NY A; 
HEYTESBURY. See Heiteneny: 
- HEYWOOD, Joux, m Biography, 3 an Enghih poet, 
was born in London, and educated_at Oxford, He is men- 
tioned as one who. firlt wrote plays i in our nag ate and i . 
faid to have been exceédingly filled in mufic. He was a grea’ 
favourite with Henry VIII. and queen Mary, but on ia 
_acceflion of queen Elizabeth he went to Mechlin, | where he 
- died in 1565. His princi pal performance is entitled t 
& Spider and Fly, a Parable, ** publifhed in 4to. THis fon, 
Ellis Heywood, became aJefuit, wrote a book in the Fislian 
language. entithed s©T] Moro,’’ and died at Louvain in 
7 a 
STTEZ. ZAREE, in Gevgraplyy 2 a river of Todi, the fame 
with that of Cabul 
- HHABB, in > ifodern “iflory, i isa name which the Ma- 
hometans give to one of the officers of their mofques, an- 
fwering to our curates 
 HIA-LOUI, in Geography, a city of China, of the 
fecond rank, in Quang-li. . lat. 22° 54'. E. long. 106° 
M-HO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pe- 
tehe lig ; 26 miles E.S. E. of Peking. 
_HIANG-NING, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Chan-fi; 37 miles W. of Pin-yang. 
- HIANG-OU, a city of China, of the lane rank, in 
Quang. -fi. N. lat. 23° 10'. E. long. 1 
AO-FONG, a town of —- E te third rank, in 
che kisoe 5 10 miles S, S. W. 0 
AO-Y, a town of China, of oe nye drank, in Chan-fi; 
10 miles E. of Fuen-tcheou 
HIAO- rae Nese a town e China, of the third rank, in 
ee ee ;-25 miles S. S. W. of Te-nghan 
~~ HILAsPETIE, . sa of Chinefe-Tartary:. N. lat. 40° 
se E. ‘se 117°3 
HIA-QUI, a jaw of New Mexico, between Mayo 
(vow Oftimuri) and aa which is confidered by fome as 
a diftri&t of New Navarre ; it deri ives its name from ait of 
ike river which waters se Its chief town is Riochic 
oe 
neighbourin 
the extenfive province of Tauramara, it leaves or pervades 
ain of mountains, running about ‘bale its courfe 
e remainder 
Somards.. the S. W., entering the gu i 
re. of, Huiribis, where 1s a nn aoe ie neareft 
r tland, at the mouth of the gulf of Horfens. 
<a seis ie E. long. 10 
OTOMTELIOM, a Chinefe name, expref- 
ing a. arate root of which is faid to change, at a certain 
time, into a worm. M. Reanmur has given it the name of 
planie ver in the French, but he has oe error of 
‘fuppofing fuch a transformation : the whole tru of the cafe 
being, that a certain caterpilar, when about to phere into 
2 chryfatis ftate, fo nicel joins itfe elf to the root of this 
“as to appear a part o: it. 
ys in ee te a a country of Africa, fituated on 
Fezzan 
SHIATCHE, a city of China, of. the fecond rank, in 
- lat. 22° 10. E. long. 106: 20’. 
HEA-TE IN, a kone Chine, of the-third ~- in Chang- 
‘tong j pur aa W. N. W. of Cao-tang, © 
ad 
New Mexico, which is a large and fertile 
the vallies of that di 
new and accurate fe€tion acrofs it, 
HIA 
_ HIATICULA, in Ornithology, the fealark, See Cua, 
RADRIUS Hiaticula, 
‘ HIA-TIEN, in Geography, a town of+ China in Pe- 
ties faid to contain 80,000 inhabitants; 25 miles E. af 
Peki 
HIATSTOWN, a town of America, in Middlefex coun« 
y New Jerfey; 17 miles S. W. from Bru 
HIATULA, i in ely See Siaiee "Fiatula, 
ATULA is alfo a name by which Gaza, and fome other 
cats have called the fhell-fth more peaallys names Chama ; 
or in Sakae fubitances. 
US, a Latin term, =e agaist ing the apers 
ture of the mouth, from the verb Aiare, to 
It is varioufly u fod, in works of iA ee to denote 
a cha/m or gap; particularly in verfes, where there is a clafh- 
ing of vowels, by one word ending with a vowel, and the 
following one beginning with another : « 
As in—* Tho’ oft the ear the open vowels tire.’ “ 
This cla athing of vowels, fo difagreeable to thes ear, 18 
‘called a hiatus in profe as well as verfe. ‘The Romans were 
fo very careful to avoid it, that they always fuppr effed the 
a vowel even in profe; as it is obferved by Cicero 
n his Orator. In writing, to avoid it, they ufed to infert 
os letter d: as in redeo, redamo, mederga, &c. Hence, 
on the bafe of the Duilian column, we meet with ‘sma 
alted. marid. &c. Vofl, . 
Hiatus is alfo. ufed for a defeét ina manufcript COPY 
where oe is loft or effaced by the injuries of time o 
otherw 
Ina Eeutrical piece, 
fcene is-not wi conneé sone es - next, 
—— 
In matters of ge ology cate is an interruption in a ae 
or feries of defcendants. 
‘Hiatus, in Geology, is aterm ufed by ay V 
a Nat. Hitt. of the Earth,” Pp. 117+ 135+ 137, Ke. & 
= ms, which, — to his theory, sa 
r hquakes which preceded the 1 Nea a 
there is faid to be a bistia. me A a 
but leaves the action 
he abyfs were forced up, ‘by the preffure of claftic fluids gene- 
tral. 
vated by central fires. 
Mr. Whitehurft, in his ‘¢ Enquiry 
concerning the Earth,” fu 
2d edit. pofes fimilar _ 
fifures, which he calls gulfs, to have occupied the hottonke 
and into which the matter excavated to 
aw filled up thefe gulfs, 
e been “ many hundreds _ 
of miles deep.’’ M.De Luc, § ais; of his « Treatife on® 
> has recourfe to fimilar openings or inte 
between the maffes of ftrata, which, according to bis theory, 
: i ular motion formed the vallies. 
The recent and minute examination of Derbyfhire and atts 
environs, by Mr. Farey, (fee his Report on Derby thire,) 
thews, beyond the poffibility of doubt, that the bottoms of 
the many vallies in that diflri& are whole ae unbroken, and 
that the hiati of Whitehurft or De Luc 
ftridt; and that che: 
Tor, in particular, wich Mr. W. ’ 
fubfidence and angular motions of the a cau ss he M. 
fio is_ fhew 
De Luc’s principles, was not fo pe sd Philofophical 
Magazine, vol. 3h Pp- 36. : HIBBE RT 1A, 
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