HE & 
3. A. nate} Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 227.ué¢ Leaves 
: Bred , do ec sana af of North America. —This 
is all meat we have 
» 4. H. quadridentatum. “Billardiere A&. Sen: wr Nat. 
dle "128 Michaux Boreal-Amer. v. 233 
(Rudbeckia alata; ‘Jac eq. Ic. Rar. t. 593. ov-ientss 
entire, fmooth, broad at the bafe. Flonets of he tif four- 
clef peal —— and Louifiana.’ We — 4 
from ar N 1797s. . root is annual. Stem 
feet hig: +8 much breeciesl, ftrong! gly winged from the rho 
rent. i. which are lance inte, beGad at the bafe, fmooth, 
or very nearly fo ; the upper ones quite entire, the lower 
fone what icited; or even pinnatifid. #loqwers much {malier 
than the other fpecies, being fearcely an inch broad, orange- 
ured, with broad-we ge-fhaped three-lobed flarets:s in the 
$y oad thofe of the difk four-cleft only ; not five-cleft, 
as is almoft univ erfally the cafe in this natural order. 
duoef flalks are long, flender, ie naked, terminal, and 
olit 
aif LENS, 
eo 
oO 
3 we saouth of the pe. isa clufter of rocks call ae 
3 in St. Helens are neatly built wit 
their inte! at the time of a 
ancient church was partly taken down about the pee 
‘of the lait Bassi: the church-yard having been en d 
on by the fea: the tower was fuffered to‘remain as a a inate 
for feamen. ¢ new church is a {mall edifice, ftanding 
in a re elevated fituation to the north-weft - ag 
parifh, oppofite St. Helens’ road, wa: 
Chinize so oes i 
cp 
M; 
_ fone, aid thatched : 
; — to a aria was 100, the inhabitants 550, 
bi 
rdinate to an abbey in Normandy. 
of fir Nath Grofe, one of the judges 
‘Bench, : a 
tenfive view 
e Court of King’ 8 
— manfion, denominated Priory, commands ex- 
- This 
ed to have pent to the priory. The 
P 
Whole of this demefne is formed of a narrow ‘tip of ground, 
Aten about a mile alon g the fhore. 
re Ra — from Priory is Fairy-Hill, 
ry Oglander ; 
; is are pleafantly difpofed. On the | 
cm aa eae isa ines Beauties of England 
a abe Ifle of wae 
the houfe is a neat 
. = wife of ‘He@tor and flave of Pyrrhus, ot r 
mone bad Heth becaufe his preditions — bees mheaeces 20] 
a 
aoe 
aes! 
eae: 
SB 
Wel 
5 
e 
er <p; 
sation 
ing -Helenus is fait to a shat 
| tion from a Safioerien, his. 
ao 
rieftefs. of 
Apollo. 
taken prifoner, in his retirement to mount Ida, by 
ade fubo 
The feite of Ting ancient building is now occupied by the feat . 
he art of divina- nei 
art, he was much refpedted by the Trojans ; ; occultat 
Egg. eee ee eee . } 
Ulyfles, he was mu ; t 
of the Trojans, a was at length prevailed upon to inform 
the: enemies of his eountry that Troy could not be taken whilft 
gerous camp whic pei fatal to all thofe who fet fail. 
we have already faid, he gained the favour of 
o .Thus 
P ae te and his favour was introdugtory to the other events 
Set occurred. It is faid that Helenus received A&neas when 
on his voyage towards Italy, and prediéted to him fome of 
the calamities that befel his fleet 
HELEPOLIS, in 4a sity a malitery machine for bat- 
tering down the walls of a place befieged 
The word i k 2 saves compounded of the words 
Aw, e take, a bss city. 
earn as -deferbed by Diodorus Siculus, &c. 
appears to have been no more than the aries or battering- 
ram, with a roof or covering over it, to prevent its being 
fet on fire, as alfo to f{ereen the men who worked it. Some 
ad feveral iron points or heads, where- 
with the execution was a formed much like the thunder- 
inten 
Others will have helepolis a oe name, comprehend- 
ing all the machines ufed by the aeienis in befieging towns; 
as, among us, the name artille ides all the forts of 
firearms. But this opinion is oubais founded on the 
origin of the name, and does by no means fuit with thofe 
minute defcriptions given of the helepolis it in the ancient 
_writers. 
The invention of the helepolis, and divers other military 
pees is afcribed to Peacatins ; which, with the great 
ber of cities he took thereby, gave him the denomination 
of 5 Ftc or city-t taker. 
ELESAY, in 5 Seen): one of the {maller Scots He- 
brides... N. lat. 
HEL 
lon 
FING, in our O]d Wri, a brafs coin among the 
Saxons, equivalent to our 
HELGA, in Geography, a uke of Sweden, in the pro- 
vince of Smaland; five miles S. of Wetter lake. . 
HELGOM, a town of Sweden, i in Angermannland ; Ap 
miles N.W. of Hernofand. 
HELIACA, formed: from xAse, Sua in Antiquity, oe 
fices and other folemuities performed in honour of the fun. 
dees sie t so se bis Sua, in 
hid; whet ayeas owing to "she date of the ve Com 
the ftar ; ‘or that of the ftar un, When applied to 
the fetting of a ftar, it denotes enteri or immerging into 
the fan’s ae and fo becoming inconfpicuous by the fuperior 
light of 
at luminary. 
A far Lies heliacaily, when after it-has been in conjunction 
with the fun, and « on that Bese invifible, it gets at fucha 
diftance from him, as to be n in the morning before the 
» The fame is faidto fet, heliacally, when. it approaches fo 
the fun as to be hid thereia. So that, t, in ftriGtnefs, 
x Reiocsl: rifing and fetting are only an lomo and 
~ fun’s rifling. 
The "The behave! rifing of the moon bagpeoe wf when fhe ariven 
