Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . iking are the residence of the governor,the senate-house, and the university university, removed hither from Abo in 1829,where it had been foiinded in 1640, comprises fivefaculties, has 60 professors, and generally about600 students. In connection with it are a libraryof 80,000 volumes, a hospital, a botanic garden,and a valuable observatory. Since 1840, H. hasbeen a favourite bathing-place, and attracts manyvisitors during simimer from St Petersburg. Thetown carries on a considerable trade in Balticproduce ; it expor
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . iking are the residence of the governor,the senate-house, and the university university, removed hither from Abo in 1829,where it had been foiinded in 1640, comprises fivefaculties, has 60 professors, and generally about600 students. In connection with it are a libraryof 80,000 volumes, a hospital, a botanic garden,and a valuable observatory. Since 1840, H. hasbeen a favourite bathing-place, and attracts manyvisitors during simimer from St Petersburg. Thetown carries on a considerable trade in Balticproduce ; it exports chiefly corn, fish, deals, andiron; and manufactures sailcloth and linen. ,160. H. was foxmded by Gustaviis I. of Sweden in the16th c, but the site of the town was removed nearerthe shore in 1639. In 1819, it became the capitalof Finland. During the late Russian war, Sveaborgwas bombarded for two days and nights (9tii and10th August 1855) by a section of tlie allied fleet,without any material impression being made uponthe forts. S03 HELST— Helvella Esculenta. HELST, Laetholomew vax der, a Dutclipainter, was born at Haarlem in 1613, and died atAmsterdam in 1670. He attained great celebrityas a portrait-painter, and his -n-orks are uiimerousin Holland; one in particidar (in the Chamberof Justice at Amsterdam), representing thirty fiill-lenffth figm-cs of a train-band th the Spanishambassador in the midst, was pronounced by SirJoshua Rej-nolds to be the first picture of portraitsin the world. HELSTOXE, an old market-town and municipaland parhanientary borough in the county of Corn-wall, England, is pleasantly situated on an elevation,at the head of a pretty valley opening to the sea,about 10 miles west-south-west of Falmouth. Itwas made a boroughby King John in 1201,and from the reign ofEilward I. to the passingof the Reform Act, itsent two members toparhament. May-games,or Floralia, once com-mon throughout Eng-land, are still kept uphere. Pop. (ISTl) m.
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