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was honoured by the duke of Savoy with the knighthood 
of the order of St. Maurice. He died at Paris in 1732. 
He diftinguifhed himfelf by his heraldic knowledge, and 
compofed feveral works in this branch by order of Louis 
XIV. Among thefe is Le Nobiliare de Champagne , folio, 
1673, drawn up under the direftion of Caumartin. 
Louis Peter d’Hozier, his nephew and fucceflbr in 
office, died in 1767. During the period of his miniftra- 
tion appeared L'Armorial, ou Regi/ircs de la NobleJJe de France, 
in 10 vols. folio. 
IIO'ZING,/! The a6t of expeditating. 
HOZOW', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Kiov: 
thirty miles fouth-weft of Bialacerkiew. 
• FIRA'DECK, a town of Bohemia, in Konigingratz: 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Konigingratz. 
HRA'DEK, a town of Bohemia, in Konigingratz: 
four miles weft of Konigingratz. 
HRA'DISCH, a town of Moravia, and capital of a 
circle of the fame name, lituated on the river Moraw, ce¬ 
lebrated for its excellent wine and fruit: thirty miles 
fouth of Olmutz, and 120 fouth of Breflau. 
HRAT'NIZ, a town of Bohemia, in Konigingratz : 
two miles louth-welt of Geyerfberg. 
IJREE'NIA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Min Ik : fixteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Mintk. 
HRO'CHOW, a town of Bohemia, in Chrudim: four 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Chrudim. 
HRO'ZOW, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodeck : eighteen miles north of Sluck. 
HU-CHOUI-LO-TCHUAN, a town of the kingdom 
of Corea: 600 miles eaft-north-eaft of Peking. Lat. 42. 
27. N. Ion. 146. 37. E. Ferro. 
HU A, or Kahua, a city of Alia, and capital of Co¬ 
chin-china. 
HUA'CRE-CHU'CO, a town of Peru, in the audience 
of Lima, and jurifdiffion of Guamalies. 
HUAHEI'NE, one of the Society Illands, in the South¬ 
ern Pacific Ocean, eight leagues in circumference, fepa- 
rated by a deep gulf into two peninfulas, united by an 
ifthmus, which is overflowed by the fea in high tides. 
The vegetable productions are fimilar to thofe of Otaheite. 
The harbour of Owharra, on the weft coaft, has good an¬ 
chorage, in eighteen fathom water, fecure from winds. 
Lat. 16. A3. N. ion. 151. W. Greenwich. 
HUAN'CA-VEL ICA. .See Guanca-Velica. 
HU'BAUT, a rock in the Englilh Channel: two miles 
and a quarter fouth-weft of Noirmont Point. 
HUB'BUB,yi [etymology uncertain.] A tumult; a riot: 
An univerfal hubbub wild 
Of ftunning founds, and voices all confus’d, 
Borne through the hollow dark, affaults his ear, 
With loudeft vehemence. Milton. 
HU'BELY, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Sanore : eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Darwar, and twenty 
north-weft of Sanore. Lat. 15. 53. N. Ion. 75. 24. E. 
Greenwich. 
HU'BER (Ulric), one of the greateft civilians in the 
fever,teenth century, born at Dockum in 1636. He be¬ 
came profelfor of law at Franeker; and wrote, 1. A trea- 
tife De jure civitads. 2. Jurifprudentia Frifica. 3. Specimen 
pkilofopkia civilis. 4. Lnftitutiones hijloria civilis ; and feveral 
other works, which are efteemed. He died in 1694. 
HU'BER (John-James), a celebrated anatomili, born 
at Balle in 1707. He laid the grounds of his education 
in his native city; ftudied at Berne under the great Haller, 
and afterwards at Stralburgh; and in 1733 took the de¬ 
gree of doftor of medicine at Balle. In 1735 he made a 
tour to Paris, and the fame year was appointed phyfician 
to the court of Baden Dourlach. Haller, who removed to 
Gottingen in 1736, having conceived the idea of publilh- 
ing a defcription of all the plants of Swifferland, and not 
being able to examine the whole of that country himfelf, 
Huber explored for him the Graiibund mountains, col- 
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leflcd the plants which grow in that diftrict, and tranf- 
mitted them to Haller for the completion of his work, which 
was publilhed in 1742 in 2 vols. folio, under the title of 
Enumeratio Plantarum Hdveticurum. The author acknow¬ 
ledges the fervices rendered to him by Huber, whom he 
invited to Gottingen in 1738, to be dilfeCtor. He was 
foon made extraordinary-profelfor of anatomy in that city; 
in 1742 profelfor in the Caroline college at Calfel, with 
the rank of court-phyfician; and in 1748 counfellor of 
ftate and body-phyfician to the prince, in which office he 
died in 1778. In 1741 he was elefted a member of the 
Imperial Academy of the Searchers into Nature, under 
the name of Aretaeus II. The fame honour was conferred 
on him by the Royal Society of London, in 1750; by the 
Medical Society of Bade, in 1754; and by the Academy 
of Sciences at Berlin, in 1760. His principal works are, 
1. Commentado de Medulla Spinali, Jpeciatim de Nervis ab ea 
proveniendbus, cum icon. Goett. 1741, 4to. 2. Commentado de 
Vagina Uteri StruLlura rugofa, nec non de Hymene, 1742, 4to. 
A letter of his may be feen in the forty-fixth volume of 
the Philofophical TranfaCtions, De Cadavere aperto in quo 
non exijlit Vefeca fellea & de Sterno gibbofo. 
HU'BER (Mary), an ingenious philofophical and mif- 
cellaneous writer, born at Geneva, and died at Lyons in 
1753. She poftefted knowledge and genius; but her writ¬ 
ings are fometimes obfcure, particularly her metaphyfical 
pieces, owing to the want of fuificient precifion and dif- 
tinctnefs in the development of her ideas. The foilow’- 
ing are the titles of fome of her principal productions : 
1. Le Monde fou, prefer e au Monde /age, 1731—1744, nmo. 
2. Le Syfteme dcs Theologiens anciens £? modernes, Jur I’Etat 
des Amesfeparecs des Corps, 1731-1739, 12100. 3. Suite du 
me me Ouvrage, fervant de Reponfe a M. Ruchat, 1733—1739, 
i2mo. 4. Lett res Jur la Religion ejfcndelle a la Homme, 1739 
and 1754, in 6 vols. nmo. 5. Reduction du SpeLlatrur 
Anglois, in 6 vols. nmo. 
HU'BERT, [of hepe, colour, and beojit, clear, Sax.] 
A proper name. 
HU'BERT (Matthew), a French writer and divine, was 
born at Chatillon, in 1640. He received his education at 
the college of the fathers of the oratory at Mans, where 
for fome time he filled the office of claffical inltructor 
with applaufe. Being admitted into holy orders, his fame 
for pulpit eloquence foon fpread abroad, and he met with 
numerous admirers as he preached fucceffively in the pro¬ 
vinces, at Paris, and before the court. He died in 1717, 
at the age of feventy-feven. Six volumes of his Sermons 
were publilhed by father Monteuil, in 1725, in nmo. 
which by perfons of piety and tafte were as much ap¬ 
proved in the clofet, as they had been formerly admired 
from the pulpit. 
HU'BERTSBERG, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, with a magnificent hunting-feat, built by Au- 
guftus III. then electoral prince; remarkable for a peace 
made here between the kings of Pruffia and Poland and 
the emprefs queen: three miles north-eaft of Mutlchen. 
HUB'KOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Volhynia : fixty-four miles north-weft of Zytomiers. 
HUB NER (John), a learned geographer of Germany, 
taught geography at Leipfic and Hamburgh with extraor¬ 
dinary reputation, and died at Hamburgh in 1732, aged 
fixty-three. His principal work is A Geographical Trea- 
tife, printed at Bafil in 1746, in 6 vols. 121110. 
HUCKABACK, f. A kind of linen on which the 
figures are raifed. 
HUCK'ESWAGEN, a town of Germany, in Weftpha- 
lia, and duchy of Berg: twenty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Dufleldorp. 
HUCK'LEBACKED, adj. [hocker, Germ.] Crooked in 
the Ihoulders. 
HUCK'LEBONE,yi [from huckeu, Dut. to fit down.] 
The hipbone. 
HUCK'STER, or Hucic'sTERER.yi [hock, Ger. a ped¬ 
lar; hockjlcr , a Ihe pedlar.] One who fells goods by retail, 
or 
