HER 
or'at the will of the lord: but which fine feldom exceed two 
years rent. Land thus held, fells at about fix years pur- 
chafe under the price of freehold. ‘The common extent of 
farms is from 1 oo acres; though there are many 
corner 
Rickman 
Woods and copfes. 
ie chiefly turnpike, leading directly from the metropolis : 
crofs-roads partake i 
faufagtures of the county are thofe of cotton and filk ; the 
ormer is princi : : ° 
for bonnets, &c. 
ble ; 
twelve or fifteen weekly; and the 
ate @ guinea, or even twenty-five fh 
pare oty 3 it ent 
: aad Buckinghamfhire about two miles above 
ip ad oan rivers in Hertfordfhire, are the Lea 
Quin, the Beane, the Gade, 
T Meufe, ‘and the Mime Maran. 
ve Buntingford ; and falls into the Lea between 
throw} we Ware. The Beane rifes near Cromer, flows 
Res tigre saad ark, and meets with the Lea at Hertford. 
he : 1s forme un ion ftreams; 
in the vicinity of North Mims. The New Rivers 
middle nature between w 
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and fupplying .. 
HER 
the greater part of the metropolis with water, has its fource 
at the village of Amwell in this county. At this place 
feveral {prings are collected into a large deep refervoir, and 
by means of flood-gates an uniform and regular ftream of 
water is conveyed into the channel. On a large ftone aré 
infcriptions, ftating that the courfe of the river is forty miles, 
and that it was opened in 1608. It was not carried to Lon- 
don till the year 1613. In its courfe to the metropolis it is 
conveyed acrofs two vallies, by means of lofty, artificial em- 
bankments, and at Iflington it pafles, in a fubterraneous 
channel, for 200 yards. At Sadler's Wells it terminates in 
a large pool or refervoir, where a great number of iron pipes» 
branch off in different directions, to convey the water under 
ground, to various parts of the town. This great and im- 
portant undertaking was almoft wholly effedted b 
Mr. Hugh Middleton, citizen and gold{mith, who im- 
poverithed himfelf in profecuting the fcheme. ( Bray-- 
ley’s *¢ London and Middlefex, 8vo., 1810, &e. cott, in 
<¢ —_____. From Chadwell’s 
To London's plains, the Cambrian artift 
His ample aqueduct 
pool” 
brought 
—___——___—__——— Our mercenary ftream,- 
No grandeur boalting, here obfeurely glides 
O’er grafly lawns, or willow fhades. 
As through the human form, arterial tubes 
Branch’d every way, minute and more minute, » 
The circulating is Se fluid extend ; 
So, pipes innumerable to peopled ftreets, 
Tranfmit the purchafed wave.” 
HA, or Hertuvs, in Mythology, a deity wor- 
This is mentioned by 
Voffius conjectures that this g 
was more probably Terra, or the Earth (fynonymous with ° 
Cybele); becaufe the Germans ftill ufe the word ert for the - 
earth, whence alfo the Englith earth. Some have fuppofed * 
that Stone-henge was a temple confecrated to the goddefs-* 
by Avicenna and Serapion to the grain called 
much in medicine in their time, 
heat and bar: 
RTIUS, Joun Nicnoras, 
The ki 
eo Antique Germ ‘ 
HERTZBERG, or Hinzrenc, m Geography, 2 town ° 
miles S. E. of Wittenberg. N: lat. 51° 42’. 
i Alfo, a town of Pomerelia ; ‘11 miles . 
‘3 13° i  — 
a town 
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contains 2,785, 
territory of $74 
