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tnuft undoubtedly have been produced by fome mighty 
convulfion in nature. The tide flows a few miles above 
Albany, which is 160 miles from New York. It is navi¬ 
gable for Hoops of eighty tons to Albany, and for fhips 
to Huqfori. Ship-navigation to Albany is interrupted by 
a nujnberof illancjs, and fhoals fix or eight miles below the 
city, called the Overflaugh. It has been in contemplation 
to confine the river to one channel, by which means it 
will be deepened, and the difficulty of approaching Al¬ 
bany with veffels of n larger lize be removed. About 
fiixfy miles above New York the water becomes frefli. 
The river is itored with a variety of filh, which .renders a 
fiimmer paffage to Albany delightful and amufing to thofe 
who are fond of angling. The advantages of this river 
for carrying on the fur-trade with Canada, by means of 
the lakes, are very great. Its conveniences for internal 
commerce are alio Angularly happy. The produce of the 
remoteft fettlements is eafily and fpeediiy conveyed to a 
certain and profitable market, and at the loweft expence. 
In this refpecl, New York has greatly the advantage of 
Philadelphia. The increafing population of the fertile 
lands upon the northern branches of Hudfon, mult annu¬ 
ally increafe the amazing wealth that is conveyed by its 
waters to New York. The northern and weltern canals, 
when completed, will be of incalculable advantage to the 
trade of this ftate. 
HUD'SON’s RIV'ER, a broad but fliort river of the 
American States, emptying into Chefapeak Bay, in Dor- 
chelter county, Maryland. Hill’s Point, north-ealt of it, 
Ihapes the broad mouth of the river. 
HUD'SON’s STRAITS, or Frobisher’s-Mistaken- 
Straits, the narrow lea, between the Atlantic Ocean 
and Hudfon’s Bay, north of Labrador. 
HUDSO'NIA, f. Lfo named by Linnaeus, in honour of 
William Hud/on, apothecary of London, F. R. S. and author 
of Flora Anglica, noticed at p. 440.] In botany, a genus 
of the ciafs dodecandria, prder monogynia, natural order of 
bicornes ? (erica:, Jujf.) The generic charadfers are—Ca¬ 
lyx perianthium three-leaved, tubular, cylindric, with a 
patulous mouth; leaflets lanceolate-linear, blunt. Co¬ 
rolla: filaments fifteen, capillary, fnorter than the calyx ; 
anthers roundifin. Piftiilum : germ luperior, ovate; Ityle 
filiform, the length of the calyx ; ftigma blunt. Pericar- 
pittm : capfule cylindric, fitorter by half than the calyx, 
one-celled, three-valved. Seeds : three, rounded on one 
fide, angular on the other.— EJferitial CharaB.tr. Calyx 
five-leaved, (three-leaved above, three-parted, Ju/f.) tu¬ 
bular; corolla none; (petals five, very fmall, Berg.) { la¬ 
mina fifteen ; capfule one-ceiled, three-valved, three- 
feeded- 
Hudfonia ericoides, a fingle fpecies. It is a Ihrub with 
the appearance and habit of Erica, or heath. Branchlefs 
filiform, leattered, imbricate ; leaves fubulate-acerofe, hir- 
fute. Native of Virginia. 
HUE, [from luepe, Sax.] Colour; die.—Flow’rs of all 
hue, and without thorn the rofe. Milton „ 
Your’s is much of the camelion hue. 
To change the die with diftant view- Dryden. 
HUE and CRY, \_lmtejium et clamor-, from the French 
words huer and crier, to Ihout, or cry aloud.] Manwood, 
in his Foreft Law, c. 19, fays,that hue in Latin is vox do- 
Icntjs, as dignifying die complaint of the party; and cry is 
the purfuit ol the felon upon the highway upon that com¬ 
plaint; for if the party robbed, or any in the company 
of one robbed or murdered, come to the confta’ole of the 
next town, and defire him to raife the hue and cry, that 
is, make the complaint known, and follow’ the puriuit af¬ 
ter’the offender, 'delcribing the party, and fhowing as 
near as he can w'hich way he went; the conftable is forth¬ 
with to call upon the parilh for aid in feeking the felon, 
and, if he be not found there, then to give the next con- 
ltable notice, and the next, until the offender be appre¬ 
hended, or at lead until he be thus purfued unto the fea- 
fide. See BraBon, lib. 3. c. 5 ; and the fat. of Wtuchejler, 
13 Edw. I. j, 4. Edw. III. 11. 27 Ehz. 13. 
HUE 
Hue and cry, (fays BlackPcone,) is the old common-law 
procefs, of purfuing, with horn and with voice, all felons, 
and fucli as have dangeroufty wounded another. The 
principal ftatute relative to this matter, is that of Win- 
chefter, 13 Edw. I. c. 1, 4, which direfls, that from 
henceforth every county fit all be fo well kept, that imme¬ 
diately upon robberies and felonies committed, frefit fiuit 
fhall be made from town to tow'rt, and from county to 
county; and that hue and cry fhall be railed upon the 
felons, and they that keep the town fhall follow with hue 
and cry, with all the town and the towns near; and fo 
hue and cry fhall be made from town to town, until they 
be takeirand delivered to, the fheriff. And, that fuch 
hue and cry may more effectually be made,, the hundred 
is bound by the fume ftatute, c. 3, to anfwer for all rob¬ 
beries therein committed, unlefs they. take the felon ; 
which is the foundation of an action againft the hundred 
in cafe of any lots l>y robbery. By fiat. 27 Eliz. c. 13, 
no hue and cry is fufitment, unlefs made with both horfe- 
men and footmen. And by ftat. 8 Geo. II. c. 16, the ccn- 
ftable or like officer refuting or neglecting to make hue 
and cry, forfeits five pounds, half to the king and half to 
the profecutor, with full cofts ; and the whole vill or dif- 
tri’Ct is ft i 1.1 in ltriftnefs liable to be amerced, according 
to the law of Alfred, if any felony be committed therein, 
and the felon efcapes. Hue and cry may be raifed either 
by precept of a jultice of the peace, or by a peace-officer, 
or by any private man that knows of a felony. 2 Hal. P. C. 
104. The party railing it mult acquaint the conftable of 
the viil with all the circumftances which he knows of the 
felon)’, and the perfon of the felon ; and thereupon the 
conftable is to fearch his own town, and raife all the 
neighbouring vills, and make purfuit with horle and foot; 
and in the profecution of fuch hue and cry the conftable 
and his attendants have the fame powers, protection, and 
indemnification, as if afting under the warranpof a jultice 
of peace. But if a man wantonly or malieioufly raifes a 
hue and cry, without caule, he fhall be feverely punifhed 
as a dilturber of the public peace. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 12. 
It is incumbent upon conftables to purfue hue and cry 
w'hen called upon, and they are feverely punifhable if they 
neglect it; and it prevents many inconveniences if they 
be there; for it gives a greater authority to their purfuit, 
and enables the purluant, in his affiftance, to plead the 
general iflue upon the ltatutes 7 Jac.I. c. 5. 21 jac. I. c. 12.. 
without being driven to fpecial pleading-; therefore, to 
prevent inconveniences which may happen by unrulinefs, 
it is mafl advifeable that the conftable be called ; yet 
upon a robbery, or other felony committed, hue and cry 
may be raifed by the country in the abfence of the con¬ 
ftable ; and in this there is no inconvenience, for, if hue 
and cry be raifed without caule, they that raife it are 
punifhable by fine and imprifonment. 
The regular method of levying hue and cry is for the 
party to go to the conftanle of the next town, and declare 
the fact, and deferibe the offender, and thew'ay lie is.gone; 
whereupon the conftable ought immediately, whether it 
be night or day, to raife his own town, and make fearch 
for the offender ; and, upon the not finding him, to fend 
the like notice, with the utmoft expedition, to the confta¬ 
bles of all the neighbouring towns, who ought in like 
manner to fearch for the offender, and alfo to give notice 
to their neighbouring conftables, and they to the next, 
till the offender be found. 2 Hawk. P. C. 75. If a perfon. 
purfued by hue and cry be in a houfe, and the doors are 
Ihut, and refufed to be opened upon demand of the con- 
liable, and notice given of his buiinefs, he may break open 
the doors; for it is for the king and commonwealth, and 
therefore a virtual non omittas is in the cafe; and the fame 
law is upon a dangerous wound given, and a hue and cry 
levied upon the offender. 7 Edw. III. c. 16. But the con¬ 
ftable cannot break open the doors barely to fearch, un¬ 
lefs the perfon againft whom the hue and cry is levied be 
there, and then it is true lie may; therefore, in cafe of 
fuch a fearch, the breaking open the door i -.'at his peril, 
viz. juftifiable if he be there-; but it mull be always re¬ 
membered. 
