

BELL. 







Th street* are regular, and iutenect each other at rittht angles. The 

 town is defended by Fort Ueorge and several batteries. During the 

 yean 1845-8-7 a spacious iron market-house was constructed : a 

 powder magazine was built, with a house for the officer in charge ; 

 St. John's church was nearly rebuilt ; the Government House wait 

 repaired ; the public hospital was enlarged, and a tank constructed ; 

 a lighthouse was built on Manger Key ; and a ferry-house was built 

 eight miles up the river. During 1848 the new works in progress 

 included an iron lighthouse at Half Moon Key; a police station-house;' 

 a new church, to be called St. Mary's ; and a new iron church sent 

 out from England. There are two parishes, each of which has a 

 church ; the Wesleyans and Baptists have chapels. There are five 

 judicial courts in Belize : the Court of Ordinary, and the Supremo, 

 Grand, Summary, and Police courts. A local police, with a fire 

 establishment, was formed in 1846. There is a common jail, which 

 in now too small for its purpose. There is a Grammar school, formed 

 in 1846 by a re-arrangement of a previous Free school ; in 1847 it 

 I i.ii 1 175 pupils; it is under a board of inspection. The Wesleyans 

 and Baptists have schools in Belize. The Public Hospital was 

 founded in 1820; and an excellent institution called the Fiuicourt 

 Dispensary was founded in 1847. A Seaman's Hospital has been 

 Imiit. Belize is the seat of the Honduras legislature, which consists 

 of a superintendent, and an electoral body called the Public Meeting. 

 Honduras is not exactly a colony, but a settlement under the control 

 of the governor of Jamaica. The clergy of Belize are under the bishop 

 of Jamaica, 



Belize is the centre of trade in British Honduras. The imports in 

 1848 amounted in value to lG6,61i/., and the exports to 353,7822. 

 The imports consist chiefly of manufactured goods from Great 

 Britain. The exports consist chiefly of mahogany, logwood, rose- 

 wood, hides, tortoise-shell, fustic, cochineal, indigo, sorsaparilla, and 

 cocoa-nuts. Among the items for 1848 were 7,947,983 cubic feet of 

 mahogany, 4332 tons of logwood, 1775 tons of hides, 23,520 Ibs. of 

 sarsaparilla, and 319,943 cocoa-nuts. The nhips which entered in 

 1848 were 100 (27,457 tons) ; those which cleared out were 115 

 (28,947 tons). Most of the mahogany trade of Honduras is centred 

 in five or six extensive establishments at Belize, by whom all the 

 mahogany cutters are employed. [HONDURAS, BRITISH.] 



,M Krporli. 1847-8-9.) 



Hi: 1. 1, (or INCHCAPE) HOCK, on the cast coast of Scotland, at the 

 opening of the bay formed by the Red Head in Forfarshire ant) Fife- 

 ness, and nearly opposite the entrance of the river Tay, in 56 25' N. 

 lat, 2 23' W. long. From Fifeness it is distant 114 geographical 

 unle-4, bearing N.E. I-;. 



A lighthouse was erected and a light first exhibited in 1811. The 

 light is 108 feet above the medium level of the sea. A bright light 

 and a red light are exhibited, each attaining its greatest strength 

 every four minutes. Two bells in foggy weather are tolled by machi- 

 nery night and day, at intervals of half a minute. Prior to the erec- 

 tion of the lighthouse many wrecks took place on this rock, which 

 was the more dangerous from having deep water all round it. The 

 erection of this lighthouse is a fine example of engineering skill. 



(Htevenson's Account of Ike Bell Ruck Liyhthoiur, 4 to., 1824 ; 

 Dnwiou's \orlh Sea Pilot.) 

 HKI.I.AC. [VIK.XM:, HAUTE.] 

 HKLLECAUin;. [Am; PTRfexfcra ORIENTALS*,] 

 KKI.I.KII.K KN-MKH (the Roman r,,,.li/it. in Breton Guedtl), an 



nthowostcoaitof Franco.alittl. N.\V. oft hi: mouth oftli. 

 is included in the >1> |. ,. !M. ,it of Morliihan. The island is of an oblong 

 form : iUgrcaicut l.-n/th IMMI n.: til-went to south-east is about 12 mil. -. 

 iU greatest breadth about 6, and it is distant about 6 miles from the 

 peninsula of Quibonm. It is surrounded by rocks and small inlets. 

 The climate is very mild and healthful, and the soil fertile. The island 

 abounds in excellent pasturage, and a great number of hones are 

 reared. Belle-lie forms a canton which in divided into four commune * 

 Palais, Bangor, Locmaria, and Uauzon so called from the chief town 

 or village* on the island. I'alaii stands on the north-cast coast ; it lias 

 a small harbour in which there is a good anchorage. There is a light- 

 house here with a fixed light of the first class. The town is in 47* 21' 

 N. Ut, 3* 9' W. long. : population of the commune 4644. Palais is 

 well built, ami is defended by a citadel. Bangor stands nearly in the 

 centre of the island, and has a population of 1742; near it stands a 

 lighthouse, lately erected, which is 275 feet high, and has a revolving 

 light of the first class eclipsed every alternate minute. IU position i 

 47' 19' N. Int., 8* 14' W. long, laanaria is at the southern extremity 

 of the island, and has ft population of 1599. Sauzon is built at the north- 

 western point of the island ; it has a small shallow harbour, outside of 

 which there is a good roadstead: population, 1454. The inhabitant* 

 of Belle-lie engage in the pilchard fishery from June to October. The 

 island contains several druidical monuments. The soil, which rest* on 

 crystallised rocks interspersed with mica schist and steatite is good, 

 yielding excellent pasture and wheat. The surface is about 160 feet 

 above the sea, level, and treeless; it is furrowed by a few small 

 valleys hollowed out by brooks of very pure water, which rise from 

 springs near the centre of the island A fine reservoir was constructed 

 by Vauban near Palais, where the French navy take in their supplies 

 of fresh watrr. Salt U made on the island. 



In the 10th century Belle-lie was in possession of one of the Counts 



of Cornouaille*, who presented it to the abbey of Quimpcrlc. The 

 abbot, unable to defend the island in time of war, obtained leave in 

 the 16th century to give it in exchange for other property to Marshal 

 de Retz, who fortified the island and built several houses upon it 

 In 1658 Belle-lie came by purchase into the family of Fouquet, who 

 spent considerable sums on iU improvement. In this family, the head 

 of which took the title of Marquis of Belle-He, the possession of the 

 island remained till 1718, when the regent Orleans united it to the 

 property of the crown in exchange for the county of Gisors an.! 

 manors. The English seized the island in 1761, and restored it in 

 1763. In the expedition to Quiberon in 1795 they failed in an attempt 

 upon the island. 



(Dictionnaire de la Franct, Paris, 1845.) 



BELLEI3LE, a small island lying about 15 miles N. from the most 

 northerly point of the island of Newfoundland, and about the same 

 distance E. from the coast of Labrador. It is placed near the middle 

 of the north-eastern entrance to the Strait of Belleiale, in 51 57' N. 

 lat., and 55* 40' W. long. The island is about 20 miles in circum- 

 ference. Wheat is produced on the island, also potatoes anil 

 vegetables. Belleiele has a small convenient harbour, called Lark 

 Harbour, on the north . capable of receiving only 



vessels ; and at the east point is another small harbour or cove which 

 will admit only fishing shallops. 



BELLEI8LE, STISAIT <>!', a channel which divide- Newfoundland 

 from Labrador on the continent of North America, and forms the 

 northern entrance from the Atlantic to the Utilf of s- 

 The length of the strait, from its commencement at Belleislc 

 to its termination at Grand Point on the Labrador coast, is about 80 

 miles, and its general width about 12 miles. 



This passage is considered unsafe, and is in consequence seldom 

 frequented in the usual course of navigation by vessels entering the 

 St. Lawrence. The Labrador side of the strait is much indented with 

 bays, among which are Temple Bay, Wreck Cove, Green Bay, Bed 

 Bay, and Black Bay. The coast of Newfoundland along the strait is 

 without indentations. 



P.KU.KSM K, or BELLEME. [ORSE.] 



I'.Kl.l.KVILLE. [Sn 



BEU.KVJLLK-sri: SAONK. [RH6HE.] 



I'.IXLEVUE-LES-BAINS. [Boi-Riiox-L.\KCT.] 



BELLEY. [AiN.] 



BELLINGHAM, Northumberland, a market-town and the scat of 

 a Poor-Law Union, in the north-west division of Tindaln ward, N 

 situated in 55 8' N. lat, 2 13' W. long.; 34 mil. \V.N.\V. from 

 Newcastle, and 294 miles N.N.W. from London. The parish (one ot 

 those formed by the division of Simonburn parish in 1X1 1) compre- 

 hends the township of Bcllingham, and the 'quarters' of East 

 < 'liiirlton, Leemailing, the Nook, and Tiinvthuni, 

 with an aggregate nrea of 15,540 acres, about one half of wi- 

 uninclosed moor land : the population of the township of Bcllingham 

 iu 1851 was 770, of the entire parish 1594. The living in 

 the archdeaconry of Northumberland and diocce ,,f llurlnm. I!- 11- 

 inghain Poor-Lam I 'un contains 37 parishes and townships, v> 

 area of 211,719 acres, and a population in 1851 of 6395. 



The town is pleasantly situated on a ! <h<- left bank of 



the North Tyne. The chapel is a small ancient l-mM n- with n finely 



groined stone roof. There are chapels for \\ n Catholics and 



I Presbyterian*. In the township arc two day-schools (one of 

 tin-in with a small endowment), and a library ; mid M-\, r.d day schools 

 are in the other parts of the parish. A few of the inhabitants ore 

 engaged in manufactures. There is a small weekly market on Satur- 

 day ; and there are two yearly fairs, one of which is a cattle fair. A 

 county court i held at licllingham. 



(Hntdiinson'B .\orthumberland; Hittorital and Dtlcriptirt Vim of 

 Xorlh iimbfrlii ml.) 



HKI. UN/UNA. [TuiNo. Canton of.] 



I'.IXLUNO, a delegation or province of Austrian Italy, formerly 

 part Hi nice. The pro\ nd. d \V. by 



the Tyrol, E. l.y Kiiuli, N. by Carinthi tin- prov 



Treviso. In add'ition to the former V.-< ot, 'il l K 



it now includes the territories of Feltrc and < 

 of the province is about 125,000. The country in in. inntaiiious and 



.!< with good pasturage. It also contains numerous cxl. 

 forests, from which great quantities of timber arc cut and I! 

 down the river Piave to Venice. Of these forests one, the forest of 

 Cansejo, known in the time of the Romans a* the Sylvn Consilia, is 

 the largest in Upper Italy. The Piave, which is the chief river of the 

 province, rises in the Alps, and after flowing iu a southerly direction 

 through the province enters Treviso, where it turns to the south-east 

 and falls into the Gulf of Venice a few miles north of the city of 

 Venice. Cattle, the produce of the dairy, copper and zinc, of which 

 there are productive mines, with the forest timber, constitute the 

 chief wealth of the country. The vine and other fruit-trees thrive on 

 the lower hills and in the valley of the Piave. The country abounds 

 with game. The chief town, KeUuno, is built on a hill near the right 

 bank of the Piave, 55 miles N.N.E. from Padua. It is the seat of the 

 bishop of Belluno-Keltre, and the residence "f tlm governor of the 

 delegation : the population of the town and suburbs is about 11,000. 

 The town is well built, has a handsome cathedral built after tn,- 



