one of the highest mountains of England, county of Cumberland, about half-way between Keswick and Ambleside. Height 3055 feet above the level of the sea. It is easy of ascent, and commands an extensive view of the lake district.

HELVETTI, in Ancient Geography, a warlike and powerful Celtic tribe in Gaul, inhabiting the country now Helvetia, represented by the western portion of Switzerland. In the time of Caesar, when they first became historically important, their country was bounded by the Rhine on the E. and N., by Mount Jura on the W., and by the Rhone and the Lake of Geneva on the S. It was divided into four pagi or cantons, containing in all, according to Caesar, 12 towns and 400 villages. Of the names of these pagi only two are known, the Tigurinus and the Verbigenus; or, as it is sometimes, though less correctly written, Urbigenus. It is conjectured that the other two were held by the Tugeni and the Ambrones. The brief history of the Helvetii is known to all who have read the Commentaries of Caesar. They aspired to make themselves the sovereign people of Gaul. Their own territory had become too small for their numbers, and was inferior in climate and fertility to the rest of the country, and they were exposed to incessant attacks from their restless neighbours of Germany. Such were probably the motives that induced them to leave their homes in a body and set out in quest of a happier clime, after burning their towns, villages, and personal property, all but the proportion of corn which it was decreed that each man should carry with him. The utter failure of their expedition, and the fearful slaughter with which it was accompanied, are described in the first book of the Gallic War by the great captain who alone, with a few legions, overthrew the vast host of the Helvetii. Of the 368,000 souls that left the Helvetian territory, only 110,000 returned to it. The survivors were compelled to rebuild all the towns and villages that had been burnt down; and as they had lost everything in the expedition, their neighbours, the Allobroges, received instructions from the conqueror to assist them with everything necessary for their support till they were once more able to support themselves. (The whole question of the Helvetian expedition is very fully discussed in Smith's Dict. Geog. by Mr George Long.)