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NEW GUlN'EA. See Guinea, vol. viii. p. 90. 
NEW HAMP'SHIRE, one of the United States of 
America, extending 16S miles in length, 90 in its greatelf, 
and 19 in its leaft breadth, between lat. 42. 4.1. and 45, 
30. N. and Ion. 2. 41. and 4. 29. E. from Philadelphia 5 
bounded north by the province of Lower Canada, eaft by 
the diftridt of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean, fouth by 
Maflachufetts, weft by the weftern bank of Connedlicut- 
river; and containing 9491 fquare miles, or 6,074,240 
acres, of which at leaft 100,000 acres are water. Popu¬ 
lation in 1810, 214,414. This ftate is divided into lix 
counties, which are fubdivided into 214 townlhips and 
locations, moft of which are about fix miles fquare. The 
names of thefe counties, and their chief towns, are as 
follow : 
Chief Towns. 
Portfmouth, Exeter, and Concord. 
* Dover and Durham. 
Amhurft. 
- Keene and Charlefton. 
Counties. 
Rockingham 
Stratford 
Hilllborough 
Chefhire 
Grafton 
Coos 
- Lancafter. 
The principal harbour for (hips in this ftate, which has 
but about eighteen miles of fea-coaft at its fouth-eaft, 
corner, is the entrance of Pifcataqua-river. The more 
remarkable high lands do not appear nearer to the fea 
than about twenty or thirty miles. The firft ridge is de¬ 
nominated the Blue Hills, which pafs through Rochefter, 
Barrington, and Nottingham ; beyond which are feveral 
higher detached mountains. The third ridge confifts of 
higher mountains, of which the principal are Chocorua, 
Offapy, and Kyafarge. Beyond thefe is the lofty ridge 
which divides the branches of Connedlicut and Merrimack 
rivers, denominated the Height of Land. In this ridge 
is the celebrated Monadnock Mountain ; thirty miles 
north of this is Sunapee ; and forty-eight miles farther is 
Moofehillock Mountain. This ridge is then continued 
northerly, dividing the waters of the river Connedticut 
from thofe of Saco and Amerifcoggin. Here the moun¬ 
tains rife much higher, the moft elevated fummits of 
which are the White Mountains. The lands weft of this 
ridge, bordering on Connedlicut-river, are interfperfed 
with extenfive meadows or intervals, rich and well-wa¬ 
tered. Five of the largeft ftreams in New England receive 
more or lefs of their waters from this ftate: thefe are 
Connecticut, Amerifcoggin, Saco, Merrimack, and Pifca- 
taqua, rivers. The principal lakes in this ftate are, Win- 
nipifcogee, Umbagog, Squam, Sunapee, Great Offapy, and 
Maffabefick Pond. 
The foil in New Hamplhire is very various; the moft 
valuable is that which lies contiguous to the larger rivers, 
becaufe it is annually overflowed, and thus enriched : 
lands of this kind yield wheat, and other kinds of grain, 
in the greateft perfection; but they are not fo good for 
pallure as the uplands of a proper quality. Apples and 
pears are the moft common, and the principal, fruits cul¬ 
tivated in this ftate. The chief bufinefs of the inhabi¬ 
tants is agriculture. The principal articles of export 
from this ftate are pine-boards, oak-plank, ftaves and 
heading, clap-boards, Ihingles, hoops, oars, rafters, malts, 
'pars, Ihook-hoglheads, filh dried and pickled, whale-oil, 
tar, flax-feed, beef, corn, oxen and cows, horfes, llieep, 
New-England rum, bricks, pottery, and pearl-allies, &c. 
The imports confift of Weft-India rum, gin, molaffes, 
wine, porter, fugars, tea, coffee, cotton, cheele, nails, 
cordage, twine, fait, lea-coal, Heel, lead, and grind-ftones. 
The people in this country generally manufacture their 
own clothing, and confiderable quantities of tow-cloth 
for exportation. 
By an act of affembly in 1792, a bank, under the ftyle of 
the Bank of New Hamplhire, was eftablilhed at Portf¬ 
mouth, to continue fifty years, under the management of 
a prefident and feven directors. The largeft town in New 
Hamplhire is Portsmouth, which fee. The conllitu- 
tion of this ftate is fimilar to that of Maffaclnifetts. The 
firft difcovery of any part of New Hamplhire was in 1614; 
and the firft fettlement was made in 1623. MorJ'e's Geng. 
NEW HAMP'TON, a poll-town of America, in New 
Hamplhire, Stratford-county, on the weft fide of Lake 
Winnipifcogee, nine miles fouth-eaft of Plymouth, in¬ 
corporated in 1777.—Alfo, a poll-town in Hunterdon- 
county, New Jerfey : 217 miles from Wafnington. 
NEW HAN'OVER, a maritime county of Wilming¬ 
ton diftriCt, North Carolina, extending from Cape Fear- 
river north-eaft along the Atlantic Ocean. The chief 
town is Wilmington.—Alfo, a townlhip in Burlington- 
county, New Jerfey, containing about 20,000 acres of 
improved land, and a large quantity that is barren and 
uncultivated. The compaCt part is called New Mills, 
containing about fifty houfes : twenty-feven miles from 
Philadelphia.—Alfo, a townlhip in Morgan-county, Penn- 
fylvania.—Alfo, a county of North Carolina, in the dif- 
triCl of Wilmington, containing 5371 inhabitants, of 
whom 2933 are Haves. 
NEW HAR'TFORD, a fmall poll-town in Litchfield- 
county, Connecticut: fourteen miles north-eaft of Litch¬ 
field. 
NEW'-HEALED, aclj. Lately healed, orclofed: 
Left by a multitude 
The neW'heal'd wound of malice Ihould break out. Shakefp. 
NEW HEB'RIDES, or Hebudes, a group of illands 
in the South Pacific Ocean, to the fouth eaft of Solomon’s 
Illands, and in that fifth divifion of the world now called 
Avftralafia; particularly furveyed, with regard to their 
fituation and extent, by Capt. Cook, in the year 1774. 
The northern illands of this archipelago were firft difeo- 
vered by Quiros in 1606, and conlidered by him as part 
of the fouthern continent, which at that time, and till 
very lately, was fuppofed to exift. They were next vi- 
fited by M. de Bougainville in 1768 ; who, befides land¬ 
ing on the Ille of Lepers, did no more than difeoverthat 
the land was not conneCled, but compofed of illands, 
which he called the Great Cyclades. Capt. Cook furveyed 
the whole, and difeovered feveral new ones which were 
not known before, and named them the Neiv Hebrides. 
They are fituated between lat. 14. 29. and 20. 4. S. and 
between Ion. 166. 41. and 170. 21. E. from Greenwich; 
and confift of the following illands, fome of which have 
received names from the different European navigators, 
and others retain the names which they bear among the 
natives ; viz. Tierra Aullral, del Efpiritu Santo, St. Bar¬ 
tholomew, Mallicollo, Pic de l’Etoile, Aurora, Ille of 
Lepers, Whitfuntide, Ambrym, Paoon, Shepherds’ Illes, 
Sandwich, Erromango, Immer, Tana, Erronan, Anne- 
tom, Apee, Three Hills, Montagu, Hinchinbrook, and 
Erromanga ; which fee refpeClively. 
Quiros, who firft difeovered thefe illands, deferibes 
them, as “ richer and more fertile than Spain, and as po¬ 
pulous as they are fertile ; watered with fine rivers, and 
producing filver, pearls, nutmegs, mace, pepper, ginger, 
ebony of the firft quality, wood for. the conftrudlion of 
veffels, and plants which might be fabricated into Fail- 
cloth and cordages, one fort of which is not unlike the 
hemp of Europe.” The inhabitants of thefe illands he 
deferibes as of feveral different races of men ; black, 
white, mulatto, tawny, and copper-coloured ; a proof, 
he fuppofes, of their intercourle with various people. 
They ufe no fire-arms, are employed in no mines, nor 
have they any of thofe means of deftrudlion which the 
genius of Europe has invented. Induftry and policy 
feem to have made but little progrefs among them : they 
build neither towns nor fortreffes ; acknowledge neither 
king nor laws; and are divided only into tribes, among 
which there does not always lubfill a perfect harmony. 
Their arms are the bow and arrows, the fpear and the 
dart, all made of wood. Their only covering is a gar¬ 
ment round the waill, which reaches to the middle of the 
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