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1em  HAMELN, the cliief town of a circle in the province of Hanover, Prussia, is situated at the confluence of the Weser and Hamel, and at the junction of four railways, 25 miles S.W. of Hanover. It is surrounded by old walls, and possesses a number of old-fashioned houses with quaint richly-adorned gables. The only public buildings of interest are the minster church, restored in 1872, and the town- house. Hameln is the seat of several courts and public offices, and possesses a gymnasium, a higher city school, a higher female school, a trade school, a poorhouse, two hospitals, and a district prison. The principal industries are the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods and machines, distilling, agriculture, and salmon fishing. By the steamboats on the Weser there is communication with Karlshafen and Minden. In order to avoid the dangerous part of the river near the town a channel was cut in 1734, the repairing and deepening of which, begun in 1868, was completed in 1873. The Weser at Hameln is crossed by an iron suspension bridge 830 feet in length, supported by a pier erected on an island in the middle of the river. Ths population of Hameln in 1875 was 9519.

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1em  HAMI, the of a  in, otherwise called undefined, undefined, or undefined, situated on the southern slopes of the , and on the northern verge of the  , in 42° 48′ and 93° 28′E. , at a above  of 3150. The is first mentioned in  in the, under the  I-wu-lu, and said to be situated 1000  north of the  , and to be the key to the. This evidently referred to its advantageous position, lying as it did in a tract, at the point of convergence of two main  running north and south of the  and connecting  with the. It was taken by the in  from the  (the ancient inhabitants of ), and made a. It next fell into the hands of the or Eastern, who made it one of their chief s and held it for several centuries, and whose descendants are said to live there now. From the to the  I-wu-lu is said to have borne the  of Igu or I-chu, under the former of which s it is spoken of by the  , who passed through it in the. The Hami is first met in the  Yüan-shi or “History of the Mongol Dynasty,” but the  more generally used there is Homi-li or Komi-li. Marco Polo, describing it apparently from, calls it Camul, and speaks of it as a place inhabited by a  people of  and wanton habits. It was visited in by, who  a number of both  there, and by the  of  , who found a magnificent  and a  of , in juxtaposition with a fine. Hadji Mahomet (’s friend) speaks of Kamul as being in his time (circa) the first  met with in travelling from. When travelled through the country at the, the power of the   of  extended over nearly the whole country at the base of the  to the  frontier, including Kamil. It fell under the sway of the in, was lost to them in  during the , and the  through it was consequently closed, but was regained in. Owing to its commanding position on the principal to the, and its exceptional , it has very frequently changed s in the s between  and. As regards the latter quality, it is even now said to yield, s, , and of notable excellence, while, with respect to the former, Baron F. Von Richthofen (probably the highest authority) states that the  from  past Hami to , is by far the best and indeed the only natural line for a  from  to. The n Sosnofski, our latest authority respecting Hami, entered it in the  of  after eight s’ journey across the   lying to the south. He speaks of it as an important, whither from  and  goods are brought to be exchanged for the products of. The  consists of  from  (or ),, and , and of descendants of the.  HAMILCAR BARCA, the most illustrious of all the Carthaginian generals and statesmen, next to his son, the great Hannibal. The surname Barca is the same as the Hebrew Barak, and signifies &quot;lightning.&quot; It was in the eighteenth year of the First Punic War,, that Hamilcar first greatly distinguished himself. He had been known before as a young officer of promise who had made raids on the southern coasts of Italy in the neighbourhood of Locri and Cumse. Suddenly he appeared with a squadron off the north-west of Sicily, and seized a strong position on Mount Ercte, now known as Mount Pellegrino, near Palermo. He had but a small force of mercenaries, which his military genius soon made into a well-disciplined body of troops. For three years he maintained himself on Mount Ercte, during which time the Romans were in 