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HAH, interjetd. An ex^refllon of fudden effort: 
Her <;oats tuck’d up, and all her motions juft, 
She ftarnps, and then cries hah! at every thruft. Dry den. 
HAHA', /. [from the exprellion of ftirprife at the 
fight of it.] A canal of water, a wall, or fome other 
fence at the fend of a walk, funk deep between two 
dopes fo as to be concealed till you are juft come upon it. 
HAHA', a bay’on the fouth coaft of Labrador. Lat. 
51. N. Ion. 59. 10. W.' Greenwich. 
HA'HAN, a town of Arabia : one hundred miles fouth 
of Cathem. 
HAHN (Simon Frederic), a German hiftorian, born 
1111692, at Bergen, in Hanover, where his father was 
minifter. At a very early age he was a proficient in the 
languages; and when only fourteen, he pronounced a 
Latin harangue on the origin of the monaftery of Bergen, 
which was printed. He foon after.publiffied the conti¬ 
nuation of the Chronicle of Bergen by Meibomius, and 
its charter from Otho the Great. In 1725, he fucceeded 
Eccard as htftoriogra'pher and librarian to the elector of 
Hanover, the duties of which offices he difcharged till 
his death in 1729. Befides various dilfertations on fitb- 
jedls of German hiftory, he wrote, in the German lan¬ 
guage, a Hiftory of the Empire, of which'the firft four 
volumes appeared in 1731. He all'o publiftied ColleElio 
Monitmentorum velerum & recent, ineditorum, 2 vols. 8vo. 
HAHOT. SeeHACHUT. 
HAH'RAS, a town of Egypt: twenty-one miles eaft 
of Tineh. 
HA'I, or A'i. Gen. xii. 8. xiii. 3. See Ai, vol. i. 
HA'I, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in the 
province of Kiang-nan : 310 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Peking. Lat. 34. 32. N. Ion. 134. 40. E. Ferro. 
HA 1 -FONG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chantong:' feventeen miles north of 
You-ting. 
HAl-FONG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Quang-tong: fixty miles eaft of Hoeii 
tcheou. 
HA 1 -MEN', a town of China, in the province of Tche- 
kiang : twenty miles fouth of Tai-tcheou. 
HAI-NAN', an ifland in the Eaftern Sea, belonging 
to China, commencing at its louthern extremity. The 
name of Hai-nan, i. e. the fouth of the fea, expreftes its 
fitiiation. It has been many years annexed to the pro-, 
vince of Quang-tong (which, oppofite to Hai-nan, juts 
far fouth in a peninfulated form), and is diftant above 
twelve miles from the fea-ffiore ; it is one hundred and 
fixty leagues in circumference, and produces every thing 
that can conduce, to the wants and conveniences of life ; 
the climate alone is bad, by reafon of the crude quality 
•of the water. The ifland abounds with gold of a fupe- 
rior quality; but, as it has been but Half conquered, 
that valuable metal is chiefly in the power of the na¬ 
tives, a brave, independent, people, who live in the 
middle parts, amidft inacceffible mountains; the reft of 
the country being a plain. The aboriginal inhabitants 
had for a long time a traffic with the Chinefe: one of 
reputation was deputed to examine the goods offered; 
while on the other part a Chinefe merchant went to fee 
thofe of the mountaineers; and the utmoft honour was 
obferved on both fides. The Chinefe, efpecially the 
governor, made immenfe profit of the gold. This the 
emperor Kang-hi difeovered, and put a final flop to an 
advantageous commerce, which till then had been al¬ 
lowed by law. The lapis armerius, which produces 
blue fo much in requeft for colouring the porcelane, 
abounds in this ifland ; and much of it is fent to Can¬ 
ton for that manufactory. The fiffieries are here very 
lucrative ; from twenty to thirty thoufand-junks, of no 
inconfiderable fize, come annually from Canton to take 
in cargoes of the dried or failed fffli. Our Englifh Eaft- 
India company’s fliips now and then put in here, and 
may be fecure during the monfoons. 
The natives of this ifland are'fmall of ftature, and of 
Yol.IX. No.374. 
1'Hl 
a capper colour : both men and women wear their hair 
turned through a ring on their forehead ; and above 
they have a fmall ftra.w hat, from which hang two firings; 
that are tied under the chin. Their drefs confiftsofa 
piece of dark-blue cotton cloth, which reaches from the 
girdle to their knees: the women have a kind of robe;, 
of the fame; fluff, and mark their faces from the eyes to 
the chin with blue ftripes, .made with indigo. Befides- 
mines of gold and lapis-lazuli, which enrich the ifland 
of H.ti-nan, it produces in abundance various kinds of 
curious and valuable wood. The predeceflbrs of; the 
prefent emperor caufed Lome of it to be tranfported to 
Pe-king, at an immenfe expence, to adorn an edifice 
which lie intended for a riiaufoleum. The mod valuable 
is called, by the natives hoali , and by the Europeans 
rofe-wood, from its fmell ; it is very durable, and of great 
beauty ; it is therefore referved for the ufe'of the em¬ 
peror. The egle-wood, fo much prized by the orien¬ 
tal ills-, grows in abundance here. See the article Eg le, 
vol. vi. p.287. Hai-nan, on account of its fituation, 
riches, and extent, may be ranked among the moft con- 
fiderable-iflands of Alia. Lat. 18. 15. to 20. 2. N. Ion. 
125. 50. to 128. 5. E. Ferro. 
HAI-NHING', a town of'China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Tche-kiang : twenty miles north-eaft of 
Hang-tcheou. 
H AI-TAN-CHING', a fmall ifland, near the ceaft of 
China, about eight leagues long, and one and a half 
broad. Lat. 25. 35.N. Ton. 137. 23. E. Ferro. 
HAI-TCH 1 N', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of l'o-kien : twelve mile? fouth-eaft: of 
Tchang-tcheou. 
HAI-YEN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of. Tche-kiang: twenty miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Kia-hfng. 
HAJATOU' KIA'MEN, a poft-town of Chinefe Tar¬ 
tary. Lat. 45. 46. N. Ion. 140. 5. E. Ferro. 
HAICH AN-TA'O, an ifland in the Chinefe Sea, near, 
the fouth-weft coaft of Corea. Lat. 34. 30. N. Ion. 142. 
18. E. Ferro. 
HAICH'B ACH, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : four miles north-north-weft of Efferding. 
HAI'DECK, a town of Germany, in Bavaria: twenty 
miles fouth of Nuremberg. 
HAI'DING, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : four miles fouth of fifferding. 
HAIE,/ A net to catch rabbits. Ainfwortii. 
HAIE,/ [French.] A hedge; a fence. Chaucer. 
HAI'FAR, a town of Paleftine, near the coaft of the 
Mediterranean, at the foot, of Mount Carmel, and on 
the fouth fide of a bay oppofite Acre. It has no har¬ 
bour, but tolerable good anchorage. Here are the ruins 
of a caftle and two churches; ot the latter one ferves 
for a magazine, and the other fora caravanfera. It is 
five miles fouth-eaft of Acre. 
HAI'GERLOCH, a, town of Germany, in the circle 
of Swabia, and ebunty of Hohenberg : thirty-two miles 
fputh-fouth-weft of Stuttgard, and forty-four fouth-eaft 
of Stralburg. 
HAIL,/ [bagel, Sax.] Drops of rain frozen in their 
falling. Locke. 
Thunder mix’d with hail. 
Hail mix’d with fire, muftrendth’ Egyptian Iky. Miltort. 
Halftones affume various figures, being fometimes 
round, at other times pyrarrfidal, debated, angular, 
thin, and flat, and fometimes ftellated, with fix radii* 
like the fmall cryftals of fnow. It is very difficult to ac¬ 
count for the phenomena of hail in a fatisfaftory man¬ 
ner; and there are various opinions upon this head.. 
Signior Beccaria attributed the formation of hail to elec¬ 
tricity, and fuppofes that it is formed in the higher re¬ 
gions of the air, where the cold is intenfe- and where 
the elebtric matter is very copious. In thefe circum- 
ftances, a great number of particles of water are brought 
near together, where they are frozen, and in their de- 
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