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the pots may be removed to a warmer fituation, and 
plunged into the ground under a warm hedge ; and, if 
the winter fhould prove very fevere, they Ihould have 
fome light covering thrown over the pots, which will 
fecure the feeds from being deftroyed. In the fpring 
the plants will, come up ; therefore, as the feafon grows 
wgrm, the pots may be' removed where they may have 
the morning fun till eleven o’clock; and, if they are 
duly watered in dry weather, the plants will have made 
good progrefs by autumn, when they ffibuld be tranf- 
planted, either into fmall pots, or in a nurfe.ry-bed, 
where in one, or at mod two, years time, they will be 
ftrong enough to plant where they are defigned to re¬ 
main. They love a moift foil, and a ffiady fituation. 
HAM'AMET, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Tunis, on the north fide of a bay, called the Gulf of 
Hamamet, and on the ealt coafc of Tunis: thirty miles 
fouth of Tunis. 
HA'MAN, [Heb, an uproar.] Aman’sname. 
HAMA'RS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
ofFalaife: four leagues and three quarters weft-north- 
weft of Falaife, and four and a half fouth-fouth-weft of 
Caen. . 
HAM'ATED, adj. [hamatus , Lat.] Hooked; fet with 
hooks. 
IIA'MATH (Land of), a part of Phencecian Syria, 
bordering upon the northern boundary of Paleftine, and 
the true limits of the latter on that quarter. In the ■ 
reign of king David it appears to have been an inde¬ 
pendent ftate, and fubjedt to a king named Toi, orTou, 
who was on a friendly footing with David, and who con¬ 
gratulated him on his fucceffes over’his enemies. But 
in the,reign of Holhea king of Ifrael, this country was 
under the dominion of Alfyria; and in the reign of Ze- 
dekiah king of Judah, under that of Babylon; at which 
time Riblah appears to have been its capital. Numb. 
xxxiv.7,8,9. 2 Sam. viii.9,10. 2 Kings, xvii. 24. xxiii. 
33. xxv. 6. 
HA'MATH-ZO'BAH, probably the capital of the 
kingdom of Zobah in Syria; fubdued by Solomon king 
of Ifrael. 2 Qhron. viii. 3. 
HAM'ATHITE, an inhabitant of Hamath. 
HAMAX'IA, in ancient geography, a city of Cilicia. 
HAMAXO'BII, or Hamaxobians,/ [from 
Gr. a carriage, or chariot, and £103, life.] In ancient 
geography, a people who had no lloufes, but lived in 
carriages. The Hamaxobii were an ancient people of 
Sarmatia Europaea, who inftead of houfes had a fort of 
tents fixed on carriages, to be always ready for travelling 
or fhifting their abode, which their paftoral mode of life 
frequently rendered necelfary. 
HAM'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and duchy of Juliers : three miles fouth-eaft 
ofjuliers. Lat. 50. 57. N. Ion.23.38. E. Ferro. 
HAM'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and palatinate of the Rhine : five miles 
north-eaft of Landau, andfixteen fouth-weftot Manheim. 
HAM'BACH, a town of Germany, in,the circle of 
Bavaria, and Upper Palatinate: fix miles north-north- 
weft of Amberg, and three north-north-eaft of Sultz- 
bach. 
HAMBA'TO, a principal affiento, or jurifdidtion, in 
the province of Quito, in Peru. It is iituated in lat. 1. 
41. S. and twelve miles weft of the city of Quito ; and 
has fix villages in its dependence. It contains about 
.18,000 inhabitants, who are moftly employed inweaving 
Huffs, and in knitting. 
HAMB'DEN, or Hamden, a townlhip of the Ame¬ 
rican States, in New-Ycrk diftritt, bounded north by 
land ceded to Maflachufetts,.fouth by the north line of 
Pennfylvania, and eaft by Sidney. Sulquehannah river 
palfes in a weft courfe through both towns. The centre 
of the town lies thirteen miles weft-by-fouth of the 
mouth of Chenengo river. 
HAM 
HAM'BERGER (George Edward), profefior of na¬ 
tural hiftory in the univerfity of Jena, born in that city 
in 1697. After his father’s death, he de.voted himfelf 
to medicine, and in 1721 took tire degree of dodtor of 
medicine. \In 1726 he became profelfor ; and next year 
made known his theory of refpiration, in confequence of 
which he was involved in a literary conteft with the ce¬ 
lebrated Haller. Having_refufed feveral invitations, and 
particularly one to Gottingen, in 1773, which Haller af¬ 
terwards accepted ; he was appointed public profelfor 
of natural philofophy in 1737, and to this office was 
added in 1744 the profelTorlhip of medicine. He died in 
1 753, and is entitled to the merit of having illuftrated 
the dodbrine of philofophy by the mathematics, and of 
having rendered both more popular than they had ever 
before been in Germany. His principal worksare, 1. Ele. 
menta P/iyfces, Mcthodomathematica in ufumAuditorum conferipta, 
fence, 1727, 8vo. cum. fig.' 2.- Dijputatio de Rcfpirationis 
Mechanifmo & Ufu genuino, 1727, 4to. 3. Dijputatio de Ve- 
ncefeElione qualenus Motum Sanguinis mutat, 1729. 4. Pr. I. 
VIII. quibus ad Dubia Halleri contra Mechanifnwm Pefioris motet: 
refpondetur , 1744. 5. Differtationfur le Mecanique des Secre¬ 
tions dans le Corps Humain, Bourdeaux, 1746. 6. De Rcfpira¬ 
tionis Mt chan if mo, una cum Scriptis, quee vel illi oppofita Jiint, 
vel ad hanc Controverf am pertinent, fence, 1748, 4m. cum 
fig. 7 . Continuatio Controverf ce de Refpirationis Mechanifmo , 
Goett. 1749, 4to. 8. Phyfiologia medica, feu de Aclionibus 
Corporis Humani fani Doblrina, fence, 1751, 4to. cum fig. 
9. Methodus medendi Morbos, cum Prefatione de Prefantia Theora 
Hambergeripr# Cceteris, 1763, 8vo. 
HAM'BERGER (George Chriftopher), profelfor of 
philofophy and hiftory in the univerfity of Gottingen, 
born in 1726, at Feuchtwang, in the principality of Anf- 
pach. He ftudied at Gottingen, where he took the de¬ 
gree of mailer of arts in 1751 ; in 1755 he became extra¬ 
ordinary profelfor, and in 1763 was appointed ordinary 
profelTor and fecond librarian. He was an afliduous ftu- 
dent; and to the great lofs of literature died at the early 
age of forty-feven, in February 1773. Ha gave an accu¬ 
rate catalogue of the German authors and of their works, 
under the title of Das gelehrte Deutfchland. This work, 
which wasreceived with high approbation, firft appeared 
in 1767; eonfiderable additions were afterwards made 
to it by the author, in two fupplementary volumes, 
and in 1772 he publilhed an enlarged and improved edi¬ 
tion, in which were included all the German authors 
who had died-between the year 1767 and that period. 
A continuation of this literary catalogue was undertaken 
by profelfor Meufel of Erlangen, who has fince added 
to it feveral volumes. 
HAM'BERGER (John Albert), a German mathema¬ 
tician, born at Beyerberg, in Franconia, in 1662. He 
became profelfor of natural philofophy and of the ma¬ 
thematics in the univerfity of Jena, and died at that 
place in 1716. Among his molt valued productions are 
treadles, 1. De Iride Diluvii. 2. De Opiticis Oculorum Vitris. 
3. De Hydraulica. 4. De Frigore. 5. DeBaf Computi ecclefafi- 
ci, See. 
HAM'BERS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayenne : ten miles fouth-eaft of Mayenne. 
HAMBl'E, a town of France, in the department of 
the Channel : feven miles fouth-eaft of Coutances. 
To HAM'BLE, v. n. [from ham.'J To cut the finews 
of the thigh ; to hamfiring. 
HAM'BLEDON, aplealant town in Hampffiire, with 
a market on Tuefdays, and fairs on the 13th of Febru¬ 
ary, firft Tuefday in May, and the 2d of October. It 
is fimated in a beautiful country, eight miles from Fare- 
ham, thirteen from Gofport, twelve from Portfmouth, 
and lixty-three from London. 
HAM'BLING, f. The act of hamftringing. 
HAM'BURG, a free and imperial city of Germany, 
in the circle of Lower Saxony, and in that part of Hol- 
ftein called Stormar, about fixty miles from the influx 
of the Elbe into the ocean, and fituated on the rivers 
Elbe, 
