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of filcnce. The ftattie of this idol was fixed at the 
entrance of 'tnoft of the Egyptian temples, and he was 
commonly exhibited under the figure of a young man 
crowned with an Egyptian mitre, holding in one hand a 
cornucopia, and in the other the flower lotus, and fome- 
times bearing a quiver. 
HAR'POCRA'TION, a rhetorician of Alexandria, 
who is fuppofed to have flouriflied in the fourth cen¬ 
tury. lie wrote a Lexicon of ten Greek Orators, in 
winch he treats of the magiftrates, courts of jufticc, 
forms of pleading, diftrifls, men in public ftations, &c. 
of Attica, a'nd fhews himfelf to be a polite and well-in¬ 
formed writer. Of this work, which has reached our 
times, Mauffac publiflied an edition, Greek and Latin, 
with notes, Paris, 1614, 4to. Another edition was given 
at Leyden, in 1683, 4to. with obfervations by Valois. 
HARPONEE'R,/. [ karponeur , Fr. from harpoon.] He 
that throws the harpoon in whale fifhing. 
HARPONEL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, and capital 
of a diftrict of the fame name, in the Myfore country : 
fixty-five miles north-north-eaft of Bedanore, and 152 
north-north-weft of Seringapatam. Lat. 14. 40. N. Ion. 
75. 28. E. Greenwich. 
HARPOO'N,y. [harpon, Fr.] A fpear or javelin ufed 
to ftrike the whales in the Greenland fiftiery. The har¬ 
poon, which isTometimes called the /tarping-iron, is fur- 
niflied with a long ftaff, having at one end a broad and 
flat triangular head, Sharpened at both edges, fo as to 
penetrate the whale with facility: to the head of this 
weapon is fattened a long cord, called the whale-line, 
which lies carefully coiled in the boat, in fuch.-a man¬ 
ner as to run out without being interrupted or entangled. 
See Whale-Fishery, vol. vii. p. 412. 
The Gun-Harpoon is a javelin of the fame kind as 
that above defcribed; but, inllead of being catt by a 
man, it is difcharged from a gun, whereby it ftrikes the 
whale with greater force, and confequently with more 
•certainty of execution, provided the fmoothnefs of the 
fea will admit of proper aim being taken ; for in rough 
weather it Cannot be ufed. In the Tranfadtions of the 
London Society for the Encouragement of Arts, See. 
we haver accounts of a number of whales killed in this 
manner ; from whence it appears that the inftrument 
is extremely ufeful in calm weather, fince the whale, 
though a timorous creature, will frequently allow a boat 
to approach it to the diftanee of ten, fifteen, or twenty, 
fathoms, all of which diftances are within reach of the 
gun-harpoon, though not within reach of that thrown 
by the hand. On this account it is juttly entitled to 
the encouragement given to it by-that excellent fociety. 
HAR'PSlCHORD,y An elegant mufical inftrument, 
Ttrung with wires, and played by linking keys; but 
which has of late years given place to th e piano-Jorte. 
See the article Music.—It was Mr. Weftern’s cultom 
every afternoon, as foon as he was drunk, to hear his ■ 
daughter play on the karpfichord. Fielding's Tom Jones. 
■HARP'STEDE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weltphalia, and county of Hoya; twenty-tvyo- miles: 
weft-north-weft of Hoya. 
HARPS'WELL, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Cumberland county, diftrifct of Maine, incorporated 
in 1758, and contains 1071 inhabitants. It is bounded 
eafterly by Georgetown ; from which it is feparated by 
a navigable river. Here is a communication opened by 
a canal, between the waters of Kennebeck river and 
thofe of Cafco bay, through, the arm of the fea called 
Stevens’s river. The point called Merryconeag, pro¬ 
jecting itfelf into the bay together with the ifland Se- 
bafeodeagan, and feveral other fmall illands, are incor¬ 
porated with this townfliip. The waters round this 
ifland extend to within two miles of the waters of the • 
Kennebeck, and thus form what is called Small Point. 
FIAR'PY, J. [ harpyia , Lat. harpie , harpye, Fr.] A ra¬ 
venous wretch ; an extortioner: inaliufion to the harpies, 
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—I 1 will do any ambaflage fo the pigmies, rather than 
hold three words conference with this harpy. Shakefpsare . 
HAR'QUEBUSS,/. A handgun. See Aroueeuse. 
HAR'QUEBUSSIER, f. One armed with a harque- 
bufs.—Twenty thoufand nimble karquc'oujficrs were ranged 
in length, and but five in a rank. Knolles. 
HAR'RA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan : thirty-five leagues weft-north-weft of Zareng. 
HAR'RAD, a town of Arabia Felix, in {he'province 
of Yemen : twenty-four miles fouth of Abu-Arifch." 
HAR'RAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Diarbekir : feventy-two miles fouth weft of Diarbek. 
HAR'RASS, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria: four miles fouth of Laab. 
HARRICANAW', a river of Canada, which runs into 
Hannah bay in lat. 51. 10. N. Ion. 79. 50.W. Greenwich. 
HARRIDAN', /! [corrupted from haridelle, a worn-, 
out wortlilefs horfe.] A decayed worn-out ftrumpet; 
She juft endur’d the winter ftie began, 
And in four months a batter’d harridan ; 
Now nothing’s left, but wither’d, pale, and flirunk. 
To bawd for others, and go fliares with punk.. Swift. 
HAR'RIER. See Harier. 
HAR'RIET, a woman’s name. 
HAR'RINGTON (Sir John), a celebrated Engliflt 
poet, born about 1561; and was the fon of John Har ¬ 
rington, efq. of Kelfton, near Bath. He was educated 
at Eton fchool, whence he removed to Cambridge. It 
appears, by a letter from Lefley to James Harrington,, 
that he married a natural daughter of Henry VIII. who 
was endowed with the lands of the priory of Bath. In 
1591 he publiflied a tranflation of Ariofto’s Orlando Fu 
riofa, by which he obtained much reputation as a poet. 
He'accompanied the earl of Effex to Ireland in 1599, 
and received from him the honour of knighthood; and 
in the reign of James I. he was made a knight of the 
Bath. He frequented the court, and cultivated tip; 
friendftiip of prince Henry, to whom he prefented a ma- 
nufeript difeourfe, entitled A Brief View of the.State 
of the Church of.England, to the Year 160S. This was 
a kind of continuation of Dr. Godwin’s Catalogue of 
Biftiops; but its chief fcope was to diferedit married 
prelates, efpecially thofe who had been twice married. 
The work contained many free cenfures upon particular 
bifliops, on which account it was publiflied in 1653, by 
the author’s grandfon, J. Chetwynd, efq. Sir John died 
in 1612. He had planned a hiftory of his own times, but 
did not live to execute it. After his dedth were pub¬ 
liflied his Epigrams, in four books. Two volumes of 
mifcellaneous pieces, under the title of Nugee Antiques, 
were printed in 1769, and x775J by Henry Harrington* 
of Queeii’s-cdllege, Oxford. 
HAR'RINGTON (James), a celebrated political wri¬ 
ter, born at the family feat at Upton in Northampton- 
ftiire, in 1611. A ferioufnefs of temper, and grdat dif- 
polkion to ftudy, diftinguifhed his early years, and ac¬ 
companied him to Trinity-college, Oxford, of which 
he was admitted a fellow-commoner in 1629. After his 
tuition there, under the famous Chillingworth, he tra¬ 
velled abroad. In the Netherlands, he entered as a vo¬ 
lunteer in lord Craven’s regiment ; and being quartered 
at the Hague, he frequented the courts of the prince-of 
Orange and the queen of Bohemia, and ingratiated him. 
felf with thofe diftinguiflied perfons. He afterwards ac¬ 
companied the eledfor-palatine in a vilit to the king of 
Denmark, and remained as an attendant upon his perfpn 
for fome years. Refuming his plan of foreign travel, 
he vilited Germany, France, and Italy, before he re¬ 
turned to England. The.republican ideas which lie had 
imbibed in Holland,inclined him, at the commencement 
of the civil contentions, to fide with the parliament; but 
not being able to procure a feat in the houfe, he re¬ 
mained imdiftinguilhed till 1646. In that year, accom- 
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