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HALIFAX

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HALLAM

pounds; one weighing 350 pounds is seven or eight feet long ana four feet wide. The smaller ones weighing 10 or 20 pounds are called chicken-halibut. They are the best for eating, and bring the highest price per pound. The halibut has about the same geographical range as the cod, but shows a preference for cold water and goes

HALIBUT

deeper. They are caught at 250 fathoms and deeper. They feed on crabs, mollusks and other fish. Sometimes they pursue fishes to the surface and strike them with their tail before devouring them. See FLATFISH.

Halifax, a town in the north of England, is situated on the River Hebble, 43 miles southwest of York. Its facilities for transporation, both by water and by leading railroad lines, contribute to its commercial importance. It is noted for its manufacture of worsted goods and carpets. Crossley's carpet-works, the largest in the world, employing 5,000 hands, are situated here. Population 112,818.

Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, seat of the government and legislature of the

province and the chief Atlantic seaport of Canada, is situated on the eastern coast of Nova Scotia. Its harbor, called by the Indians Chebucto, meaning the greatest of havens, is one of the finest in the world. It was until lately the principal naval and military station of Great Britain in America (now garrisoned by the Canadian government-troops), and is strongly fortified. It

also has considerable commercial importance, and is the seat of Dalhousie University and a large number of other educational institutions, including a school for the blind and one for the deaf and dumb. It is the eastern terminus of the Intercolonial Railroad of Canada and the Dominion Atlantic Railroad, and has lines of steamers to Liverpool, New York and Boston. Population 40,832.

Hall, Qranville Stanley, educator, psychologist and author, was born in 1846 at Ashfield, Mass. He received the degree of A. B. from Williams College in 1867, A. M in 1870, and was graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1871. In 1878 he received his Ph. D. degree from Harvard, He has spent several years in study at various universities in Germany. He was professor of philosophy at Antioch College (Ohio), 1872-76, lecturer in English at Harvard and in the history of philosophy at Williams, and professor of psychology and pedagogy in Johns Hopkins University, 1881-88. Since 1889 he has been president of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., and professor of psychology. He is well-known as the editor of the American Journal of Psychology and the Pedagogical Seminary and as the author of Adolescence. He has done much to promote research in psychology, and is recognized as one of America's leading educators.

Hall, Robert, a celebrated English preacher and writer, was born at Arnsby, May 2, 1764. Feeble in body but bright in intellect, he learned to read before he could talk. He was educated at a Baptist academy in Bristol and at King's College, Aberdeen, where his eloquent preaching drew great crowds to hear him. In 1790 he went to Cambridge, where he rose to the highest rank of British pulpit-orators. Besides his published sermons, his more important writings are An Apology for the Freedom of the Press and On Terms of Communion. See Life by Gregory and Observations on His Preaching by Foster, in the published edition of his works. He died on Feb. 21, 1831.

Hallam (hal'am), Henry, an English his* torian, was born at Windsor, July 9, 1777. He was educated at Oxford, and read law in Lincoln's Inn, but from the first gave himself entirely to literary pursuits. His first great work, his View of Europe in the Middle Ages, was published in 1818. It at once gave him a foremost place among English historians. In 1827 he published The Constitutional History of England and in 1837-39 his Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Upon these three great works rests his position as an historian. He died in 1859. His son, Arthur Henry Hallam, a young man of great promise, who died at 23, is subject of