HEL 
chant veflels paffing the Sound pay a duty, and therefore 
every nation that trades t to the Baltic has its conful here. 
‘This town has no harbour, but its road is fafe and good ; 
20. a N. of Copenhagen. N. lat. 55° 58. E. long. 
Hitsr, Bartuo.tomew Vanper, in Biography, anex- 
cellent portrait painter, who was born at Haerlem in 1613. 
His pictures have the air of correé pee with 
great richnefs and truth of colouring and firmnefs of execu- 
tion; their ies defect is want of tafte and variety, and 
they apres: ei in their effect although clear in tone. 
is cl ‘euvre is, or was, in the Cheah of Juftice i in 
the Town-houle at enlierneey 
Aue. in the Stadthoufe is pepe 5 Vander Helit. It 
This is sn the firft sito of a Be in i orld, 
ae a 
that the ator has tion to with for. Of ae picture 
I had Rane heard great comme ndations, but it far exceeded 
my expectation.” Vander Helft died in 1670, at the aur 
Ts 
HELSTON, in Geography, is a large and populous bo- 
rough and market- town in the hundred a Kerriar, ‘and 
62, and from its venes sae and 
lofty. pinnacled Sots forins a 
arts o the 
. The manor w 
year 17 98, and was purchafed ce John Sas vA re- 
corder oF the borough. . Leland mentions fome veitiges efa 
ai to be feen here in his time, but no. part of it is now 
ning. 
. Helfion has at different times received no lefs than four- 
pe The firft was iy ¥ king John, who 
o par acliacoen oie saree 
mer charters 
HEL 
is 276 miles diftant from London. The population under.the 
late return was 2248 perfons, sphabising 313 houfes. At St. 
John’ 8 village, adjoining to the town, there was formerly a 
priory of knights of St. ete "oF Jerufalem ; the remains Bt ck 
building were deftroyed fome years palt, and. a Met 
meeting-houfe erected on the fcite. 
out two miles from Heliton is Penrofe, the feat of 
John Rogers; efg. This eftate formerly belonged to the 
Penrofe family, from whom it defcended to the prefent pro- 
prieter,. who has made confiderable additions to the old 
nds. 
calied the Loe-pool, which forms one of the molt extenfive 
lakes in the coun ty» and is conftituted fuch by a fingular 
operation of nature. ‘The continual rolling of the waves 
of the Britifh at forces in a vaft « uantity of fand and 
pebbles, which, by conftantly accumulating, forms a very 
thick and high ban k or dam,.extending acrofs the valley, 
and by clofing the mouth of the channel, occafions the river 
to fpread over a {pace nearly feven miles in circumference. 
The waters See thus obftruéted, at length threaten to 
overflow the mills, and the whole of the re To pre- 
vent which the propeictars, | bse by the mayor of the 
town, petitioned the lor the manor for permiffion to 
pen a paflage through tbe vebbly embankment: and havin 
effected this the frefh-water ruthes into the ocean with amaz- 
Its effect is fingular, a prefents an intereftin 
The combination 0 woods edad 
this lake is peculiarly pi€turefque ce era 
In the parifh of Sithney, about four tails N W. of Hel: 
fton, is a large pile of ftones, the uppermoft of dee = 
long been known | the name of Mén-Amber, 
formerly a logan, or rocking ftone. fh 9 8 Alstiqaiies 
of Cornwall, Ef; Polwhele’ s Hi Antiquities of 
5g hes 3 vols. 4to. and Beauties of England and Wales 
vol. i 
HELVE, the handle of a hatchet, a mattock, &c. 
and to helve thefe i is a put pssst to the 
HELVE n Bot ord u fed b y Cicero for 
fome fort of ‘ent scape of being dreffed (® “id pogo 
of which he fpeak the 
genus ; fom ed be writes it Pde after the Italian. 
authors Lin Gen 568. Schreb. 769. Mart. Mill. Di 
, Bas p. Fung. 614. Hudf Angl. 632.- Jul. 4. 
Euadiock: fiche. t. 885. —Clafs« and order, Crypcgamia- 
Fungi. Nat. Ord. Fungi. 
Ed. Ch. Cap membranons, — rather deformed, 
deflexed at each margin, {moot 
n both fides. 
Perfoon in his Synopfis ‘iiabudanes but nine fpecies of 
Helvella ; one hho: any ftalk; three’ with a F rfowed 
ftalk ; and five with a fmooth or even one. 
“e "y. acaulis, figured in Scheffer’s Fungi, t. 153.—~ 
Seffile,. waved, ex ith brown ; ries and fibr> us 
underneath. —— on the ground in fir foretts. It grows 
either aggregate, one inch in diameter, or three 
or four. ‘This at salieren t from H. acaulis of Hudfon, 
: ealiahs ia: wn star nwlatia jaa refume-alfo from H. pineti 
ae am alana te uent on the flems ot firs, 
reduced t6 : charter 
Wav erected in nd bp be -po- but of the aw we have . ion able to come to any cer= 
ration to nit if , five MN, a acter, and ti6 
sare, Soe men. This harer met ak «« wee Mitra. Linn. Sp. Pla 1649. ‘Scholf; t. Lagoon 
pent eee peta cue remaining ne s of the old Cap tumid,. ai of a blackith livid hue. Stalk 
forporation, and peesioodl very fingular ; furrowed , age eg This may ferve for a fpeci 
but is nc Bow conlidered asthe only Chav in foroe Hel. 2 men of the fecond fection, t is no . 
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