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HENGIST

Volume 11 · 81 words · 1860 Edition

the brother of Horsa, was the first Saxon chief who established himself in England. He reduced the south-eastern corner of the kingdom, and ruled over Kent under the title of king. He fixed his residence at Canterbury, where he died in A.D. 488. (See England.)

HENG-KIANG or SIANG, a river of China, rising in the mountains, which separate the province of Honan from that of Kwang-tung; and falling into the lake of Tung-ting, after a northward course of about 300 miles.