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HEN 
Ion. 75. 26. W. There is a light-houfe on the top, a 
few miles below the town of Lewis, of an octagon form, 
handfomely built of Hone, 115 feet high, and its founda¬ 
tion is nearly as much above the level of the fea. The 
Jantern is between feven and eight feet fquare, lighted 
with eight lamps, and may be feen in the night ten 
leagues at fea. I rs annual expence is about 630I. There 
is a ftrong iron net-work, in order to prevent birds from 
breaking the glafs at night. Yet fo attractive is the 
light to the winged tribe, that fhortly after its eredtion, 
no aquatic birds of different kinds were found dead one 
morning ; and a duck, in particular flew againft it with 
fuch force, as to penetrate through both the wire and 
glafs, and was found dead in the lantern. Veffels ap¬ 
pearing off the Delaware, upon difplaying a jack at the 
foretopmaft-head, are immediatly furnifhed with a pilot. 
HEN'MOULD, f. In hufbandry, a kind of black, 
fpongy foil. 
HEN'NA, / in botany. See Lawsonia. 
HEN'NEBERG, a county of Germany, once a princi¬ 
pality, in Franconia; fituated to the north of the bi- 
thopric of Wurzburg ; about twenty-four miles in ex¬ 
tent from north to fouth, and twenty-two from eaft to 
weft. The land bears corn and tobacco. Here are 
fome extenfive foreftsand mountains, with mines of cop¬ 
per, filver, iron, and fteel, feveral medicinal fprings and 
fait works. They count thirteen towns; the princi¬ 
pal rivers are the Werra, Schleufs, Schwartza, and 
Felde. The inhabitants are Lutherans. The pofterity 
of the hereditary counts being extindt in 1583, the ter¬ 
ritory palfed to different branches of the houfe of Saxony. 
HEN'NEBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, which gives title to the above-mentioned 
county. It takes its name from an ancient caftle, which 
was burnt by the peafants in 1525 : four miles fouth of 
Meinungen. - 
HEN'NEBON, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridt, in the department of the Morbihan, fitu¬ 
ated on the Blavet, which is navigable for veffels of a 
moderate fize. It contains about 3000inhabitants, who 
carry on a confiderable trade in corn, iron, honey, &c. 
feventeen ports and three quarters fouth-eaft of Breft, 
and fixty-two and a quarter weft of Paris. Lat. 47.48.N. 
Ion. 14. 23. E. Ferro. 
HEN'NERSB ACH, a river of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and marggraviate of Meirten, which joins the 
Mockengrund, and forms the Seylewitz. 
FIEN'NERSDGRF, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and Middle Mark of Brandenburg; two miles 
fouth-eaft of Teltow. 
HEN'NERSDORF, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Neifle : feven miles and a half north-north-eaft 
of Neifle. 
HENNEVEU'X, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftridt of Boulogne : three leagues eaft of 
Boulogne. 
HEN'NIKER, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Hillfborough county, New Hampfliire, about twelve 
miles weft of Concord. 
HEN'NIN LIETARD, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftridt of Arras : three leagues and a half 
north-north-eaft of Arras, and two north-weft of Douay. 
HENNIN'GES (Jerome), a native of Germany, and 
a.difciple of Melantfhon, diftinguifhed liimfelf by his 
genealogical refearches. He publifhed at Hamburg in 
1596, Genealogia Familiarum Saxonicarum, folio. It was 
followed in 1398 by Theatrum Genealogicum, minium j£ta- 
tum and Monarchiarum Familias. comfltBens, Magdeb. 4 vols. 
folio. Containing the Jewilh families from Adam down 
to the deftru.dtion of Jerulalem ; the origin of all other 
nations, and the families of the fecond and third monar¬ 
chies ; the families of ancient Greece and Italy; and 
thole of all the principal modern kingdoms. His Ger¬ 
man genealogies arerreckoned the molt valuable, 
HEN 
HEN'OCH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name, 
HEN-OT'ICUM, [ijrcmxoy, Gr. reconciliative; of 
tvouy I unite.] In ecclefta(lical hiftory, a famous edift of 
the emperor Zeno,~ publifhed A. D. 482, and intended 
to reconcile and reunite the Eutychians w ith the Catho¬ 
lics. It was procured of the emperor by means of Aca- 
cius, patriarch of Conftantinople, with the aftiftance of 
the friends of Peter Mongus and Peter Triilhi. It re- 
peats and confirms all that had been enabled in the 
councils of Nice, Conftantinople, Ephefus, and Chalce- 
don, againft the Arians, Neftorians, and Eutychians ; 
but it was violently oppofed by the catholics, and con. 
demned in form by pope Felix II. 
HENOT'ITY, f [from EvuTit;, Gr. onenefs.] Unity; 
identity. Scott. 
HEN'RICHEMONT, a town of France, in the de- 
dartment of the Cher, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftribt of Aubigny, built by the duke of Sully, in 
the reign of Henry IV. It is three leagues and three 
quarters fouth of Aubigny, and four and a half north- 
north-eaft of Bourges. Lat. 47. 18. N. Ion. 20. 21. E. 
Ferro. . 
HEN'RICHS, a town of Germany, in Franconia, and 
county of Henneberg: fix miles eaft of Meinungen. 
HENRI'CIANS, in ecclefiaftical hiftory, a fedb fo 
called from Henry its founder, a monk and hermit, who 
undertook to reform the vices of the clergy. For this 
purpofe he left Laufanne in Swifterland, and fettled at 
Thouloufe in 1147, and there exercifed his minifterial 
function, till being overcome by the oppofition of Ber. 
nard abbot of Clairval, and condemned by pope Euge- 
nius III. at a council aflembled at Rheims, he was com¬ 
mitted to prifon in 1148, where he foon ended his days. 
This reformer rejected the baptifm of infants; cenfured 
the corrupt manners of the clergy ; treated the feftivals 
of the church with contempt; and held aflemblies for 
inculcating his peculiar dodtrines. 
HEN'RICKSW ALD, a town of Pruffian Lithuania r 
fix miles weft-fouth-weft of Tilfit. 
HENRI'CO, a county of the American States, in 
Virginia, about thirty miles long, and feven broad, con¬ 
taining, by the cenlus, 12,000irthabitants. It isfurround. 
ed by Hanover, Charles City, and Goochland, counties* 
and James river. A number of coal-mines are in the 
county, and pits have been opened by many of the pro¬ 
prietors, and worked to confiderable profit. The coals 
in feveral of the pits are found nearly two hundred feet 
above the level of the river, and three or four feet below 
the furface of the ground. It is fuppofed that 300,000 
bulhels might be raifed from one of thefe in a-year* 
Chief town, Richmond. 
HENRIET'TA, [from Henry .] The Chriftian name 
of a woman. 
HENRIQUEL'LE, a remarkable falt-lake in the 
ifland of St. Domingo,-about twenty-two leagues in cir¬ 
cuit. It is inhabited by lizards and alligators, and land- 
tortoifes, all of a large fize. The water is deep, clear, - 
bitter, and fait, and has a difagreeable fmell. Near the 
middle of the lake is an ifland about two leagues long, 
and a league wide, in which is a fpring of frelh water, 
well flocked with cabritoes, and thence called Cabrito 
ifland. This pond is about eleven leagues eaft of Port- 
au-Prince. 
HEN'RY, [Camden derives it of honor , Lat. honour; 
Verftegan from han, Teut. haven and Jiic, Sax. rich ; 
but Kilian writes it keynrick, q. d. heymrick ; i. e. rich at 
home.] A Chriftian name of men. 
HEN'RY I. to VIII. kings of England. For their 
hiftory and exploits, fee the article England, vol. vR 
P>565-641. 
HEN'RY I. to IV. kings of France. For their ex¬ 
ploits, and hiftory, fee the article France, vol. vii. 
p. 664-720. 
HEN'RY I. to VII. emperors of Germany. For their . 
hiftory and exploits, fee the article German y, vol. viii* 
p. 471-484. 
HEN'RY 
