HELMONT, a small town in the Netherlands, in Dutch Brabant, and capital of the district of Peeland, with a good castle. It is seated on the river Aa, in E. Long. 5. 37. N. Lat. 51. 31. HELMSTADT, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, built by Charlemagne, in E. Long. 11. 10. N. Lat. 52. 20. HELMSTADT, a strong maritime town of Sweden, and capital of the province of Halland, seated near the Baltic sea; in E. Long. 21. 5. N. Lat. 56. 44. HELONIAS, a genus of plants belonging to the hexandra class; and in the natural method ranking under the 10th order, Coronarie. See BOTANY INDEX. HELOISE, celebrated on account of her unfortunate affection for her tutor Abelard, and for her Latin letters to him after they had retired from the world. She died abbess of Paraclet in 1163. See ABELARD. HELOS, in Ancient Geography, a maritime town of Laconia, situated between Trinasus and Acris, in Pausanias's time in ruins. The district was called Helotea, and the people Helotes, Helotæ, Helei, and Heleatæ, by Stephanus; and Hloæ, by Livy. Being subdued by the Lacedæmonians, they were all reduced to a state of public slavery, or made the slaves of the public, on these conditions, viz. that they neither could recover their liberty nor be sold out of the territory of Sparta. Hence