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Huntingdonshire – Hya-Hya

Huntingdonshire

an east-midland county of England, with an area of about 365 square miles. It is almost agricultural or pasture land, producing most of the standard vegetables. There are manufactures of paper, parchment, and tile. Pop. about 56,000. The capital is Huntingdon.

Hunza-Nagar

the valley (containing the forts of Hunza and Nagar) of a river running into the Gilgit, at the extreme N. W. corner of Kashmir. Together with Kanjut, the upper part of the same valley, it became British in 1891.

Huon Islands

a group 170 miles N. W. of New Caledonia, in the Pacific Ocean. They belong to France, and are among the Australasia and Oceania dependencies administered from New Caledonia. They are most barren, and few Europeans live there.

Hureaulite

a hydrous phosphate of the oxides of iron and manganese, occurring in small, yellow, reddish, or nearly colorless crystals, at Limoges, commune of Hureaux, France. an

Huron

a city of South Dakota, the county seat of Beadle co. It is on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Great Northern railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and stock-

Huron

LAKE raising region and is the division headquarters of the Northwestern railroad. It has flour mills, machine shops, grain elevators, and other industries. It is the seat of Huron College and has a high school and public buildings. Pop . (1910) 5,791; (1920) 8,302.

Huronian Rocks

the name given by Sir William Logan to a series of strata lying in the vicinity of Lake Huron. They consist chiefly of quartzite with great masses of greenish chloritic schist, sometimes containing pebbles derived from the Laurentian rocks. The Huronian rocks are about 18,000 feet thick.

Hurt

or HEURT, in heraldry, an azure or blue rondle; supposed by some to represent a hurt or wound, by others the hurtle-berry, whence the name is derived.

Huso

Acipenser huso, the Beluga or isinglass sturgeon. It is sometimes 12 or 15 feet long, and weighs 1,200 pounds.

One mentioned by Cuvier reached 3,000 pounds. It inhabits the great rivers falling into the Black and Caspian seas.

The best isinglass is made from its airbladder.

Hussite

a follower of John Huss.

Hven

or HWEN, a small island of Sweden, on the S. W. coast in the Sound, 15 miles N. E. of Copenhagen. It was the residence of Tycho Brahe, and the place where he built an observatory, which has since fallen into decay.

Hya-Hya

(hi"ä-hi"ä), a milky plant of South America.