H-E R 
Bengalee. 2. A courfe to illuftrate the hiftory, cuftoms, 
and manners of the people: o ia.—IT. Mathematics and 
natural philofophy. 1. A courfe of praétical inftruGtion, 
“in the elements of Euclid, algebra, and trigonometry ; on 
the moft ufeful properties of the conic feétions, the nature 
of oo and the principles of fluxions.- 2. A courfe 
Greece, more particularly the hiftoriansand orators. 2. A 
courfe of le&tures on the arts of reafoning and compofition, 
and fuch fubjeéts as are generally underftood by the *¢ belles 
‘lettres.’ The Englifh language, and the merits of its 
. moft approved writers, are prominent objets in thefe letures. 
The ftudents in this department are exercifed in fuch fpecies 
_ of compofition as are appropriate to their future occupations. 
IV iftory, anh weg: economy. 1. Ac 
olit 
bey ts. and . aw, 
of lectures on 
the purpofe of military education, may be found in the Eaft 
India Regifter for 1811. ; 
Among the feats in the vicinity of Hertford is Balls, the 
property of the marquis T m it was 
“quea 
Haviten: efq. and wife of ‘Charles, lord vifcount Townfhend, 
fir John Harrifon, knight, who, 
church. joining to Balls, 
ury, the feat of — Morgan, 
1; 18 miles N.N 
_ HERTFORDSHIRE, a midland 
is furrounded by Middlefex, Buckinghamfhire, Be 
Cam ire, and Effe 
_ £re to the Roman i » this diftri& was chiefly 
flefled by the Caffi, or Catieuchlani; whofe foverei 
Moaghashi, Std 
onsagainft 
value of 7o000/. Several others are ave 
HER 
n the 
Cefarienfis ; but after the conqueft of the ifland by the 
axons, this. county was divided between the Eaft Saxon 
and Mercian kingdoms. The principal Roman ftations, 
either in or connected with this country, were Durocobrivis ; 
Verulamium, or Verulam ; and Sullonice, or Brockley hills, 
the latter, however, are chiefly in Middlefex: that the 
Romans had other, though probably lefs important {tations 
within its limits, is evinced by remains that are yet difcover- 
able, or by antiquities that have formerly been found. The 
principal ancient roads which interfe¢ted Hertfordthire, were 
the Watling-ftreet, the Icknild-way, and the Irming, or 
Ermin-ftreet. 
Hertfordfhire extends in its longeft direQtion thirty-fix 
miles ; its general breadth is about twenty-fix miles ; and 
its circumference. between 130 and 140 miles, Its fuper- 
<2) 
accurate. The county is divided into eight hundreds, which 
contain two boroughs, feventeen other market towns, an 
134 parifhes : the number of houfes, according to the . 
pulation return in 1801, amounted to 18,172 ; that of inha- 
y3 , 
ounds ftretches out from the neighbourhood of King’s 
Pangtey towards Berkhampflead and Tri 
include fome extenfive profpeéts. f the county 18 
inclofed; and the inclofures, being principally live hedges, 
intermixed with flourifhing timber, have a verdant a 
pleafing effegt. Independently of the wood thus diftribute 
in hedge-rows, large quantities of very fine timber are Stale 
in the parks and grounds belonging to the numerous feats 0 
the nobility and gentry, that are {pread over almoft every 
a of the county. 
ing this Se 4 uy pe ie rome 
and by attraétin at numbers of wealthy perions _ 
chafe bids for peattaae villas; this has multiplied eftates 10 
a Frechold eftates 
have of late fold at twenty-five and twenty-eight bent 8 te s 
chafe ; and under particular ct g¢ 
ally traéts have obtained from thirty to thirty-two bgt De 
; > 0 
d at from 3000 
below that fum, they my. 
to 4000/., more at 2000/.; at 
e met with of almoft every amount. A. large por 
county is held by copyhold tenure, with 4 fine certaidy 
