norance and superstition, and ping interests 
piet » with all his 
he must unquestionably as one of 
ornaments of the age in which he lived. 
His works, which were very voluminous, consist of 
translations from the Greek ; grammatical and philo- 
a a yap various treatises on moral and re- 
; a version of the New Testament ; para- 
cet pe gee several parts of sacred 
scripture ; apologies, epistles, declamati 
poems, LC ontnyis apophthegms, editions of poco Bae ov ving 
&e. His were the most favourably 
received of his theological uctions ; and his collo- 
quies, and of folly, have been the most frequent- 
ly printed of all his wri The best and most ele- 
edition of his works is that 
Le Clerc, in eleven volumes folio, 1703. See Jor- 
tin’s Life Lf Bremess parie's Dict seen id 
Biogra, 1 iclionary ; rtson’s istory 0, r 
V. Bal ip. 156 Le ‘Clerc’s Bibl. Univ. gal aan 
Hoy 
= 
aie Milner’s Church Hist. vol. iv. App. p. xvi, and 
pp- 845, 943, 1060. (g 
EREMOPHILA. Botany, p. 258. ; 
ERFURTH, Exrort, or Exrunr, ene 
or Erpis, is an ancient town of tly 
situated on the river Gera, which flows "through the 
town ae pecan branches. Al oe twit is in 
t, yet it possesses sev buildings 
on on arene which aie built nts 
contains a huge w wei 30,250 poun n 
the cidevant convent of the Bee is shewn the 
who is said to have been interred there beside his two 
wives. The universi 
1392, and half of the chairs were filled by Catholics, and 
the other half by Protestants. In 1754, the Acade- 
my of Sciences was founded, which was subsequently 
enlarged by the addition of a botanical garden, an ana- 
tomical theatre, Pe oerveters , ariding school, and a 
society of natural the princi public libra- 
ries in pry hr of the Fore of the Academy of 
Physics, of the Scottish Benedictines, #4 of the cae id 
ran am epaeny. The ay of the Scottish Benedic- 
tines possesses a cabinet of physical and mathematical 
instruments; and that of the Lutheran ministry con- 
tained some ancient MSS. of the Hebrew Bible. The 
house for the of Lutherans was formerly the 
and contains a cal 
which was generally considered as a place 
of till the year 1806, when the French enter- 
ed it resistance, The country around Erfurth 
so See Ie cee encl vines, andl sboundls 94, Giastand eat- 
Erpes,* yards 
of Erfurth was established in 
Surt mit selves Merkwurdighkeiten und ronan om 
D. Arnold, Gotha 1802,8vo. (w) 
ERIACHNE. See Borany, p. 115. 
ERIANTHUS. See Borany, p. 116, 
ERIC. See Denmark. ; b aie 
ERICA. See Borany, p. 202. emir 
. ERIGERON. See Borany, P, 301. warsegy av Sigs 
. ERINUS. See Borany, p. 252. . 
ERIOCAULON. See Borany, p.. 109. 
ERIOCEPHALUS. .. See Borany, p. 309. . 
ERIOCHILUS. See Borany, p. 307. . 
ERIOGONUM. See Botany, p. 208. ts 
ERIOPHORUM, | See waenys Pl 100. ' “ 
eeroens, ut 
fort, whi prea Sys Bara Lee pas } 
ed with towers, The town is large, dirty, and ill bui 
The churches, which resemble 5, are 
and half buried in the ground. There are 28 
endowed conyents in town and nei ibourhood fi 
both sexes. ; 
Erivan does not at p re on & pr 
perce stanyiayqeun a fat A Tia 
sieges to a ruinous bya 
Bee a ean Gatun beet ee 
town fr sary sx onthe sd at Ist tempted n 
vain to carry it They were repulsed 
slaughter, aad ait nearly half of the army ed 
uring its retreat to Teflis, The Turks and Pe 
however, have repeatedly taken the town;.and it has 
remained in the possession of the latter since the peace 
of Nadir Shah, in 1748, 
to the north-east oa ae 
About two da smear 
is the beautiful hich the Persians call 
reen, or Goucheh. It is about five fursungs 
and abounds in trout, and other del O fish, The 
tne sncny ofthe tne Sure, ich Sr 
John Chardin has particnlarly described 
miles from Erivan, At a short di 
of the Saven.i¢ the Sanoee ana 
the ark rested. after the deluge. According 
Sutherland, it forms an angle of an immense 
range of 
mountains, and has. two summits, on the highest of 
which the natives believe that part of the ark stil] re- 
