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HAN 211 
Lift’ning their fear, I could not fay Amen, 
When they did (ay God blefs us. Shake r pearc. 
HANG'MAN’s POINT, a cape of Ireland, at the en¬ 
trance of Kinfale harbour : two miles fouth of Kinfale. 
HA NG'N.EST,./. A bird fo called from the manner 
ip which it builds its ned. 
HAN1EL', [Hebrew] A man’s name. 
HANK,/ [hank, Iflandic, a chain or coil of rope.] 
A ikein of thread. A tye ; a check ; an influenc'd.—Do 
we think we liave the hank that fome gallants have on 
their trufling mercliants, that, upon peril ofjlofing all 
former fcores, he mud (fill go on to fupply > Decay of 
Piety. 
To HANK'ER, v.n. [hankeren , Dut.] ,To-long.im- 
portunatelv ; to have an incedant wirti ; it has commonly 
after before the tiling defined. It is fcarcely "fifed but in 
familiar language.—Among women.and children, cafe 
is to be tak'en that they get not a hankering after juggling 
adrolpgers and fortune-tellers. L'Ff range. 
And now the faints 'began their reign, 
For. which th’ had yearn’d fo long in vain, 
And felt fuch bowel hankerings, 
To fee an empire all of kings. Hudibras .. 
H ANlt'ERING, f A longing.—We are oftentimes 
in fufpenfe betwixt the choice of different purfuits. . 
We choofe one at lad doubtingly, with an unconquered 
hankering after the other. Shenjione.—S ome drange han¬ 
kerings after the fledi-pots of Egypt liave led thefe pious 
good people a little afide from the right way. Stonejlreet. 
HAN'KIUS (Martin), a learned German writer, born 
in 1633, at Bredau, where his father was a minider. 
He dudied fird in his native city, and then at Jena, where 
he acquired a reputation which caufed him to be in¬ 
vited to the profelfordiip of morals and hidory at Go¬ 
tha. , In 1661 he was called to the fame chair, and that 
of rhetoric, in the Elizabeth college at Bredau ; to 
which office was added-,, in 1760, that of librarian. He 
died in 1709, at the age of feventy-fix. His principal 
works are : 1. De Romanarum rerum-Scriptoribus f 2 vols. 
4to. 1669, 1675. - 2. De Byzantinarum rerum Scriptoribus, 
4to. 1677 ; various tradts on the hidory and antiquities 
of Silefia ; harangues, comedies, and poems in Latin. 
HAN'NA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc : twenty-four miles fouth of Brzefc. 
HANNACHREE'N, a (mall idand near the wed coaft 
of Ireland, and county of Galway: twenty miles wed 
of Rinveel Poiiit. 
■ HAN'NAH, [Heb. gracious.] The name of a woman. 
HAN'NAH BAY, a fadory of Hudfon’s Bay Com¬ 
pany, at the fouth end of James’ Bay in North America, 
andion the eadern fide of Harricanaw river, forty-five 
miles ead-by-fouth ofMoofe Fort. 
HANNAH’S TOWN, a town of the American States, 
in Wedmoreland county, Pennfylvania,, four miles north- 
north-ead of Greendnirg, and on the road from Bedford 
to Pittfinirg; fifty-four miles north-wed-by-wed of the 
former, and twenty-fix ead of the latter. 
HAN'NAS, a town of SvVeden, in the province of 
Smaland : ninety miles north of C’almar. 
HAN'NATHON, a city of Paledinc-, belonging to the 
tribe of Zebulon ; lituated on the northern boundary of 
that province. JoJh. xix.4. 
HAN'NEKEN (Memnon), a Lutheran divine, born 
at Blaxen, in Oldenburg, in 1595. After purfuing his 
(Indies at Bremen and Stade, he went to the univerfity 
of Gieffeh, and removed in 1619 to the college of Ol¬ 
denburg. He afterwards dudied theology under Ni¬ 
cholas Hurnius, at Wittembgrg. He then fucceffively 
vifited the univerfities of Leiplic, Altdorf, Tubingen, 
Balil, and Strafburg. In 1626, he was appointed pro- 
fedor.of moral, philofopliy at Marpurg ; and in the fol¬ 
lowing year was nominated by the landgrave of Hefie, 
profelfor of theology, and of the oriental languages. 
He difcharged the duties of thefe appointments till the 
year 1646, when he accepted the pod of fuperintendent 
of the churches at Lubec. He died at that city in 
1671. He was the writer of, 1. A Hebrew Grammar. 
2. Expofto Epifola Pauli ad Ephefios, 1631, 4to. 3. An 
Abridgment of Theology. 4. Scutum Catholicie Veritaiis. 
5. Irenicum Catholico-evangelihivi. 6. Expofitio Epifolce Pauli 
ad Romanos ; 'and a variety of treatifes in ecclefiadical con- 
troverfy. 
HAN'NEKEN (Philip-Louis.), foil of the preceding, 
born at Marpurg in 1637. - In 1657, he went, to the uni- 
verfity ol Gieffen, and afterwards lludied at Leipfic, , 
Wittemberg, and Rodock. Having didinguifiied him- 
felf by his proficiency in philofopliy and theology, he 
was made a proffiffor at Gieffen in 1663, and foon after¬ 
wards admitted to the degree of do6Ior of divinity. In 
1693 he was called to fill the chair of theology at Wit¬ 
temberg, which he occupied till his death, in 1706. He 
was the author of, 1. Philological Notes on the Book 
-of Joffiua, in Latin. 2. A Sketch of the Hidory of the 
Arians, in the fame language. 3. Con/iantius Sophus. 4. 
EElypa Divines Voluntatis circa Salutem Humanam. 5. Obfer- 
vationes f deles in Sy/lema Theologium Marefii. 6. De Turbe- 
lis Phantafus in objeclo pracipuo Rcligiofee Pietatis, &c._ 
FIAN'NIBAL, a famous Carthaginian general ; for 
whofe character and exploits fee the article Carthage, 
vol. iii. p. 843-849. 
FIAN'NIBAL, a military townfliip of the American 
States, in the State of New York, on Lake Ontario, ten 
miles foiith-by-wed of Fort Ofwego. 
HANNIEL', [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
HAN'NIGSDORF, or Hein'tendorf, a town of 
Silefia, in the principality of Neide : four miles fouth- 
fouth-wed of Grotkau. 
HAN'NO,' a celebrated general of the Carthaginians, 
who was chofen by the fenate to make a-voyage of dif- 
covery round the continent of Africa. 'He entered the 
ocean through the Straits of Gibraltar, and difeovered 
feveral countries which druck him with amazement and 
wonder. He wrote an account of his voyage, which 
Sigifmund Gelenius publidied in Greek at Bafil, by Fro- 
benius, in 1533. He lived, according to Pliny, when the 
commerce of the Carthaginians was in the mod flouridi- 
ing condition. A translation of this ancient and inte- 
rtding-voyage has been given in Italian by Romufio, in 
Spanifh by Campomanes, .in French by Bougainville, 
and in Englifh, in 1797, by the Rev. T. Falconer, fellow 
of Corpus Chridi College, Oxford. In this tranfiation, 
thofe fingular padages in the original text, which for a 
long time gave to the whole an air of romance, are ex¬ 
plained highly to the fatisfaftion of the curious reader; 
of which the following indance will ferve.as an example : 
“'Having taken in water, (fays the original text,) 
we lliled forwards five days near the land, until we 
came to a large bay, which our interpreters informed us 
was called the Wedern Horn. In this was a large idand, 
and in the idand a falt-water lake, and in this another 
idand, where, when we had landed, we could difeover 
nothing in the day-time except trees ; but in the night 
we faw many fires burning, and heard the found of pipes, 
cymbals, drums, and confufed (hputs. We were then 
afraid, and our diviner$ ordered us to abandon the idand. 
Sailing quickly away thence, we paded by a country 
burning with fires and perfumes ; and dreams of fire fup- 
plied thence fell into the fea. The country was impaf- 
fable, on account of the heat. We failed quickly thence, 
being much terrified; and paffing on for four days, we 
difeovered at night a country full of fire. In the middle 
was a lofty fire, larger than the red, which (eeme'd to 
touch the dars. When day came we difeovered it to be 
a large hill, called the Chariot of the Gods.”—In Mr. 
Falconer’s tranfiation thefe circumdances are thus ex¬ 
plained : 
“ In countries, fuch as Hanno was then failing by, 
there is no twilight. The dars, in their full brighfnefs, 
are in podedion of the whole heavens, when, in an in-' 
dant. 
