H A A 
GYVES,/ Igevy’b Welfh.] Fetters; chains for the 
legs.—The villians march wide betwixt the legs, as if 
they had gyves on. Shake/peare. 
And knowing this, rtiould I yet (fay, 
Like fuch as blow away their lives, 
And never will redeem a day. 
Enamour’d of their golden gyves ? Ben jfonfon. 
H A A 14? 
GYU'LA, or Julia, a town of Hungary, fituated on 
an ifland in the river Kores, with a caftle: ninety-two 
miles weft-fotnh-weft of Coloffvar, and fifty north-north- 
weft of Temefwar 
GZAT, a town of Ruflia, iivthe government of Sirto- 
lenfic : eighty-eight miles caft-north-caft of Smolenlk. 
Eat. 55.34. N. Ion. 53.. E. Ferro. 
T HE FI, in Englifli,. as in other,languages, has the 
eftedt of a note of afpiration, being founded by a 
(trong emiflion of the breath, without any conformation 
of the organs of fpeech; and hence, by many gramma¬ 
rians,, it is laid to be no letter. The li in Englifii is 
fcarcely ever mute at the beginning of a word, or where 
it immediately precedes a vowel ; as houfe, behaviour: 
where it is followed by a confonailt it has no found, ac¬ 
cording to the prefent pronunciation ; but, anciently, 
as now in Scotland, and in fome of the northern coun¬ 
ties of England, it made the fvllable guttural; as right, 
bought. —Nothing^ however, can be more abfurd, than 
to difpute its being a diftinct letter, founded in a parti¬ 
cular and diftindt manner, at leaft in the Englifli lan¬ 
guage : witnefs the words eat and heat, arm and harm, 
ear and hear, at and hat, &c. as pronounced with or 
without the h. In the Latin it never comes before a 
confonant; but always before one of the five vowels 
and y ; as habeo , habeo, hiatus, homo, humus, hydra , 13 c. 
There feems to be no doubt, but that our h, which is 
the fame witli that of the Romans, derived its figure 
from that of the Hebrew n. And, indeed, the Phoeni¬ 
cians, mod ancient Greeks, and Romans, ufed the fame 
figure with our H, which in the feries of all thefe alpha¬ 
bets keeps its primitive place, being the eighth letter. 
H, ufed as a numeral, denotes 300; and with a dafli 
over it, H, 200,600. As an abbreviation, H was ufed by 
the ancient Romans to denote homo, hares, hora, &c. 
Thus H. B. (food for hares bonorum ; and H. S. corruptly 
for L L. S. felterce ; and H. A. for Hadrianus. 
FI A, interjeEl. [ha, Lat.] An expreflion of wonder, 
furprife, fudden queftion or fudden exertion.— Ha! what 
art thou! thou horrid headlefs trunk! It is my Haft- 
ings ! Rowe. —An expreflion of laughter ; ufed with re¬ 
duplication.—He faith among the trumpets ha, ha, and 
he fmelleth the battle afar off. Job xxx ix, 25. 
Ha, ha, ’tis what fo long I wifli’d and vow’d; 
Our plots .and delufions 
Have wrought fuch confufions, 
That the monarch’s a (lave to the crown. Dryden. 
HA-CHAM-POU, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of 
Corea: 657 miles eaft-north-eaft of Peking. Lat. 42. 40. 
N. Ion. 148. it. E. Ferro. 
HAA, a fmall ifland in the North Sea, near the north 
coaft of Scotland : three miles and a half fouth-eaft of 
Farout Head. 
HA'AG, a town of Germany, in the circle of Bava¬ 
ria, and capital of a county of the fame name, veiled in 
the houfe of Bavaria, without the title; but it gives 
the eledtor a feat in the aflemblies of the circle. The 
affeflment was eighty-eight florins,' and the tax to the 
chamber of Wetzlar eighty-one rix-dollars fourteen 
kruitzers : fix .miles north of Wafferburg, and twenty- 
eight eaft of Munich. 
HA'AG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria : eight miles weft-north-weft of Schwanaftadt. 
HA'AG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria : (even miles north-eaft of Steyr, and ten fouth- 
eaft of Ens. 
HA'AG NI'BER, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : eight miles north-weft of Schwana¬ 
ftadt. 
V-ol. IX. No. 573. 
HA'AG, or FIag, a town of.the duchy of Bavaria in 
Germany, feated '011 a hill on the weft fide of the river 
Inn. Lat. 48. 16. N. Ion. 12.23. E. 
HAAN'NO, one of the iflands called Hapaee, in the 
Southern Pacific Ocean, difcovered by captain Cook in 
the year 1777. Lat. 19.41. S.- Ion. 185. 43. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
HA'ARBURG, a fea-port town of Germany, in the 
circle of Lower Saxony, and principality of Luneburg 
Zell, fituated on the Seeve, which runs through it into 
the Elbe. The inhabitants carry on a confiderable trade 
in bleaching wax, refining fugar, manufadturing (larch, 
ribbpns, hats, and (lockings. They fend wood for 
building to Holland, mads, &c. which they fend by 
means of a canal-to the Elbe ; feventeen barges are ap¬ 
propriated for this purpofe, and two fail every day : 
paflage.boats fail from Hamburg every day, with a fixed 
price for paffengers and goods. It is defended by a 
fort between the town and the Elbe. In 1757, it was 
taken by the French, but retaken by the Hanoverians 
the fame year; feven miles fouth of Hamburgh, and 
thirty-two weft-north-weft of Luneburg. Lat. 53. 33. 
N. Ion. 27. 21. E. Ferro. 
HA'ARBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, and principality of Oettingen-Wallerftein, on 
the Wernitz : nine miles fouth of Oettingen, and fix 
fouth-eaft of Nordlingen. > 
HA'AREN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bifliopric of Paderborn: three miles 
north-eaft of Buren. 
HA'AREN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Mark: two miles eaft of 
Hamm. 
HAARKIR'CHEN, a town of Germany, in the arch- 
duchy of Auftria : three miles north of Efferding. 
HA'ARLEM. See Haerlem. 
HA'AS (John Matthew), a German geographer and 
mathematician, born at Auglburg in 1684. Having 
completed the firft part of his education, lie was fent to 
Helmftadt to ftudy theology ; but the mathemathics 
being his favourite purfuit, after defending in a public 
thefis a treadle which he wrote on the geometry of the 
Chinefe, he removed toLeipfic, wherein 1716 he had the 
honourof being admitted a member of the faculty of phi- 
lofophy and mathematics. In 1720, he obtained an ap¬ 
pointment at Wittenberg, where he diftinguiflied him— 
felf by an ingenious and well-written treatife on gua- 
ging, which was publiflied in 1728, under the title ot Do- 
liorum Dimevftones, Jive Pithometria. He now embraced the' 
ftudy of geography, and acquired the greateft celebrity 
by his maps ; the principal objedt of which was to ex¬ 
hibit with more accuracy the (ituation of countries at; 
that time little known. On this account his maps of 
Hungary, Ruflia, China, and. Africa, were much efteem- 
- ed. Bufehing gives them the charadter of being con- 
(trudted with uncommon care and accuracy. That of 
Ruflia, entitled Tabula Imperii Rujfici & Tartaria UniverJ'a, 
excited the aftoniftiment of the Ruffians themfelves ; 
and Bufehing fays, that, in regard to the projection, it 
may v be conlidered as a model. It was received with 
great approbation by the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
at Peterlburgh. Another work, which gained him con¬ 
fiderable credit, was his Defcriptio Geographka 13 Hjlorica 
