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HALLE' (Claude-Guy), a French painter, born at 
rans in 1651. He was educated under his father, a 
r of reputation, and received all his inllruClion i 
rable woods of oaks and birch-trees. The produce of 
corn is not fufficient for the inhabitants, but the rivers, 
which are cohfiderable, abound in fifti, efpecially falmon. 
The inhabitants carry on a profitable trade, in cattle; lit* own country. His genius was, however'; adapted to 
their chief employ is grazing and fiflnng. The princi- the higheft branch of his profeflion, and he diftineuilhed 
pal towns are Laholm, Halmftadt, Falkenberg,'and hindelf by his (kill in the compofition of grand pieces 
Wardberg. His works were chiefly decorations for the churches in 
HAL'LAREN, a lake of Sweden, in the province of Paris and in the provincial towns • thev were of the 
Weftmanland : twenty-fix miles north-weft of Upfal. tranquil caft, which marked his own private character- 
HAL'LATON, a fmall town in the county of Leicef- his pencil was never licentious. He was chofen bv the 
ter, ninety-four miles north from London. It has a mar- king as one of the' artifts for decoratin° the choir of 
ket on Thurfd'ays ; and fairs.on Afcenfion-day, May 23, Notre-Dame. He alfo painted, for a ta°peftrv-defi°n 
and June 13. The celebrated Roman foffe-way pafles the SubmifTion of the doge of Genoa before his majeftv’ 
hence through the north.weft part of this county; but, He died at Paris in 1736, at the a°-e of eiohty-five and 
when it enters Nottinghamfhire, it inclines north-eaft was buried in St. Sulpice. Several of hts works have- 
through the vale of Belvoir, or, as it is commonly defervedly been engraved. 
called, of Bever, to Newark. All this long and ancient HAL'LEBAST, a town of Flanders: three miles 
traCt is dill vifible, though near 1500 years ftanding, fouth-weft of Ypres. 
through a rich and fertile country, having north-eaftward H AL'LEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Ba¬ 
the noble river Trent, for twenty miles together, often varia, and archbiftiopric of Saltzbur^, fituated on the 
in view. Salza ; celebrated for falt-fprings, which rife in the 
HALLE, a town of the Netherlands, in the county of mountain of Durnberg, near the town : 750,000'quintals 
Hainaut, lituated on the river Senne; once ftrongly for- of fait are made every year. It is eight’miles fouth 
tiffed, but the fortifications were deftroyed, with its fouth-eaft of Saltzbiirg, and feventy-two eaft-north-eaft 
gates, in 1677. This town was celebrated fora coftly of Infpruck. 
image of the Virgin Mary, to which were made many H ALLELU'J AH, f. [.n* V^n, Praife ye the Lord 1 
pilgrimages : eight miles fouth-fputh-weft of Bruffelsi 
HALLE, a town of Germany in the circle of Lower 
Saxony, and principality of Magdeburg, fituated on 
the Saale, and divided into four quarters. Here is a 
celebrated univerfity, formed out of a military acade- 
A long of thankfgiving : 
Then fhall thy faints 
Unfeigned hallelujahs to Thee fing,, 
Hymns of high praife. 
Milton. 
my, and confecrated in 1694, where many of the nobi- Singing thofe devout hymns and heavenly anthems, in 
lity, and even princes, have been ftudents. There are which the church.militant feems ambitious to emulate 
three Lutheran churches, with places of worftiip for the triumphant,.and echo' back the folemn, praifes and 
Calviniftsand Roman catholics, and a fynagogue for the hallelujahs of the celeftial choirs. Boyle. 
Jews. The magiftrates enjoy many privileges, and con- St. Jerome firft introduced the word -hallelujah into the 
fiderable pofleflions. The number of houfes which pay church fervice : for a confiderable time it was only ufed 
taxes is about xioo, the number of inhabitants is efti- 
mated at 14,000, exclufive of the ftudents and garrifon, 
Befides the common handicrafts of the town, there are 
feveral manufactures, as gloves, worfted and filk ftock. 
once a-year in the Latin church, viz. at Eafter; but 
the Greek church it was much more frequent. ’ St. Je¬ 
rome mentions its being fung at the interments of the 
dead, which ftill continues 
the interments of the 
be done in that church. 
ings, cloth, flannels, fuftian, linen, china, ftarch, rib. as alfo on fome occafions in the time of Lent, 
bands, red and yellow Turkey leather, &c. The vale HAL'LENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Halle confifts of the loweft part of the town, and °f the Lower Rhine, and duchy of Weftphajia : feven 
lies on the Saale. In it are four rich fait fprings, with miles fouth of Medebach, and fixty-two eaft of Coloo-n. 
numerous work-houfes, where the water from the Saale HAL'LENCOURT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
is boiled, in order to make fait. Thofe for whofe pro- ment of the Somme, and chief place of a canton in the 
fit the fait is boiled are called pfanners, and mull be free- diftriCt of Abbeville : two leagues and a half fouth of 
men of Halle. The boiling itfelf is performed by the Abbeville. 
Hallers, who are defcendants of the Wends, a people HAULER (Albert), an eminent phyfician and bota- 
who in ancient times inhabited this country, and ftill ' nift, born at Berne in October 1708. He was the foil 
retain their drefs, language, and cuftoms. Itistothefe of an advocate of confiderable eminence in his profef. 
falt-fprings that the city of Halle owes its origin, but fion. His father had a numerous family, and Albert 
the particular time is not known. So early, however, was the youngeft of five fons. From the firft period of 
as the beginning of the ninth century, it appears that his education, he evinced a great genius for literature • 
there was fuch a place ; and, in the year 965 or 966, and the accounts of his early difplay of talents are as 
the emperor Otho I. made a donation of it to the extraordinary as almoft any upon record. Even in his 
church at Magdeburg. By the "emperor Otho II, alfo, fifth year he was accuftomed to write down all the new 
it was enlarged, and endowed with a charter. 101414, words which lie heard in the courfe of the day. At 
it was befieged by archbiftiop Gunther II. but not the age of ten he could tranllate from the Greek*; and 
taken: it bought its fafety at that time with a large compiled, for his own ufe, a Chaldaic grammar, and a 
fum of money. In 1435, it was again befieged, in vain, Greek and Hebrew dictionary. He alfo, about that pe- 
by Frederic eleCtor of Saxony ; but, in 1478, was taken nod, abridged from Bayle and Moreri above two thou- 
by archbiftiop Erneft. I11 the fifteenth and feventeenth fand lives ; and he compofed, in Latin verfe, a fatire 
centuries, it frequently underwent the fame fate ; and, upon his private tutor, a man of fingular harlhnefs and 
in 1757 and 1758, being furprifed by the French and feverity. Soon after his father’s death, in 1721, when 
Auftrians, fuffered very fevere exadtions. The regency about thirteen years of age, he was lent to the public 
of the former archbiftiopric, now called the duchy of fchool at Berne, where he exhibited many fpecimens of 
Magdeburg, refided at this place till the year 1714, early and uncommon genius. He was there diftin°uiftied 
when its feat was removed to Magdeburg. It is fifty- for his knowledge in the Greek and Latin languages • 
fix miles fouth of Magdeburg, and twenty-two north- but he was chiefly remarkable for his poetical tenuis* 
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weft of Leipfic. 
HALLE, a town of Germany, in the circle of Well, 
phalia, and county of Ravenlberg : fix miles north-weft 
©f Bielefeld. 
and his eflays of this kind, which were publilhed in the 
German language, were read and admired throughout 
the whole empire. In the fixteenth year of his age he 
began the ftudy of medicine at Tubingen, under thofe 
