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 556 HEADLEY HEABNE ceding, born near Rochester in 1793. "While an officer in the engineers he received from a raining company an invitation to explore the gold and silver mines of South America, be- tween Buenos Ayres and the Andes. He ar- rived in Buenos Ayres in 1825, and in a short time had completed the work, having crossed the pampas four times and the Andes twice, and ridden more than 6,000 miles, most of the time alone. His " Rough Notes of a Journey across the Pampas " (1826) gives a graphic de- scription of his expedition. In November, 1835, he was appointed lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, and held office during the insurrection of 1837; after which ho returned home and published a narrative in which he justified the severe measures he had taken against the in- surgents. For his services in suppressing the rebellion he was created a baronet in 1838, and received the thanks of the legislatures of Up- per Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. In 1867 he was made a privy councillor. His remaining works are : " Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau " (1833) ; " Life of Bruce " (1844); "The Emigrant" (1847); "Stokers and Pokers" and " The Defenceless State of Great Britain " (1850) ; " A Fagot of French Sticks" (1851); "A Fortnight in Ireland" (1852); "Descriptive Essays" (1856); "The Horse and his Rider " (I860) ; and " The Royal Engineer" (1870). HEADLEY, Joel Tyler, an American author, born in Walton, Delaware co., N. Y M Dec. 30, 1814. He graduated at Union college in 1839, studied at Auburn theological seminary, and was pastor for two years at Stockbridge, Mass. Obliged by the failure of his health to abandon his profession, he travelled in Europe in 1842- '3, and after his return published two volumes entitled "Letters from Italy" and "The Alps and the Rhine " (New York, 1845), which were received with favor. In 1846 he published "Napoleon and his Marshals" (2 vols. 12mo) and "Sacred Mountains," and in 1847 "Wash- ington and his Generals" (2 vols.). Among his later publications are lives of Oliver Crom- well, Winfield Scott, Andrew Jackson, and Washington; " Adirondacks, or Life in the Woods" (1849) ; "The Imperial Guard of Na- poleon from Marengo to Waterloo " (1852), founded on a popular French history by E. M. tie Saint-Hilaire ; a "History of the Second War between England and the United States" (2 vols., 1853); "Sacred Scenes and Charac- ters;" "Life of General Havelock" (1859); " The Great Rebellion, a History of the Civil War in the United States " (2 vols., 1863-'6) ; "Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution" (1864); and "Sacred Heroes and Martyrs" (1870). Mr. Headley resides near Newburgh, on the Hudson river. In 1856-'7 he was sec- retary of state of New York. HEALY, George Peter Alexander, an American painter, born in Boston, July 15, 1813. He went to Paris in 1836, where he remained several years, alternating his residence there with oc- casional visits to the United States. He is known for his portraits of Louis Philippe, Marshal Soult, Gen. Cass, Calhoun, Webster, Pierce, Gen. Sherman, O. A. Brownson, W. H. Prescott, H. W. Longfellow, and other promi- nent persons. His large historical picture of "Webster's Reply to Hayne," which contains 130 portraits, was completed in 1861, and now hangs in Faneuil hall, Boston. At the great Paris exhibition in 1855 he exhibited a series of 13 portraits and a large picture represent- ing Franklin urging the claims of the American colonies before Louis XVL, for which he re- ceived a medal of the second class. He resided in Chicago from 1855 to 1867, when he went to Europe, and now (1874) lives in Rome. His daughter MARY is the author of "Lakeville" (1 871), and other successful novels. HEARD, a W. county of Georgia, bordering on Alabama, and intersected by the Chatta- hoochee river; area, 286 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 7,866, of whom 2,648 were colored. The sur- face is hilly and well wooded with oak, hick- ory, and pine. Gold, lead, and iron have been found, and the soil is generally rich. The chief productions in 1870 were 22,771 bushels of wheat, 151,435 of Indian corn, 13,406 of sweet potatoes, and 3,508 bales of cotton. There were 637 horses, 744 mules and asses, 1,231 milch cows, 2,282 other cattle, 3,012 sheep, and 6,425 swine. Capital, Franklin. HEARING. See ACOUSTICS, and EAR. HEARNE, Samuel, an English explorer, born in London in 1745, died in 1792. In early life he served as a midshipman under Hood, but upon the conclusion of the seven years' war he entered the employment of the Hudson Bay company, and made several journeys into the northern regions of British America in quest of a northwest passage and of mines of the precious metals. In 1770-'71 he descend- ed the Coppermine river about 30 m. to the Arctic ocean. He was promoted for these services, and in 1787 returned finally to Eng- land. In 1795 appeared his "Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean ; undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Dis- covery of Copper Mines, a Northwest Passage, &c., in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772" (4to, London). HEARNE, Thomas, an English antiquary and author, born at White Waltham, Berkshire, in 1678, died June 10, 1735. He graduated at Oxford in 1699, and became janitor of the Bodleian library in 1701, and in 1712 second librarian. Three years later he was appoint- ed architypographus of the university and es- quire beadle of civil law ; but being a strong Jacobite, he was soon compelled to resign his offices. His plodding industry and irrita- ble temper brought upon him the ridicule of many satirists, and Pope described him in the "Dunciad" under the name of "W T ormius." Among Hearne's most valuable publications, which number more than 40, and the greater