the descendants of Heber, commonly called Jews. See HEBREW and JEWS.

or Epistle to the Hebrews, a canonical book of the New Testament.

Though St Paul did not prefix his name to this epistle, the concurrent testimony of the best authors ancient and modern afford such evidence of his being the author of it, that the objections to the contrary are of little or no weight.

The Hebrews, to whom this epistle was written, were the believing Jews of Palestine; and its design was to convince them, and by their means all the Jewish converts wheresoever dispersed, of the insufficiency and abolishment of the ceremonial and ritual law.

HERBRIDES, the general name of some islands lying to the north-west of Scotland, of which kingdom they constitute a part. They are situated between the 55th and 59th degrees of latitude, are supposed to be about 300 in number, and to contain 48,000 inhabitants. The names of the largest are LEWIS, SKY, MULL, ILAY, and ARRAN. Of these islands Mr Penant hath given the following history.

"All the accounts left us by the Greek and Roman writers