HEL 
may conduct a fhip of any burden, with fafety, sions this 
feats at a water with the tide, and at low water with a 
The Indians have a tradition, that, in fome re- 
ep from rock to rock, 
ea on foot at Hell-gate. 
» Palley of, a dangerous defile, or pafs, from the 
Brig, through the Black foreft into Swabia, E. ef Fri- 
"Y ELL Skerries, a clufter of fmall iflands of Scotland, near 
the weltern coaft ; 10 miles W.of Rum ifland. N. lat. §7 
WwW. jong = 
Hett-ceed, in Rural Economy, a common name often em- 
aps ed pravincally” to fignify bindweed. 
HELLANA, in —_— Geography, a town of Italy, in 
re 2 =~ of Pi tori 
ey TE ee 
scent rea ae of ace 3 but more ieceaal for that 
art of Theffaly which was inhabited by the Hellenes, the 
fon s of Deucalion, According to Ariftotle, in his Treatife 
of Meteors (1. i. c. 14.) the country, denominated Hellas, 
was, in ancient times, that pig: sii rehended the environs 
of Dodona and the river. Achelo 
ELLAS, a town 0 effaly, “seveeding to Strabo ; who 
fays, that the inhabitants of Melitza fuppofed it to be at the 
diltance of ten ftadia from their city. Dicearchus fays, that 
atown of this name was built by Hellen, father of Eolus, 
and that it was fituated in Theflaly, between Pharfalia and 
Melitza. Itis probable, that the name of as commenced 
when the Pelafgi united together and formed a clafs of people 
under the denomination of Hellenes. : Accordingly the cen- 
tral part of Theflaly was called Hellas, or the country of the 
Hellenes. 
HELLCAR oly GH, or at Water-level, in Geography, 
is one of the mo ubterraneous paflages in 
Derbyfhire, or sevihteg in the kingdom, for difcharging the 
waters of mines. It s near to the Derwent river, at a 
place called Hellcar, almott eppobie to Darley church, and 
proceeds about a mile in limeftone-fhale and fhale-grit, 
when it crofles (under Stanton ) a ridge of the firft 
limeftone, for about 2 $s, and then proceeds about 
1j mile et 
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to 
gines on a curious conftruction, are worked by 
of the Lathkil tris fall 144 feet into this fough. (See t 
len ae Magazine, vol. xxxvil, p. 5, and Mr. Fare 
Re iti ‘ 
Phis fough 
Stanton Moor hee any air-fhafts my 2 us: 
fter z ogee of fire, damp had: happened, 
killed the workmen. A fhaft, funk on the N.W. corner et 
‘the moor, is rasa 360 feet deep; the fough being about half 
that depth re it croffes under Ecelefter Brook. 
u 
expence of er mie this fough is faid to ise exceeded , 
be se! exclufive _ a 8 branch from it into B. Thorn: 
s mines, in Stan’ | 
HELLEBERG, a a eee of Bincseks i in the province of 
. Smaland ; 23 miles N.W. of Calmar. 
ee a in Botany. See _See Haniznonvs.. 
ELL 
EBORE, Ba : 
- Hetresore, with a shy Sane or slob ranuncules. 
See Trortivs. : 
_ Metresore, Black, See esrsurbte 
ada in one < two laft mines, pose an en- | 
letting a part 
: 
medicines, this deg tes of anti 
; pone | ‘leat moss 
inating i see 
moter. 
oy 
HEL 
Herresore, Fi ennel-leaved black. = HELLesonvs. 
HELLEBORE T 
Pars _EAAEBOROY, or Eleborut, in the Afuteria 
—s- ancients a 
Se 
d : 
re two kinds of hellebore, the black and the white, 
ed or thei ef relpetive botanical characters, fee Hgttesoxus 
ERAT 
he black Aelictions called alfo «* Melampodium,’’. and, 
becaufe in mild weather it flowers in January, Chriitmas 
flower, is a native of Auftria and Italy, and was unknowa 
in this country till it was cultivated by Mr. John Gerard in 
1596. ‘The root, which is t 
and according to Grew, (Anatomy of Plants,) benumbs the 
tongue, when chewed and retained for fome time upon it, 
and affeéts it with a kind of paralytic ftupor, like the fenfa- 
tion produced by eating or {upping any thing too hot. It 
as alfo a naufeous acrid {mell; but on being long kept, its 
entible qualities and medicinal ‘aGtivity are much diminifhed. 
Bergius diftinguifhes its virtues eccerng to its different 
{lates of dryneis, thus: ‘¢ virtus ; rec. venenata, aciens, 
veficans ; reeenter ficcata ; emees ica, purgans, emmenagoga, 
dutiphihieiars, fternutatoria ; ; diu confervate; vix purgans, 
alterans, diuretica.’” Many proofs occur of the poifonous 
effets of this root, and therefore it fhould be ufed with 
caution. Among the ancients it was thought, principally 
from its purgative quality, to poffefs great efficacy in ma- 
niacal diforders, and particularly with a view to the e 
tion of the atra bilis, from which they fuppofed thefe ‘ae 
difeafes to proceed. Accordingly they peak of it in t 
of high commendation, and in theit Sale a pics pres _ 
its wonderfi cacy; @ g. ‘caput helleboro dignum;’ 
Horace fays, “« : Mifers need a doutle nara hellebore. _ 
«« Danda eft hellebori multo pars maxima avaris ; 
Nefcio an 1 Anticyram ratio illis deftinet omnem. 
Hor, Sermion. 1. ii. fat. 3. v. 82. 
ae 
” 
The ifland of Anticyra, =, ov pita mount Lend 
was famous fo 
ther our Sidiebore” be the fame fpeci 
plant was found in great a. which the former fuppofes 
to be the hellebore of Hippocrates. i 
the {pecies figured hy W nae, by having a large brane: — 
ftem, and alfo by its effeéts, for he aoe that a feruple o 
the éxtra&t brought on violent fpafms and 
known to vary as much ae a removal from 
may be procured with greater seems and 
abandoned in 
urinary 
ruetons of the re- 
