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and to three, and at length to nine. They affembled in a 
place called EA^to^Wiov, in the Elian forum, where they 
were obliged to retide ten months before the celebration 
of the games, to take care that ftich as offered them- 
felves to contend performed their preparatory exer- 
cifes, and to be 'inftrudted in all the laws of games by 
certainmen called to/zoipvXaxtb i. e. “ keepers of the laws.” 
And to prevent unjuft pradtices, they were compelled to 
take an oath, that they would adt impartially, take no 
bribes, nor difeover the reafon for which they approved’ 
or difapproved of any of the contenders. At the fo- 
lemnity they fat naked, having before them the vidto- 
rial crown, till the exercifes were finiflied, and then it 
was prefented to whomfoever they adjudged it. Never- 
thelefsj there lay an appeal from the hellenodicae to the 
Olympian fenate. 
HEL'LERBACH, a river of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Janer, which runs into the Hatzbach nearRo- 
verfdorf. 
HELLES-KER'RIES, a clufter of fmall iflands of 
Scotland, near the weftern coaft, ten miles weft of Rum 
Iftand. Lat. 57. N. Ion. 3.40. W. Edinburgh. 
HELLESPONT, a narrow ftrait between A/ia and 
Europe, near the Propontis, which received its name 
from Helle, who was drowned there in her voyage to Col¬ 
chis. It is celebrated for the love and death of Lean- 
der, and for the bridge of boats which Xerxes built 
over it when he invaded Greece. It is now called the 
Dardanelles, which fee. 
HELLESPON'TI AS, a wind blowing from the north- 
daft. Pliny. 
HELLGA'TE, a celebrated ftrait belonging to the 
American States, near the weft end of Long Iftand 
Sound, oppofire to Harlem in York Iftand, and about 
eight mites north-eaft of New York city; remarkable 
for its whirlpools, which make a tremendous roaring at 
certain times of the tide. Thefe whirlpools are occa- 
fioned by the.narrowfiefs and crookednefs of the paffage, 
and a bed of rocks which extends quite acfofs it;-and' 
not by the meeting of the tides from eaft to weft, as has 
been conjectured, becaule they meet at Frog’s Point, 
feveral miles above. A Ikilfttl pilot may condudta (hip 
of any burden, with fafety, through this ftrait, at high 
water with the tide, or at low water with a fair wind. 
There is a tradition among the Indians, that in very re¬ 
mote times their anceftors could ftep from rock to rock, 
and crofs this arm of the fea at Hellgate. 
HEL'LIMER, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridt of Sarguemine : two leagues and three quarters 
weft of Sar Albe, and three fouth-fouth-eaft of St. Avoid. 
HEL'LIN, a town of Spain, in the province of Mur¬ 
cia : feventeen rriiks fouth of Chinchilla. 
HEL'LlSH, adj. Sent from hell; belonging to hell. 
—O thou celeftial or infernal fpirit of love, or what other 
heavenly or hdlijk title thou lift to Have, for effedts of 
both I find in myfelf, have compallion of me. Sidney. 
Vidtory and triumph to the Son of God, 
Now entering his great duel, not of arms, 
But tovanquilh by wifdom hellfh wiles. Miltom 
Having the qualities of hell; infernal ; wicked ; detef- 
tabL.—No benefits fhall ever allay that diabolical ran¬ 
cour that ferments in fome kellijh breads, but that it will 
foam out at its foul mouth in llander. South. 
BEL'LISHLY, adv. Infernally; wickedly; detefta- 
HEL'LISHNESS, f. Wickednefs; abhorred qualities. 
HELLO'PlA, in ancient geography, a fmall country 
of EuLoeu. The people were called Hellopes, The whole 
iftand bore the fame name, according to Strabo. 
HE/L'LOT (John), an eminent French chemift, born 
in 1686. He was deftined to the ecclefiaftical profeflion ; 
but the bent of his mind determined him to the purfuit 
ot metallurgy and chemiltry. He was engaged from 
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1718 to 1732 in the compilation of the Gazette de France. 
He tranflated by order of the government, and enriched 
with his own remarks, the treatife On the Fufion of 
Ores, and on Fo.underies, by Schlatter, printed at Paris 
in 1750, .2 vols. 4to. He wrote L' Art de la Teiiituro dec 
Laines & Etcjfes de Laines , nmo. 1750, which is an excel¬ 
lent work upon dying; and is the firft in which chemi¬ 
cal principles are applied to the theory of that art. He- 
furnifiied feveral articles to the Memoirs of the Acade¬ 
my of Sciences, of which he was a member ; as like- 
wife of the Royal Society of London. He obtained re¬ 
putation by fome other works ; and died, generally ef- 
teemed, at Paris, in 1766. 
HELLO'TIA, in Grecian antiquity, two' feftivais, 
one of which was obferved in Crete, in honour of Eu- 
ropa, wliofe bones were then carried in folemn procef- 
fion with a myrtle garland no lefs than twenty cubits in 
circumference, called EAXwn?. The other feltival was ce¬ 
lebrated at Corinth with games and races, where young 
men entered the lifts, and generally ran with burning 
torches in their hands. It was inftituted in honour of 
Minerva, (irnamed Elotis, uiro rov tAov?, from a certain 
pond of Marathon where one of her ftatues was eredted, 
or too etetv rou roe ran Tl^yoeirov, becaufe by her a(- 
fiftance Bellerophon took and managed the horfe Pega- 
fus, which was the original caufe of the inftitution of. 
the feltival. Others derive the name from Hellolis, a 
Corinthian woman, from the following circumftance ; 
When the Dorians and the Heraclidae invaded Pelopon- 
nefus, they took and burnt Corinth ; the inhabitants, 
and particularly the women, efcaped by flight,, except 
Hellotis and her After Eurytione, who took'(belter in 
Minerva’s temple, relying for fafety upon the 1'andtity 
of the place. When this was known; the Dorians fet 
fire to the temple, and the two fillers periflied in the 
flames. This wanton cruelty was followed by a dread¬ 
ful plague ; and the Doriaps, to alleviate the misfortunes 
which they fuftered, were diredted by the oracle to ap- 
peafe the manes of the two fitters ; and therefore they 
railed a new temple to the goddefs of Minerva,, and efta- 
bliftted the feftivals which bore the name of one of the 
unfortunate women. 
HELL'WARD, adv. Toward hell : 
Be next thy care the fable ftteep to place 
Full o’er the pit, and hellward turn their face. Pope. 
HELM denotes defence : as Eadhelm, happy defence; 
Sighelm, vidtorious defence ; Bertkelm, eminent defence ; 
like Amyntas and Boetivs among the Greeks. Gibjords Camden. 
HELM,y. [helm, Sax. from helan, to cover, to pro- 
tedl.] A covering for the'fttead in war; a helmet; a 
morrion ; a headpiece ; 
Prance fpreads his banners in ou'r noifelefs land ! 
With plumed helm the flayer begins his threats. Shakcfp. 
The part of a coat of arms that bears the. creft.—More 
might be added of helms, crefts, mantles, and fupporters. 
Camden. —The upper part of the retort.—The vulgar 
chemifts themfelves pretend to be able, by repeated co- 
hobations,, and other fit operations, to make the diftilled 
parts of a concrete bring its own caput meprtuum over the 
helm. Boyle. [Jjelma, Sax.] Thefteerage; the rudder 
of a fliip, for the principles of which fee the article Na¬ 
val Architecture. 
More in profperity is reafon toft 
Than (hips in ftprms, their helms and anchors loft. Denham-. 
Fair occafion (hews the fpringing gale. 
And int’reft guides the helm, and honour fwells the fail.. 
Prior. 
The ftation of government.—-I may be wrong in the 
means; but that is no objedtion againft the deiigu : let 
thole- at the helm contrive it better. Swift. —In the fol¬ 
lowing line it is difficult to determine whether Jleerfman 
or defender is intended ; 
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