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meadows on the banks of the Oufe that are to be feen hi 
England. This county was formerly the greateft part 
of it foreft-land. 
HUN'TINGTON (Robert), a learned Englilh divine, 
born at Deorhyrft, in Gloucelterfhire, of which place his 
father was minifter, in 1636. At the age of fixteen he 
was entered of Merton college, in the univerfity of Ox¬ 
ford, of which he became a fellow. In the year 1670 he 
was appointed chaplain to the Englilh factory at Aleppo, 
which appointment he retained for eleven years, during 
which time he particularly applied himfelf to the difco- 
very and colleftion of ancient manufcripts. In this un¬ 
dertaking he was employed by bilhops Marlh and Fell, 
and other public-fpirited perlons in England. To fuc- 
ceed in it, he travelled, not only through the diftri&s 
adjoining to Aleppo, but to feveral diltant provinces. 
After carefully vifiting almoft all Galilee and Samaria, 
and examining the opinions, culloms, religious ceremo¬ 
nies, and religious books, particularly the copy of the 
Pentateuch^ belonging to the remains of the ancient Sa¬ 
maritans at Naplofa, he took a journey to Jerufalem. In 
1677 he made a voyage to Cyprus, for the purpofe ot 
examining the library of Hilarion Cigala, archbifhop of 
Juftiniana Nova, and primate of that ifland ; but he was 
not able to Obtain an interview with that prelate, who 
was then obliged to abfcond, on account of defigns 
formed by the Turks againft his life or liberty. During 
the following year he undertook a difficult and dangerous 
journey to view the ruins of Palmyra; but was prevented 
from examining thole beautiful remains of ancient art by 
two Arab chiefs, who had taken poireffion of that diftrict. 
In a journey to Egypt in 1680 he met with better fuc- 
cefs, and had the opportunity of collefting feveral curio- 
fities and manufcripts, as well as the pleafure of converfing 
with John Lafcaris, archbifhop of Mount Sinai. At 
length, Mr. Huntington became impatient to -return to 
his native country, and, upon the arrival of his fuccelTor 
in 1682, embarked, and landed in Italy. After vifiting 
Rome, Naples, and other confiderable places in that 
country, and taking alfo Paris in his way, he arrived 
lafe in England, and immediately retired to his fellowfhip 
in Merton college. In 1683, he took the degrees of ba¬ 
chelor and doftor of divinity; and about the .fame time, 
through the recommendation of bilhop Fell, was appointed 
malter of Trinity college in Dublin, which he refigned 
in 1690. In 1691 he fold for feven hundred pounds his 
fine collection of manufcripts, about fix hundred in num¬ 
ber, to die curators of the Bodleian library, having before 
made a prefent to that library of feveral valuable ones. 
In 1692 he was prefented to the reftory of Great Halling- 
bury, in EfTex; foon after which he married. About 
that time he was offered the bifhopric of Kilmore and 
Ardagh in Ireland, which he refufed. However, in 1701, 
he accepted of the bifhopric of Raphoe, in that kingdom ; 
but he furvived his confecration only twelve days, dying 
in the fixty-fixth year of his age. He communicated 
nothing himfelf to the public, excepting an Account of 
the Porphyry Pillars in Egypt, inferted in the 161ft num¬ 
ber of the Philofophical Tranfaftions. Some of his Ob- 
fervations are printed in A Collection of curious Travels 
■and Voyages, in two volumes oCtavo, pubiifhed by Mr. J. 
Ray; and thirty-nine of his Letters, chiefly written by 
him while abroad, were pubiifhed by Dr. T. Smith, at the 
end of his life. 
HUNT'LY, a town of Scotland, in the county of Aber¬ 
deen, on the borders of Banfffhire, with a caftle belonging 
to the duke of Gordon, who is likewife marquis of 
Huntly : twenty-eight miles north-weft of Aberdeen, and 
fifteen fouth-fouth-weft of Banff. 
HUN'TORP, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia, and 
county of Oldenburg: nine miles north-eaft of Oldenburg. 
HUN'TRESS, J. A woman that follows the chace.— 
Homer reprefents Diana with her quiver at her fhoulder; 
but at the fame tinie he defcribes her as a huntrefs. Broome. 
HUH 
Let old Arcadia boaft her ample plain, 
Th’ immortal huntrefs , and her virgin train ; 
Nor envy Windfor. Pope. 
HUNTS BAY, a bay on the fouth coaft of the ifland 
of Jamaica. Lat. 17. 52. W. Ion. 76. 49. W. Greenwich. 
HUNTS-UP',/! [probably derived from the firft words 
of an old ballad, The Hunt is up.~\ The name of a tune: 
No fooner doth the earth her flow’ry bo.fom brave, 
At fuch time as the year brings on the pleafant lpring, 
But hunts-up to the morn the feather’d fylvans ring. 
Drayton. 
HUNTS'BURG, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Franklin county in Vermont, fituated on the Canada line. 
HUNTS'MAN,y! One who delights in the chace: 
Such game, whilft yet the world was new. 
The mighty Nimrod did purfue: 
What kuntfman of our feeble race. 
Or dogs, dare fuch a monfter chafe ? Waller. 
The fervant wliofe office it is to manage the chafe.—Apply 
this moral rather to the huntfman, that managed the chafe, 
than to the malter. L'EJlrange. 
IIUNTS'MANSHIP,y; The qualifications of a hunter: 
At court your fellows every day, 
Give the art of rhiming, huntjmdnjhip , or play. Donne. 
HUNTS'VILLE, a poft town of the American States, 
in North Carolina : ten miles from Bethania, and fixteen 
from Rockford. 
HUN'YAD, a town of Tranfllvania, on a fmall river, 
which runs into the Maros: fifty-four miles eaft-north-ealt 
of Temefvar, and forty-four fouth-weft of Hermenftadt. 
HUP'HAM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HUP'H AMITE, y. A defeendant of Hupham. 
HU'PY-LE-SEC, a town of France, in the department 
of the Somme, and chief place of a canton, in the diltrift 
of Abbeville : two leagues fouth of Abbeville. 
HUR, [Heb. liberty.] A man’s name. 
HU'RA,/ [the Mexican vernacular name.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs monoecia, order monadelphia, natural 
order of tricoccse, (euphorbia;, JuJf.) The generic cha¬ 
racters are—I. Male flowers. Calyx: ament from the diva¬ 
rication of the branches, oblong, drooping, covered with 
feffile fpreading florets, feales oblong. Perianthium 
within each fcale of the ament, cylindric, two-leaved, 
truncate, very fliort. Corolla: none. Stamina: filament 
cylindric, a little longer than the calyx, peltate at the tip, 
rigid, below the tip twice or thrice verticelled with tu¬ 
bercles ; antherse two, immerfed in each tubercle, oval, 
bifid. II. Female flower in the fame plant. Calyx: 
Perianthium one-leafed, cylindric, furrowed, truncate, 
quite entire, clolely furrounding the germ. Corolla: 
none. Piftillum : germ rounaifh, within the calyx; ftyle 
cylindric ; long ; ftigma large, funnel-ffiaped, plano-con¬ 
vex, coloured, twelve-cleft, blunt, equal. Pericarpium: 
woody, orbiculate, or globular-flatted, torofe, with twelve 
furrows, twelve-celled ; cells diflilient, crefcent-fhaped, 
with an elaftic dagger-point at the end ; feeds folitary, com- 
preffed, fub-orbiculate, large.— Ejjential Charatter. Male. 
Ament imbricated ; perianthium truncated; corolla none; 
filament cylindrical, peltate at the tip, lurrounded by very 
many antherse in pairs. Female. Calyx and corolla none; 
ftyle funnel-form; ftigma twelve-cleft; capfule twelve- 
celled ; feed one. 
I-Iura crepitans, or fand-box tree : a Angle fpecies. 
It grows naturally in the Spanifh Weft Indies, whence 
it has been introduced into the Britifh colonies of 
America, where fome of the plants are preferved by 
way of curiofity. It rifes with a loft woody Item to the 
height of twenty-four feet, dividing into many branches, 
which abound with a milky juice, and have fears on their 
bark, where the leaves have fallen off. The branches are 
garnillied with heart-fhaped leaves; thofe. which are big- 
