A NEW CYCLOPÆDIA, COMPREHENDING A COMPLETE SERIES OF Essays, Treatises, and Systems, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED; WITH A GENERAL DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, AND WORDS: THE WHOLE PRESENTING A DISTINCT SURVEY OF Human Genius, Learning, and Industry. ILLUSTRATED WITH ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS; THOSE ON NATURAL HISTORY BEING FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY EDWARDS AND OTHERS, AND BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED AFTER NATURE. BY JOHN MASON GOOD, ESQ. F.R.S. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA; OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D. OF THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH, AND HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE; AND MR. NEWTON BOSWORTH, OF CAMBRIDGE; ASSISTED BY OTHER GENTLEMEN OF EMINENCE, IN DIFFERENT VOL. VI. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. KEARSLEY; J. WALKER; J. STOCKDALE; R. LEA; E. JEFFERY; CROSBY AND CO.; SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES; SUTTABY, EVANCE, AND CO.; J. BLACKLOCK; W.LOWE; J. BOOTH; J. RODWELL; BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; ERASH AND reid, glasgOW; AND M. KEENE, DUBLIN. 1813. PANTOLOGIA. HON HO-NAN, a province of China, bounded on the north by Chan-si and Pe-tche-li, on the east by Kiang-nan and Chan-tong, on the south by Hou-quang, and on the west by Chen-si. The Chinese call it Tong-hoa, which signifies the flower of the middle; it contains eight cities of the first rank. The whole province is a plain, except towards the west, where it is mountainous; it is well watered with rivers, great and small; the air is temperate and healthy; it produces corn, rice, and fruit in great abundance and variety. The Hoang crosses it from west to east. Ho-NAN, a city of China, of the first rank, and capital of the province of Ho-nan, supposed formerly by the Chinese to have been the centre of the world, because it is in the rentre of their empire; 360 miles SSW. of Peking. Lat. 34. 44 N. Lon. 112. 9 E. HONDIUS (Abraham), a Dutch painter of landscapes, animals, &c. was born at Rotterdam, in 1638. His manner was peculiarly bold and free, and there is a great deal of fire in his composition. His most capital picture is the burning of Troy, in which there is great variety of figures well designed and disposed with judgment. He died in 1691. HONDURAS, a province of Mexico, in North America, bounded on the north by a gulf to which it gives name, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Nicaragua, and on the west by Guatimala and Vera Paz ; 130 leagues from east to west, and fifty from north to south. The country consists of mountains, valleys, and plains, watered by a great number of rivers. It was formerly one of the most populous countries of America; at preVOL, VI. HON sent, though exceedingly fertile, almost a desert. The soil in many parts bears Indian corn three times a-ycar; other productions are wheat, peas, cotton, wool, log-wood, with excellent pastures, honey, wax, and provisions of all kinds. Among other vegetables are large gourds, which the Indians call hibueras, and the first discoverer seeing many of them floating along the coast, called the bay Golfo de Hibueras, and the province itself Hibuera: yet afterwards finding very deep water at the great cape of this country, they called it Cabo de Honduras, that is, The Promontory of Depth, and the country itself Honduras. The vineyards bear thrice a year; for immediately after the vintage, the vines are cut again, and the second grapes are ripe before Christmas. The ancient inhabitants being extremely slothful, sowed so sparingly, that they were often in want, and forced to feed on roots, and even on vermin and carrion. A great deal of logwood is cut on the coast of the bay, chiefly by Englishmen; there are said to be 1500 logwood cutters, masters, besides servants. The bay is situated west of the Caribbean Sea, between Cape Catoche and Cape Honduras. There are several small islands, and formerly there was a considerable pearl fishery, now neglected. The principal towns are Valadolid, the capital, Truxillo, Gracias-a-Dios, and St. Jago. HONDUROS, a town of the island of Cuba; 63 miles NE. Bayamo. HONE. s. (hæn, Saxon, a stone; hænan, to stone.) A whetstone for a razor (Tusser). To HONE. v. n. (hongian, Saxon.) To pine; to long for any thing. B |