HEL 
OstusaTa. Shell white, denfely ftriated, and they 
drical ; wherls a little convex ; lip margined. Kem 
Length three inches. 
Purpurea. Shell erate arlene purptifh, teffellated with 
darker purple ; within iridefcent. Gmel. 
Native of New Zealand. 
Hextx, in Geometry, a {pir ral line. coe SPIRAL. 
The word is Greek, oes ta pati) fignifies a wreath, 
or peas: of » fenvir 
In Ar, citedure, _ Acct beth a | dilkeceace between 
the helix and the {pi 
air-cafe, Spd to Davila, is in a helix, or is heli- 
cal, when the ftairs or iteps wind round a cylindrical newel; 
whereas the fpiral winds round a wr and is continually 
rhein nearer and nearer its ax 
ELIX, in Natural Hiffory, is a pee applied by Dr. 
rew, (e Rarities at Grefham College, p. 260, 261.) to 
feveral fpecies of Cornu ammonis, which fee 
XANTHERA, in Botany, is eleed from ig, 
a firew, on ae of its fpiral-fhaped anthers. Loureir. 
pa v. —Clafs and order, Pentandria Mono- 
fAIT Ty invo 
Chit Ch. Cal. Perianth cylindrical, truncated, colour- 
ed, propped Py an ovate, flefhy fcale of the fame colour as 
the c calyx. of one petal, Sector! tube fhort; limb 
in five deeply divided, reflexed, oblong, obtufe fegments; 
nectar aT with five fides, five-clelt at the top, forming an 
es Cats ee Stam. Eaene. five, thread-fhaped, 
" ‘ Loureir.—It creeps over the flems of 
cultivated trees in the gardens of Cochinchina.—Stem pa- 
ie 6: 
Calyx and Berries 
We have feen no (gelibien 
is part of his defeription feems to indicate 
3 an affinity to he 
Nae a place of Pree! vies the wicked are 
to rec re the rew. er this life. 
__ The Jews, wanting a proper name for it, called it Gehenna 
‘or Chimie from a valley near Jerufalem, wherein was a 
Ophet, or place where a fire was perpetually kept. See 
"Diviea 
; vines reduce the torments of hell to two kinds ; pena 
pena finfus 
the 3 : and eB eines of the beatific vifion ; and 
s of 
knefs, with the continual 
oy os OF ae eles satiric l | 
“pot dd sade ligi ons have their notions of a hell. 
_ The Gree notions of the infernal regions altars wi 
from the E antes To this purpofe Diodorus Siculus in- 
: ge us (1.1. c. 36), that the punifhments of the wicked 
Tartarus, ons of the bleffed in the Elyfian mifchief. 
iy ie and fome =. fh notions, are evidently borrowed 
a he te ptians, gaat the con- 
actor of foul bas semteh the Greeks, was formed on the 
HE, 
model of a man, to whom the ancient Egyptians ufed to 
commit the care of Apis’s dead’ body to carry it to another, 
o received it ag a mafk with three heads like thofe of 
It is faid that the whole fable of the infernal 
regions was iutteduced into Greece by Orpheus. See 
ELysium. 
The hell of the poets is terrible ia sine heiege the 
panther of Tityus, Ixion, ‘Thefeus, Tantalus, Prome- 
theus, the Danaids, Lapithe, pricey eS &e. etecoe by 
Ovid in his Metamorphofis. Virgil, after a furvey of hell, 
fEneid, lib. vi. declares, that if he had a hundred mouths 
and tongues, they would not fuffice to recount all the 
plagues of the tortured. 
Accordingly he thus defcribes the manfions of the dead: 
« Deep, deep, a cavern lies, devoid of light, 
All rough with rocks, and horrible to fight : 
The gaping gu!ph inclos’d with fable floods, 
And the brown horrors of furrounding woods. 
From her black jaws fuch baleful vapours rife, 
B'ot the bright day, and blaft the golden fkies ; 
That not a bird can ftretch her pinions there, 
Through the thick poifons and incumber’d air ;, 
O’ertook by death her flagging pinions ceafe, 
And hence Aornus was it called by Greece 
Hither the prieftefs four black heifers led, 
Between their horns the hallow’d wine he fhed; 
From their high front the top-moft hairs fhe drew, 
And in the flames the firit oblations threw, &c.” 
Pitt « Homd, Vi. 332%. 
Again 
oe At hell’s eek mouth a dealead montters waits 
e Furies roar. 
- Fallin the mit a spreading elm difplay’d 
sp 8 aged atm d caft a mighty fhade. 
And dake oe Lern 8 ting eee: ftands. , 
undred hands 
bir with a 
There ftern Ger. Sel raged; and, all around, 
Fierce Howie fcream’d, and direful Gorgons pA sg 4.7 
Ibid. 38 5 pi 
rivers of hell, accordin “ag 2 were Acheron, 
Proferpine, and Cott 
een 
’ Night, pce and Death, Although + titans temples nor 
o the 
fe divinities, nor hymns compofed. 
to their ioaaaes ; sg pre worthip was paid tothem, with 
a view of appealing: their anger, and preventing t their doing, 
‘The New Teftament £6 hell 28 6 lalir'of frend 
and a worm whic Scie &e. (Rev. Si av 
Mr, i 43> &e. Luke, Xvi. 33 &c.) The Caffres 
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