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to the planets, tliefe, lines would then found all the 
notes in the oCtave of a mufical chord. See his Harmo¬ 
nics; alfo Maclaurin’s View of Newton’s Difcov. b.i. c.2. 
HAR'MONY, a town, of the American States, in Lu¬ 
zerne county, Pennfylvania; clofe on the line of New 
York, on the north tide of Starucca'creek, a water of 
the eaft branch of Sufquehannah river. Between this 
and Stockport on Delaware river, diftant eighteen miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft, there is a portage. It is abqut.140 miles 
.north-by-weft of Philadelphia, and 130 north-weft of 
New York. La't. 41.58. N. 
HARMOS'TES, f. In antiquity, the Grecian aediles; 
officers among the, Greeks anfwering to aediles among 
the Romans. 
HARMO'ZIA. See Armoza, vol. ii. p. 200. 
HAR'NAD NEME'TI, a town of Hungary : fixteen 
miles weft of Tokay. 
HAR'NEPHER, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HAR'NESS, f [/tarnois, Fr. fuppofed from iein, or 
hie'rn, Runic ; hiairn, Welfti and Erie, iron.] Armour; 
defenfive furniture of war : 
-A "goodly knight, all drefs’d in harnefs meet, 
That from his head no plaeeappeared to his feet. Spenfer. 
The traces of draught horfes, particularly of carriages 
of pleafure or ftate : of other carriages we fay geer: 
Their deeds around, 
Free from the harnefs, graze the flow’ry ground. Dry den. 
To HAR'NESS, v. a. To drefs in armour: 
Full fifty years, harnefs'd in rugged fteel, 
I have endur’d the biting winter’s blait. ' Rowe, 
To fix horfes in their traces. —Harnefs the horfes, and 
get up the horfemen, and ftand forth with your hamlets. 
Jer. xlvi. 4. 
Before the door her iron chariot ftood. 
All ready harnejfed for journey hew. Spenfer. 
HAR'NESSING, f. The ad: of putting on harnefs; 
putting on armour. 
HAR'NIT, or Arme, a fmall ifland in the Englifti 
Channel, about two miles from the ifland of Guernfey, 
and one from Sark. 
HA'RO, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, on the Ebro, 
furrounded with walls. It is lituated in a fertile coun¬ 
try, and contains feven hundred families, three parilhes, 
and a convent: thirty-two miles north-eaft of Burgos, 
and feven north of Calzada; 
HA'RO, or Har'ron, f. In old cuftoms, a hue and 
cry after felons. 
HAR'OAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HAR'OD, [Heb. aftonilhment.] The name of a place. 
HAR^ODITE, an inhabitant, of Harod. 
HAR'OLD I. and II. kings of England. See the 
article England, vol. vi. p.555-558. 
HA'RON-A'DAB, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Irak : thirty leagues weft of Amadan. 
HARO'NIA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the Ara¬ 
bian Irak : forty-five miles north of Bagdad. 
HA'RORITE, the furname of Shammoth. 1 Chron. 
xi. 27. 
HAR'OSHETH, [Heb. agriculture.]’ The name of a 
place. Judges. 
HAROUE', a town of France, in the department of 
the Meurtc, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt 
of Vezelize : one league and a quarter eaft of Vezelize, 
and four and a half fouth-weft of Luneville. 
HARP, f [heaytp, Sax. harpe, Fr. It is ufed through 
both the Teutonic and Roman dialeCts, and has been 
long in ufe. Romanufque lyrd plaudat tibi , Barbarus harp a. 
Veil. Fort.] A lyre ; an iiiftrument ftrung with wire, and 
commonly ftruck with the finger; and of which there 
are feveral kinds. See the article Music. 
They touch 5 -; their golden harps } and hymning prais’d 
God and his works, Milton, 
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Nor wanted tuneful harp, nor vocal quire, 
The mules fling, Apollo touch’d the lyre. Dryden. 
The name of a conftellation : 
Next fliines th e'harp, and-through the liquid fkies 
The (hell, as lighted, firft begins to rife; 
Thus when fweet Orpheus ftruck, to lift’ning rocks 
He fenfes gave, and ears to wither’d oaks. Creech. 
7o HARP, v. n. [harper , Fr.] To play on the harp.—' 
I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. Rev „ 
The helmed cherubim, 
And fw'orded feraphim, 
Are feenin glitt’ring ranks with wings difplay’d. 
Harping in loud and folemn quire, 
With unexpreffive notes tp heaven’s new-born heir. Milton.- 
To touch any paffion ; as,', the harper touches a firing. 
To dwell on a fubjeCt.—You harp a little too much upon 
one firing. Collier. 
Gracious-;duke, 
Harp not on that, nor do not baniftl reafon 
F or inequality ; but let your reafon ferve 
To make the truth appear. Shakefpeare. 
HARPAC'TION, / In phyfic and furgery, a kind of 
gum; a plafter of brimftone and turpentine. Phillips. 
HAR'PAGUS, a general of Cyrus. He conquered 
Alia Minor after he had revolted from Aftyages, who 
had cruelly forced him to eat the flefti of his Ion, becaule 
he had difobeyed his orders in not putting to death the 
infant Cyrus. Herodotus. 
HARPAL'ICE, a woman’s name ; daughter of Ly= 
curgus. 
HAR'PALUS, an eminent Greek aftronomer, who 
flouriflied about 480 years before Chrift. He corrected 
the cycle of eight years, which Cleoftratus of Tenedos 
had invented, and propofed a new one of nine years, in 
which he imagined that the fun and moon returned to 
the fame point. This cycle of Harpalus was followed 
till about the year 444 before Chrift, when Meton the 
fon of Paufanias proved it to be erroneous, and publiftied 
his invention of the Enneadecaeteris, or cycle of nineteen 
years, which is ftill in ufe, and called the Golden Number 
though, properly fpeaking, the golden number is that 
particular number which lhows the year of the cycle 
with which any given year correfponds. See the article 
Chronology, vol.v. p.537. 
HARPAR'REN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriCt of Uftaritz : three leagues and a quarter 
fouth-eaft of Bayonne, and two and half eaft of Uftaritz. 
HAR'PATH, a river of United America, in the Te- 
neifee government, which runs into the Cumberland ri¬ 
ver fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Clarkfville. 
HAR'PAX,/ In natural luftory, a kind of amber. 
HARPE,/. A fword like a fcythe; a wood-knife. An- 
old word . 
HARPE (John Francis de la), a celebrated writer, 
born at Paris in 1739; his father was a Swifs, and a 
captain of artillery in the fervice of France. He had no 
fortune in profpeCt, and owed his education to the kind- 
nefs of the principal of the college d’Harcourt. Young 
La Harpe carried away the univerfity prizes, and foon 
diftinguifhed himfelf by his productions. At the age of 
twenty-five he gave to the ftage his tragedy of Warwick, 
which met with great firccefs: but his future effays in 
the fame way did not anfwer the public expectations; 
with the exception of PhiloCtetes, tranflated from So¬ 
phocles. The abfence of the female character is a lin¬ 
gular trait in this tragedy; without love, the perform¬ 
ance interefts by its noble limplicity, and by bringing, to 
our recollection the high ftate of the tragic art in Greece. 
. Every year, befides his tragedies, this writer produced 
pieces of poetry, and profe effays, which, were crowned 
with the prizes of the different academies. This honour 
was conferred on his eulogiums on Fenelon, Racine, Ga- 
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