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* HTJC. 283 HUDDERSFIELD. Tols., Paris, 1850) ; L'empire chinois (ib., 1855) ; iind Le chiistianisme en Chine, en Tartaric et en- Thibet (4 vols., ib., 1857-58). All of these works have been translated into English. The strange- ness of the things described caused thera to be received with incredulity, but later travelers have established their truth. Father Hue's health was never fully restored, and he died at the age of forty-six. Consult : Henri d'Orl^ans, Le pi-re Hue et ses critiques (Paris, 1893). HTIC'BALD, or HTIBAI/DUS (c.S40-c.930) . A Benedictine monk, author, and musician. He was noted for his piety and learning. He lived most of his life in the Monastery of Saint-Amand, near Tournay. His writings include some lives of the saints, but he is best Icnown by his treatises on nuisic. The authorship of these is disputed, excepting Harmonica Institutio.a criticism of a work by Reginon de Prum. The most celebrated of them is Musica Enchiriadis, now believed to be by an unknow n writer of the end of the tenth cen- tury. It illustrates rules by practical examples, and is a valuable aid to the understanding of cer- tain early s^'stems of notation. Other works at- tributed to him are Alia Musica and Gommemo- ratio Brtvis de Tonis et I'sulmis ilodulandis, HX7CKABACK (probably from LGer. hukke- hak, pickaback, from hukcn, to crouch + bak, back). A coarse kind of linen or cotton cloth, figured somewhat like damask; it is usually em- ployed for toweling. HUCTKLEBERBY (probably a corruption of hiirtlcberry, ichurtleberry, whortleberry, probably from Ao. icj/rtil, OHG. u>urzala, Ger. Wurzel, root + berry; apparently confused with AS. heortberije, heorotbrrye, hartberry, from heort, heorot, stag, hart -|- berge, berry). A term now BCCKLEBEnnT. applied indiscriminately to various small, hardy shrubs of the genus Vaccinum (order Vac- einiaceae). The flowers of these plants have a four nr five toothed calyx, four or five cleft bell- shaped corolla, with the limb bent back, and eight to ten stamens with two-horned anthers. The fruit is a four fo live celled, many-seeded berry. The numerous representatives of the genus, mostly confined to the Northern Hemi- sphere, are common in the north of Great Britain, Vol. X.— 19. Europe, and throughout North America. In nature the huckleberry is represented by numer- ous species, and as each of these show marked variations in size of fruits and productiveness, the wonder is that so attractive a native plant should have existed so long apparently unheeded. The plants range in size from six inches in Vac- cinum Pennsylvanicum, to five to ten feet high in Vaccinum corynibosum, and bear fruits from one- eighth inch up to five-eighths inch in diameter. In color they are equally variable, showing all sliades from waxen black, blue, and white, to red in one species, Vaccinum Vitas-Idaea, which is often called cranberry because of the likeness of its acid fruit to that of the cranberry. While the huckleberry has been successfully transplanted to gardens, grown from seeds and grafted, it has nowhere been cultivated in a commercial way. In certain portions of the United States wild plants are protected and cared for in order that the fruit may be secured for the canneries or markets. The '"blueberry barrens" of Maine, an area of some 150,000 acres in ex- tent, is a notable example of the preservation of a native product from which is derived a large annual income. The annual pack from this region alone is about 30.000 cases of 24 cans each, valued at $57,000. Besides forming a valuable commer- cial product when canned, the huckleberry is ex- tensively gathered and marketed for dessert pur- poses. Although naturally a dry, rather seedy fruit, the larger specimens are juicy, and pos- sess a most agreeable flavor. The huckleberrv is also used for preserves and jellies, as well as for making wine and distilled liquors. In America, however, its chief value is as a dessert fruit, both in a fresh state and when canned. HTJCKNALL TOE.KABD, huk'nal tor^erd. A town in Nottinghamshire, England, five miles north of Nottingham ( Map : England, E 4 ). It has coal-mining industries. Lord Byron is buried in the old parish church. Population, in 1891, 11.000: in 1901, 15,250. HUDDE, hud'dp, A.xdbeas (c.lfiOO-63). A Dutch commander in New Netherland after 1629. As one of the four councilors of Wouter van Twiller, director-general in America for the Dutch West India Company (1633), Hudde obtained a large grant of land upon Long Island, and in 1642 he was surveyor of Manhattan. Four years later, when trouble had arisen between the Dutch and Swedish settlers on the South, or Dela- ware River, he was sent to guard the Dutch West India Company's interests there, and at once entered into strife with the governor of the Swedes, who tried to stir up the Indians against him. But Hudde held his own until 1655. when the Dutch authorities sent ships to help him. and he conquered the Swedish rulers. He continued to enjoy the company's confidence, and was made commander of Forts Altona and New Gottenburg (1657). as well as colonial surveyor and parish clerk. That he was a well-educated man is evidenced by the qu.ality of his literary remains in the Albany archives. HUD'DERSFIEI,D. A manufacturing and market town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the Colne. 16 miles southwest of Leeds. It has excellent facilities for inter- communication by railway and canal with all important commercial centres, and is the chief seat of the English cloth and woolen manufae-