HER 
Samfon hath quit himfelf 
Like Samfon, and heroidy hath finifh'd 
A life heroic. Milton. 
HER'OINE, f. [from Hero ; heroine , Fr. ] A female 
hero. Anciently, according to Engliffi analogy, heroefs: 
Then (hall the Britilh ftage 
More noble characters expofe to view. 
And draw her finifh’d heroines from you. Addifon. 
HER'OIS, a feftival, celebrated every 9th year by the 
Delphians, in honour of a celebrated heroine. There 
was in the celebration a great number of myfterious rites, 
with a reprefentation of fomething like Semele’s refur- 
redtion. 
HER'OISM,/". [ heroifme, Fr.} The qualities or cha¬ 
racter of a hero.—If the Odyffey be lefs noble than the 
Iliad, it is more inftruCtive ; the Iliad abounds with 
more keroi/m, this with more morality. Broome. 
HER'QLDSBERG, a town of Germany, in Franco¬ 
nia, and territory of Nuremberg : feven miles nortli- 
north-eaft of Nuremberg, and eight fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Erlang. 
HER'ON, /. [ [heron, Fr.] A bird that preys upon 
fifh 5 for the different fpecies and natural hiftory of which, 
fee the article Ardea, vol. ii. p. 131-136 ; and the cor- 
refpondent/Engravings.—The heron , when fhe foareth 
high, fhoweth winds. Bacon. 
So lords, with fport of flag and heron full, 
Sometimes we feefmall birds from nefts do pull. Sidney. 
It is now commonly pronounced hern. 
The tow’ring hawk let future poets fing, 
Who terror bears upon his foaring wing ; 
Let them on high the frighted hern furvey. 
And lofty numbers paint their airy fray. Gay. 
HER'ON CREEK, a creek of the American States, 
in Malfachufetts, a little to the weft of Cape Malabar. 
HER'ON-PASS, a ftrait of the American States, at 
the bay of Mobile, in Weft Florida, eighteen miles eaft 
of Pafcagoula river, and has four feet water ; and from 
thence to the point which is on the eaft fide of the Bay 
of Mobile, in lat. 30.17. N. is nearly fix miles. 
HER'ONER, /. In falconry, a hawk that flies at the 
heron. 
HER'ONRY, or Her'onshaw, a place where herons 
breed.—At Crefley-Hall, near Spalding, in Lincoln- 
fhire, is one of the greateft heronries in England; the 
herons building there together on very high trees, fimi- 
Jar to a rookery. The young, when ready to quit their 
nefts, are carried to Spalding market for fiale. 
HEROPH'ILA, in antiquity, one of the Sibyls. 
HEROPH'lLUS, an eminent Greek phyfician, difci- 
ple of Praxagoras, native of Chalcedon, and refided at 
Alexandria in Egypt in the reign of Ptolemy Lagus. 
He cultivated the fcience of anatomy in fo high a de¬ 
gree, as to be charged with the cruelty of exerciling his 
knife upon living criminals. He rofe to lo much fame, 
that ftatues were erefted to his memory. Of the wri¬ 
tings of this phyfician, fcarcely any thing remains to us, 
except fragments prelerved in the works of Galen. His 
anatomical enquiries were much directed to the nerves, 
which he diftinguilhed from the ligaments and tendons, 
with which, till his time, they had been confounded. 
He was the firft who paid accurate attention to the 
pulfe, to the movements of which he attempted to ap¬ 
ply the doctrine of mufical proportions; but his fub- 
tleties in this point cauled his opinions to be negleCted. 
In his practice of phylic he attributed much efficacy to 
compound medicines and antidotes; fuppofing molt dif- 
eafesto exift in a difordered ftate of the blood and juices. 
HER'PA, in ancient geography, a town of Cappa¬ 
docia. 
HER'PES, /. [tgsnjf, Gr, from igirw, to creep, be. 
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caufe it creeps and fpreads about the fkin.] The tet¬ 
ter, or ringworm. 
HERPET'ICA, f. in botany. See Cassia alata. 
HER'QUI, or ErQui, a fmall town of France* in the 
department of the North Coalts, with a fmall harbour 
in the Englifh Channel, near a cape, called “ The Point 
of Herqui,” which forms a bay. On the 17th of March, 
1796, fir Sidney Smith failed into this bay, and deftroy- 
ed a number of the French veflels intended for the in- 
vafion of England: fix leagues weft of St. Male, and 
four and a half eaft-north-eaft St. Brieux. 
HER'RENBERG, a town of Germany, in Swabia, 
and duchy of Wurtemberg : fourteen miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Stuttgard, and twenty-four north-eaft of Freu- 
denftadt. 
HERRENBREITUN'GEN, a town of Germany, in 
Franconia, and county of Henneberg, fituated on the 
Werra : twenty miles weft of Smalcalden. 
HERRE'RA, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile : thirty- 
two miles north-north-weft of Burgos. 
HERRE'RA TORDESIL'LAS (Antony), a Spanifh 
hiftorian, born in 1565 ; was made fecretary to Vefpa- 
fian de Gonzaga, viceroy of Navarre and Valentia ; af¬ 
ter whofe death, Philip II. king of Spain, appointed him 
royal hiftoriographer for the Indies. In this capacity 
he wrote his general hiftory of the Indies, under the title 
of Hifloriageneral de los Hechos de los Cajlellanos en las ljlas y 
Tierra Firma de Mar Oceano, 4 vols. folio. This work, 
with a delcription of the Weft Indies, relates all the im¬ 
portant tranfaftions of the Spaniards in thofe diftant 
countries, from 1492 to 1554. It is noticed by Dr. Ro- 
bertfon, as a work “ furni thing the fulleft and mod ac¬ 
curate information concerning the conqueft of Mexico, 
as well as every other tranla&ion of America.” He 
alfo compofed a General Hiftory of his time, from 1554 
to 1598, 3 vols. folio ; and died in 1625. 
HERRE'RA (Ferdinand de), a Spanilh poet of the 
fixteenth century, native of Seville. He publiffied in 
1582, a collection of lyrical and heroic poems, which 
were reprinted in 1619. They acquired for him a con- 
fiderable reputation; and he is accounted one of thole 
who attained the greateft excellence in the lyric poetry 
of Spain. He publilhed likewife an edition of Garci- 
HUo de la Vega, with notes; the Life of Sir Thomas 
More ; and a Narrative of the War of Cyprus, and of 
the battle of Lepanto. 
HERRIE'DEN, a town of Germany, in Franconia, 
and bilhopric of Archfter, fituated on the AJtmuhl; 
five miles fouth-weft of Anfpach, and twelve north- 
north-eaftofDunckellbuhl. Lat.49.8.N. Ion. 28. 11.E, 
Ferro. 
HER'RING, f. [ hareng, Fr. hasping, Sax.) A fmall 
fea-filh ; for the different fpecies of which, iee the ar¬ 
ticle Clupea, vol. iv. p. 686-693 ; and the correfpon- 
dent Engravings. The fale of herrings is regulated by 
the following aCts of parliament: It is unlawful to buy 
or fell herrings at lea, before the fifhermen come into 
the haven, and the cable of the (hip be drawn to the 
land. 31 Edto. IM.Jlat. 2. No herrings fhall be fold in 
any velfel, but where the barrel contains thirty-two gal¬ 
lons, and half-barrel and firkin accordingly ; and they 
muft be well packed, of one time’s packing and falting, 
and be as good in the middle as at the ends, on pain of 
forfeiting 3s. 4d. a barrel, &c. by 22 Edw. IV. c. 2. 
The vellels for herrings are to be marked with the quan¬ 
tity, and place were packed ; and packer are to be ap¬ 
pointed and fworn in all filhing-ports, &c. under the 
penalty of 100I. 15 Car. II. c. 16. 
HER'RING, adj. Belonging to a herring, ufed in frill¬ 
ing tor-herrings. 
HER'RING (Thomatj), archbifiiop of Canterbury, 
diftinguifhed by his ardent attachment to the intere.fts of 
civil and religious liberty, was the fon of a clergyman, 
at Walfoken in Norfolk, where he was born in 1693. 
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