Hal, a town of Belgium, 9 m. SW. from Brussels; noted for its 14th-century church, which contains a black wooden image of the Virgin credited with miraculous powers, and resorted to by pilgrims.
Population (circa 1900) given as 9,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hakodate * Halacha