HAMBURG, a free Imperial city, and chief of the _Hanse_ towns, seated on the north side of the _Elbe_, 152. Besieged in 1686 by the king of _Denmark_, 153. The religion, government, dress, funerals, and trade of the inhabitants, with the English company of merchants there, _ibid._ Famous for Rhenish wine and fine loaf sugar, 156. An account of the opera house, and a model of Solomon’s temple, 157. The language and manners of the inhabitants, 158. The detestable practice of melancholy persons, and infamous character of a monstrous virago there, _ib._ HANOVER, the chief city of that electorate, described, 151. An account of the Electoral family, _ib._ HARACH, a _pole tax_ laid upon Christians by the Turks, 42. HARBURG, a town in _Lunenburg_, 152. HARDA, a river running into the _Hebrus_ at _Adrianople_, 63. HAREM, a Turkish word for _women_, or the _womens apartment_, 32, 38. In the Arabic language it signifies _things forbidden_. HARLEM, a town in _Holland_, which claims the invention of printing, 167. HASANOGLI, the _mosque_ at _Magnesia_, where he was buried, held in great veneration by the Turks, 11. HASE, a river in _Westphalia_. 161. HASELUN, a town in _Westphalia_, _ib._ HATWAN, a town in _Hungary_, 109. HEBRVS, a famous river of _Thrace_, 62. HELLESPONT, now called the _Dardanells_, flows perpetually into the _Aegean_ sea, 35. Its breadth, 61. HENS of _Grand Cairo_ described, 46. HERACLEA, a city of _Thrace_, 38. HERMANNVS, founder of _Hermanstadt_, his statue there, 92. HERMANSTADT, a city in _Transylvania_, L. Paget’s entertainment there, 90. Inscriptions there, 91. Its government, 92. HERMVS, a famous river in _Ionia_ described, 5, 56. HESSEN, a small village in _Saxony_, the Duke of _Brunswick’s_ house there, 146. HEUSLER, _General_, defeated and taken by Count _Tekely_ near _Rosnaw_ in _Transylvania_, 87. HILDESHEIM, a city of _Lower Saxony_, 146. HIPPIVS, a river near the city _Prusia_, 51. HOGIA, a Turkish word signifying a _learned man_, an _instructor_, or _teacher_, 69. HOLIBRUN, a town in _Austria_, 131. HOLTHENVS _Edvardus_, a learned divine of _Utrecht_, who was then publishing the new edition of _Gruter_, 169. HOLY SEPULCHER, certain rents at _Bucurest_ in _Valachia_ consigned for the use of it, 80. HOMER, an old manuscript of him in the university library at _Leipsick_, 143. HONSLARDYKE, a palace of K. _William_ near the _Hague_, 166. HORSE TAILS, two allowed by the Turks to be carried before the prince of _Valachia_, 81. HOST, see DE BARIAS _Didacus_. HOUND SLAYER, his office at _Baden_, 128. HOUR in _traveling_, about three English miles, 5. See Dr. _Shaw’s_ _Preface_ to his _Travels_, p. ix. HOUSES in _Hungary_ made under ground, 108.