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 722 HIGGINSON HIGHLANDS over a congregation at Guilford, Conn. In 1660 he was ordained pastor of the first church in Salem, of which his father had been teacher, and where he remained until the close of his life, at which time he had been 72 years in the ministry. He was a zealous opponent of the Quakers, although he subsequently regretted the warmth of his zeal ; but he took no part in the proceedings respecting the witchcraft delusion in 1692. He is the author of a num- ber of occasional sermons and miscellanies, in- cluding the " Attestation " to Cotton Mather's Magnalia, prefixed to that work (1697), which has been highly praised for its eloquence. III. Thomas Wentworth, an American author, a lineal descendant of Francis Higginson, born at Cam- bridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1823. He graduated at Harvard college in 1841, and at the theolo- gical school of Cambridge in 1847, and was settled over the "First Religious Society" at Newburyport. In 1850 he was the freesoil candidate for congress, and was defeated. His anti-slavery principles being distasteful to a portion of his congregation, he resigned his pastorate in 1850, and two years later be- came minister of a "Free Church" at Worces- ter. In 1853 he headed an attack on the Bos- ton court house for the purpose of rescuing Anthony Burns, a fugitive slave then in custody of the United States marshal. In this affair he was wounded in the face by a sabre cut ; and one of the marshal's men having been killed, Higginson was indicted for murder, but the prosecution failed from a flaw in the in- dictment. In 1856 he went to Kansas, where he took part in the military struggle of the free-state settlers against the pro-slavery in- vaders from Missouri. He retired from the ministry in 1858, to devote himself to literature. Soon after the outbreak of the civil war he recruited several companies of volunteers for a Massachusetts regiment, and was commis- sioned as captain. In 1862 he was appointed colonel of the first regiment of South Carolina volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the national service. He served with them for two years, chiefly in South Carolina and Florida, making various expeditions into the interior, in one of which he captured Jack- sonville, Florida. He was wounded in Au- gust, 1863, and in 1864 had to retire from the service in consequence. He took up his resi- dence at Newport, R. I., and has since been occupied with public lecturing and literary pur- suits. His first publication was a compilation, made in conjunction with Samuel Longfellow, of poetry for the seaside, entitled " Thalatta " (1853). He has since published the following books, most of the contents of which appeared first in the " Atlantic Monthly " : " Outdoor Papers" (1863); " Harvard Memorial Biogra- phies" (1866); "Malbone, an Oldport Ro- mance" (1869); "Army Life in a Black Regi- ment " (1870) ; " Atlantic Essays " (1871) ; and " Oldport Days " (1873). In 1865 he published a new translation of Epictetus. IIIGIIGATE, a village of Middlesex, England, adjoining Hampstead, 5 m. N. W. of St. Paul's, London; pop. in 1871, 5,339. It is renowned for its pleasant and salubrious situation on a hill, for its fine villas, and particularly for its cemetery, containing the tombs of Lord Lynd- hurst and other eminent persons. Coleridge passed here the last 18 years of his life, and the place has always been a favorite resort of literary people and of wealthy London mer- chants. It has a number of beautifully situated female seminaries and other schools, and a fine parish church. Lady Burdett-Coutts has a magnificent mansion here. HIGHLAND. I. A W. county of Virginia, bordering on West Virginia, bounded N. W. by the principal ridge of the Alleghany moun- tains, and S. E. by the Shenandoah range; area, 425 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,151, of whom 348 were colored. The S. branch of the Po- tomac and some of the head streams of James river rise within its limits. The surface is diversified, but consists chiefly of table land, with a rich soil. It is well timbered, and af- fords excellent pasturage. Iron ore is found in some parts. The chief productions in 1870 were 25,133 bushels of wheat, 6,605 of rye, 26,075 of Indian corn, 11,755 of oats, 4,650 of buckwheat, 5,743 of potatoes, 17,913 Ibs. of wool, 71,557 of butter, and 5,897 tons of hay. There were 1,903 horses, 2,112 milch cows, 6,942 other cattle, 7,950 sheep, and 2,782 swine. Capital, Monterey. II. A S. W. county of Ohio, drained by Paint, Brush, and White Oak creeks; area, 555 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 29,- 133. Its surface is elevated and uneven, and its soil fertile. The Marietta and Cincinnati railroad and Hillsborough branch traverse it. The chief productions in 1870 were 415,370 bushels of wheat, 1,110,437 of Indian corn, 153,324 of oats, 50,278 of potatoes, 81, 832 Ibs. of wool, 517,622 of butter, and 16,970 tons of hay. There were 9,227 horses, 6,743 milch cows, 12,783 other cattle, 25,866 sheep, and 40,834 swine ; 16 manufactories of carriages, 2 of clothing, 1 of iron castings, 1 of machinery, 2 of tombstones, 10 of saddlery and harness, 6 of tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware, 4 of woollen goods, 12 flour mills, 3 tanneries, 8 currying establishments, 2 distilleries, 1 planing mill, and 9 saw mills. Capital, Hillsborough. HIGHLANDS, a name applied to the N. and N. W. districts of Scotland, in contradistinction to the S. and S. E. parts, which are called the lowlands. Their exact boundaries are unset- tled. The Grampian hills are sometimes taken as the dividing line between the two great natural divisions ; but, regarded as the country of the highland clans, the highlands include all the Scottish territory W. and N. W. of an imaginary line drawn from the mouth of the Nairn in the Moray frith nearly S. E. to a point on the N. Esk, near Ion. 3 W., on the S. slope of the Grampians, and thence S. W. to Culross on the estuary of the Clyde. They thus comprehend more than half of Scot-