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LEFT HURON, LAKE raising region and is the division head- quarters 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. HURON, LAKE, one of the five great lakes of North America, belonging to the basin of St. Lawrence, second in size only to Lake Superior, and intermediate in position between that lake and Michi- gan, on the N. W. and W., and Lakes Erie and Ontario, on the S. and S. E. It is of a somewhat triangular shape, surrounded W. and S. W. by the State of Michigan, and all the other sides by the Province of Ontario, and divided into two unequal parts by a long peninsula and the IIanitouline chain of islands, the parts to the N. and E. of which are called North Channel and Georgian Bay, The total length of Lake Huron, N. to S., is estimated at 280 miles, and its greatest breadth about 190 miles; area, estimated, 25,000 square miles. Elevation above the surface of the ocean, 596 feet. Greatest depth toward its W. shore at least 1,000 feet, and its mean depth is estimated at 900 feet, or about 300 feet below the level of the Atlantic. In various parts it abounds with islands, their total number being said to exceed 32,000, the largest, Manitoulin, "Evil Spirit" Island, nearly 90 miles long, and in one part almost 30 miles wide. Lake Huron receives the superabundant water of Lake Superior by the river St. Mary, at its N. W. angle, and those of Michigan at Michilimackinac; and discharges its own toward Lake Erie by the St. Clair at its S. extremity. Lakes Nipissing and Simcoe communicate with it by the French and Severn rivers. HUP.ONLAN ROCKS, the name given by Sir William Logan to a series of strata lying in the vicinity of Lake Huron. They consist chiefly of quartz- ite with great masses of greenish chloritic schist, sometimes containing pebbles derived from the Laurentian rocks. The Huronian rocks are about 18,000 feet thick. HURONS, a once powerful tribe of American Indians, belonging to the Huron-Iroquois family. In the early part of the 17th century the Hurons numbered about 30,000 persons, living in 25 villages within a small territory near Georgian Bay. By the end of the cen- tury the tribe had been nearly destroyed by the Iroquois, famine, and disease; and in 1693 the few survivors were re- moved by the French to Jeune Lorette, 88 HUSS near Quebec. Here 200 or 300 descend- ants still live. HURST, FANNIE, an American writer; born in St. Louis, in 1889. She graduated from Washington University in 1909 and carried on post-graduate studies at Columbia. She made a special study of the stage and shop girl and other women workers, and her stories of life in these circles won her quick and wide reputation. Her published writ- ings include: "Just Around the Corner" (1914); "Gaslight Sonatas" (1910). She also wrote several plays, including "The Land of the Free" (1917); "The Good Provider" (1917). She contributed much to magazines. HURST, JOHN PLETCHER, an American Methodist clergyman; born near Salem, Md., Aug. 17, 1834. He studied theology in Halle and Heidelberg, Germany, and became bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880, and chancellor of the American University in 1891. He wrote: "Literature of The- ology"; "History of Rationalism"; "Mar- tyrs to the Tract Cause"; "Life and Literature in the Fatherland"; "Outline of Church History"; "Bibliotheca Theo- logica"; "Short History of the Christian Church"; "Indika"; "History of the Christian Church" (1897) ; etc. He died in Washington, May 4, 1903. 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 de- rived. HUSBANDRY, PATRONS OF, a com- bination, society, or association of farm- ers for the promotion of the interests of agriculture, by abolishing the restraints and burdens imposed on it by railway and other companies, and by getting rid of the systems of middlemen or agents between the producer and consumer. It was founded just after the Civil War, reputedly by 0. H. Kelley, of Boston, Mass., and was especially designed to redress the grievances of the farmers in the West. The popular name of its members is Grangers. 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 air- bladder. HUSS, JOHN (hos), a famous Bo- hemian protestant in religion; born of humble parents in Husinetz, near Prach-