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ftant, the fun appears without an harbinger, and they 
all difappear together. At fun-rifing, the thermometer 
is from 48° to 6o°. At three o’clock in the afternoon, 
it is from ioo° to 115 0 . Hence an univerfal relaxation, 
a kind of irrefiflible languor, and averfion to all aftion, 
takes pofleflion of both man and bead; the appetite 
fails* and deep and quiet are the only things the mind 
is capable of defiring, or the body of enduring. Cattle, 
birds, and beads, all flock to the fliade, or to the neigh¬ 
bourhood of running dreams, or deep dagnant pools. 
From the fame motive, the wild bead dirs not from his 
Cave ; and for this too he Has an additional reafon : be- 
caufe the cattle he depends upon for his prey do not dir 
abroad to feed; they are afleep and in fafety, for with 
them are their dogs and their fliepherds. But no fooner 
does the fun fet, than a cold night indantiy fucceeds a 
burning day ; the appetite immediately returns, the cat¬ 
tle fpread themfelves abroad to feed, and pals quietly 
out of the fhepherds fight, into the reach of a multitude 
of beads feeking for their prey. Fires, the only remedy, 
are.every where lighted by the fhepherds to keep thefe 
at a refpeftful didance ; and dancing, fingihg, and rau- 
dc, at once exhilarate the mind, and contribute, by 
alarming the beads of prey, to keep their flocks in fafe¬ 
ty, and prevent the bad effects of fevere cold. This 
was the caufe of the obfervation Hanno made, failing 
along the coad ; and it was true when he made it. Jufl 
the fame may be obferved dill, and will be, fo long as 
the climate and inhabitants are the fame ; and thus it 
has been recently defcribed by Mr. Bruce. 
“ They then-pafled by a country burning with fire, 
which was accompanied with perfumes; and dreams of 
fire, fupplied thence, fell into the fea.” This fait-like- 
wife is excellently illudrated by Mr. Bruce. “ After 
the fire,” fays he, “ (which was lighted for the purpofes 
of dertroying the covet for,the animals which they hunt,) 
has confumcd all the dry grafs in the plain, an.d, from 
it, done the fame up to the top of the highed moun¬ 
tains, the large ravines or gullies, made by the torrents 
falling from the higher ground, being fhaded by their 
depth, and their being in poflefiion of the lad water that 
runs, are the lated to take fire, though full of every 
fort of herbage. The large bamboos, hollow 'canes, 
and fuch like plants, growing as thick as they can dand, 
retain their greerinefs, and are not dried enough for 
burning, till the fire has cleared the grafs from all the 
red of the country ; at lad, when no other fuel remains, 
the herdfmen on the tops of the mountains fet fire to 
thefe, and the fire runs down in the very path in which, 
fome months before, the water ran, filling the whole 
gully with flame, which does not end till it is checked 
by the ocean below, where the torrent of water entered, 
and where the fire of courfe ceafes. This I have often 
feen myfelf, and been often nearly enclofed in it; and 
can bear witpefs, that, at a didance, and by a flranger 
ignorant of the caufe, it would hardly be didinguiflied 
from a river of fire.”—Thus does the voyage of Hanno, 
which has long been.confidered as a fable, appear ge¬ 
nuine and rational in all its parts. 
^ HAN'NONVILLE SOUS LES COTES, a town of 
France, in the department of the Meufe, and chief place 
of a canton, in the didrift of St. Mihiel: three leagues 
north-north-ead of St. Mihiel, and‘four fouth-ead of 
Verdun. 
HANNO'YS, a fmall ifland in the Englifh Channel, 
about half a mile from the wed coad of the ifland of 
Guernfey. 
HANNU'YE, a town of Brabant, twenty miles wed 
of Liege. 
HAN'OCH, [Heb. dedicated.] A man’s name. 
HAN'OCHITE, a defcendant of Hanoch. 
HAN'OCK,/ A corn-meafure at Malaga in Spain, 
containing unheaped 129 pounds, or heaped 144 pounds, 
avoirdupois. 
HANOSFAL'VA, a town of Hungary : twelve miles 
north-ead of Szeben. 
HAN 
HANDOVER, a city of Germany, in Lower Saxony, 
and principality of Calenberg, fituated on the Leine, 
which divides it into two towns, Old and New. Old 
or Aldadt Hanover, was formerly the capital of the 
eleftorate, and.refidence of the ele.ftor, but ranks the 
fecond among the four large cities of the principality of 
Calenberg, Guttingen being the firfl. It was long the 
feat of the privy council, and of the regency of all the 
territories belonging to the eleftorate houfe of Brunf- 
wick Luneburg. It is fituated on the left fide of the 
Leine, which, running in two channels between the old 
and new town, and thus forming an ifland, unites into 
one ftream again, and becomes navigable. .The town is 
fortified, and contains about 1200 houfes, among which 
are many large and handfome buildings. The elefto'Us 
palace, fituated on that fide fronting the Leine, having 
being dedroyed by fire, was rebuilt in 1741, with great 
magnificence. In it the privy council and Commiflion- 
ers of war, before the revolution, were accuftomed to 
hold their meetings. In the chapel belonging to it, which 
is very fplendid, is kept a treafure of great value, con¬ 
fiding of reliques, gold and filver plate, and gems, col¬ 
lected by duke Henry the Lion, in his journey to the 
Ead in 1171, and the fucceeding years; which-treafure 
was at fird lodged in St. Blair’s church, at Brunfwick; 
but on the furrender of that city to duke John Fre¬ 
deric, was brought to Hanover. The dates houfe is a 
noble drufture : in this building were ufually held the 
Calenberg diets, and likewife thofe of the high court of 
judice. Hanover contains three parifli churches, a poor- 
houfe, and three hofpitals. Here are manufactures of 
lace, duff, dockings, ribbons, &c. The tanneries form 
a confiderable branch of trade, as likewife a fpecies of 
white beer, invented in 1526, by one Broihar, whole 
name it bears. Hanover was unknown before the year 
1163. In 1241, this town was transferred, by Conrad 
count of Lauenrode, at that time proprietor of it, to 
duke Otho the Child, who promifed the burghers that 
it fhould be made unalienable, and remain for ever in 
his houfe. But notwithdanding thefe engagements, in 
1283, hisgrandfon, duke Otho the Severe, was for mak¬ 
ing it over to the bifhop of Hildefheim, which catifed 
an infurreftion, and the bifliop never got poflefiion of it. 
In 1297, however, a reconciliation was effefted between 
the fovereign and the inhabitants. In 1725, an alliance 
was concluded here between Great Britain, France-, and 
Pruflia, to which, in 1726, Holland alfo acceded. In 
1757, the French poflefled themfelves of the city, but 
quitted it again in 1758. The Neudadt or new town of 
Hanover is fituated on the right fide of the Leine, op- 
pofite Old Hanover, and communicates with it by means 
of bridges. This town is fortified ; and although it 
contains fcarcely four hundred houfes, is well built and 
populous. Its magidracy is poflefled of the civil jurif- 
diftion alone. It was the feat of the confidory for the elec¬ 
toral territories, as likewife of the general luperinten- 
deney of the principality of Calenberg, and of a fpecial 
iuperintendency. It contains alfo feveral valuable ma- 
nufaftures. 
Baron Knigge, who vifited Hanover in 1792, fays that 
he ho where met with fo many intelligent and well-in¬ 
formed people among the middling clafles, as in this 
city. Many of the merchants are men of confiderable 
literary knowledge, and the fociety of both fexes is ra¬ 
tional and improving. This mud be underdood to re¬ 
late to private parties, in the admiflion to which, cha¬ 
racter and abilities are more confidered than the cere¬ 
monials of rank and nobility. Thus the different clafles 
improve each other; and hence,, we are told, there are 
many among the wives and daughters of tradefmen, 
who, with refpeft to politenefs and propriety of beha¬ 
viour, would do honour to any mixed fociety. Of the 
Hanoverian officers, the baron fpeaks with great praife, 
as men who have not only profeflional merit, but who 
are alfo polite and exemplary in their manners. This 
is greatly owing to their military fchools, where they 
