Hakluyt
RICHARD (hak'löt), an English author; born about 1553; was educated at Oxford University. He was the author of "Four Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and Islands Adjacent to the Same" (1582); "Four Voyages to Florida" (1587); "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries Made by the English Nation"; etc. He died Oct. 23, 1616.
HAKODATE (hä-kō-dä'tā), the chief port of Yezo, Japan, situated on a peninsula in the Strait of Tsugaru. The town is built partly on the inner slope of the Gibraltar-like hill (1,200 feet) which dominates the strait, partly on the low, sandy peninsula connecting the hill with the main island. The climate is severe.
Hakodate, which has a magnificent harbor, is (since 1859) one of the open ports of Japan, and carries on a brisk export trade in seaweed, sulphur, bêche de mer, salted salmon, matches, etc. Pop. about 102,400.
HAL (häl), a town in South Brabant, Belgium; 9 miles S. S. W. from Brussels.
The church of St. Mary (1341-1409) is much resorted to by pilgrims on account of a black miracle-working wooden image of the Virgin, which during a bombardment in 1580 caught 33 cannon-balls in her lap-they lay piled up in the tower.
Pop. about 14,300.
HALBERSTADT (hälber-stät), a quaint old town of Prussian Saxony; in a fertile plain extending from the N. foot of the Harz Mountains, 25 miles S. W. of Magdeburg. The cathedral, containing painted glass, and valuable antiquities and objects of art, restored in 1850-1871, is the most notable building in the town. It was erected in the 13th and 14th centuries in the Pointed style.
Other buildings of interest are the church of Our Lady (1146), with antique reliefs and wall-paintings; the town house (1360-1381), before which stands a Roland pillar; the wine cellar beneath the town house; and the Peterhof, formerly the residence of the bishops.
The chief industries of the town are gloves, cigars, machines, sugar, leather, paper, spirits, etc.; and there are also large workshops for railway repairs.
Halberstadt dates from 820, the year in which the see was transplanted from Osterwieck to the site of the town of century; and was held alternately by the 998; was twice burned down in the 12th Halberstadt. It received town rights in 998; was twice burned down in the 12th century; and was held alternately by the Swedes and Imperialists during the Thirty Years' War. In 1684 it was given to Brandenburg. Pop. about 46,500. was educated at Edinburgh Academy; Edinburgh and Göttingen universities, statesman. He was born in 1856 and was educated at Edinburgh Academy; Edinburgh and Göttingen universities, receiving the M. A. degree, 1st Class ford Lecturer in St. Andrew's Univercoming Gray Scholar and Ferguson Scholar in Philosophy of Four Scottish to represent Haddingtonshire as a liberal sity, 1902-1904. In 1885 he was elected ford Lecturer in St. Andrew's University, 1902-1904. In 1885 he was elected During 1905-1912 he was Secretary of to represent the same seat till 1911. in the House of Commons, continuing in the House to represent the same seat till 1911.
During 1905-1912 he was Secretary of State for War, becoming Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1912 and holding the office till 1915. He is a member of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council; LL. D.; Rector of Edinburgh University; and Chancellor of the University of Bristol. He has written much, his works including: "Essays in Philosophical cal Criticism" (with Professor Seth); "Life of Adam Smith"; "Education and Empire"; "The Pathway to Reality." He translated, with the co- "World as Will and Idea." operation of Mr. Kemp, Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Idea." an