the means. 
of preferving the pictures, MSS., butts, utenfils, and’ other 
antique remains, which have is ag tae out of Hercu- 
laneum from cad deftruction r if any of the: fix 
ceeding eruptions had happe pened aevibad to t 
red-hot liquid si of which they Bic nai had: flov ed into 
the open city, it wou uld have filled e frettsdeonched up: 
every pomeet ne serene with ‘alent hea n the 
honfes and all they contained in one folid a of-lava, un- 
diftinguithable, a and for’ ever infeparable —_ it. ye aa 
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HERCK, a town of France in the department of the : 
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Haifa a a ae a snsee 50 in 3 “the at century. any sent nes Mere poet that the: 
babienat, on a territory. of 1424 Kilometres, com. hafts, ftatues, and pictures of Aapchlaneuen jad ie 2 muchs 
Y 4 a ter chance than the perfons — ee pees ie te: 
, in, within a ears upon t ace this g 
cHERCULANEUM » si tame ok mage sncint ely pe The mk: fciokoe of this fubterraneous a was not: 
Boris “rc nwas deitroyed, by an erupt iapdss pba oll abe gra. a73 Se when wos apceataly epeered: 
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beem actually | built 
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