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house built by Sir James Douglass 

 in 1882. To the left are the re- 

 mains of Smeaton's tower of 1759 



Edea. Town of Cameroons, W. 

 Africa. It stands on the Sanaga 

 river and is a station on the line 

 running inland from Duala, being 

 about 50 m. from that port. The 

 capital of the district of the same 

 name, it is a centre for collecting 

 palm oil and palm kernels. During 

 the campaign in Cameroons a 

 British and French force took the 

 town, Oct. 26, 1914, the Germans 

 making a futile effort to retake it 

 in Dec., 1914, and in Jan., 1915. 

 Pop. of district, 97,000. See Came- 

 roons, Conquest of. 



Edelfelt, ALBERT GUSTAF ARTS- 

 TIDE (1854-1905). Finnish painter. 

 Born at Helsingfors, July 21, 1854. 

 he was trained at Antwerp Acad- 

 emy and at the Ecole des Beaux 

 Arts under J. L. Gerorne. He 

 painted landscapes, portraits, and 

 compositions with equal skill. In- 

 vited by Tsar Alexander III to paint 

 the portraits of his children, he 

 produced, while in Russia, several 

 works in landscape and genre. He 

 died at Bo'-ga, Aug. 18, 1905. 

 Hifc finest and most characteristic 

 works are Divine Service in the 

 Skaergaad, at the Luxembourg ; 

 Pasteur in his Laboratory, at 

 the Sorbonne : Laundry ; Jesus 

 appearing to Mary Magdalen, and 

 Women in the Churchyard, both 

 at Helsingfors. 



Edelinck, GERARD (1640-1707). 

 Flemish engraver. Born at Antwerp 

 Oct. 20. 1640, he was the pupil of 

 Gaspard Hu- 

 be r t i and 

 Cornells Galle. 

 Visiting Paris 

 in 1665, on 

 the invitation 

 of Colbert, he 

 practised there 

 for the rest of 

 his life, and is 

 more properly 



Gerard Edelinck, classed with 

 Blemish engraver the French 



After Ri gaud S C h O O 1. He 



obtained ample patronage from 

 Louis XIV, was received in the 

 Academy in 1677, and died in Paris 

 April 2, 1707. He became one of 

 the most brilliant line engravers of 

 the 17th century. In portraiture 

 Edelinck was no less accomplished, 

 his portraits of John Dryden and 

 Philippe de Champaigne being of 

 particular excellence. 



Edelweiss (Leontopodium al- 

 pinum). Perennial herb of the nat- 

 ural order Compositae. A native of 

 the mountains of S. Europe, and 

 Himalaya, it is thickly coated with 

 long woolly hairs, which give it a 

 white appearance, accentuated in 

 the bracts which surround the 

 cluster of terminal yellowish flower- 

 heads. The leaves are lance- 

 shaped, and the plant is about 6 



Edelweiss. Specimen of the plant, 

 photographed on a mountain side 



ins. high. It occurs locally in the 

 Alps, but the idea that it is ex- 

 ceedingly rare and can only be 

 gathered in circumstances of great 

 danger is erroneous. The name is 

 German, meaning " noble white." 



Eden. English river rising on 

 the borders of Westmorland and 

 Yorkshire, and flowing N.W. past 

 Kirkby Stephen and Appleby into 

 Cumberland, and then past Carlisle 

 to the Solway Firth, which it 

 enters at Rockcliff. Its length is 

 65 m., and it contains salmon. 



Eden. River of Fifeshire, Scot- 

 land. It is formed by the conflu- 

 ence of two small burns, the Beattie 

 and the Carmore, at the Kinross - 

 shire border, and flows E.N.E. 

 through the Howe of Fife and past 

 Cupar to the North Sea, which it 

 enters by a muddy estuary 6 m. in 

 length ; total length 30 m. There 

 is good salmon fishing. 



Eden. British destroyer. She 

 displaced 550 tons, and had four 

 12-pdr. guns, two 18-in. torpedo 

 tubes, and a speed of 25 knots. 

 She was sunk in the English Chan- 

 nel as the result of a collision on 

 the night of June 16, 1916. About 

 40 officers and men were lost. 



Eden, GARDEN OF. In the ear- 

 liest Biblical account (the Jah- 

 wistic) of Creation (Gen. ii, 8-25) 

 Yahweh Elohim plants a garden 

 eastward (from the Palestinian 

 standpoint) in Eden (Gen. ii, 8) for 

 man to dwell in. In the Septuagint 

 the word for garden, Heb. gan, is re- 

 presented by paradeisos, a loan- 

 word (Hebraised parties) from the 

 Zend pairi-daeza, " enclosure " ; 

 hence arises the term Paradise as a 

 description of Eden and of the 

 Christian Heaven. The garden of 

 Eden seems to have been thought 

 of as a park or pleasure-ground , in 

 Gen. iii, 8, Yahweh Elohim is de- 

 scribed as walking in the garden in 

 the cool of the evening (cf. Isa. Ii, 3 ; 

 Ezek. xxviii,13,xxxi,8). The name 

 Eden has been derived from the 

 Babylonian edinu, plain or steppe, 

 but a more likely derivation is from 

 the Hebrew eden, delight. 



The location of Eden is difficult 

 to determine. Sayce identifies the 

 garden with the sacred garden of the 

 Babylonian deity Ea at Eridu, the 

 river which watered it (Gen. ii, 10) 

 being the Persian Gulf, and the four 

 branches (w. 1 1-14) being the Palla- 

 kopas, the Choaspes, the Tigris, and 

 the Euphrates. E. Naville (Archaeo- 

 logy of the O.T., 1913), comparing 

 Gen. xiii, 10, ".like the garden of 

 the Lord, like the land of Egypt as 

 thou goest unto Zoar," and identi- 

 fying Zoar with the Egyptian Zar 

 (mod. Kantarah), thinks that the 

 narrator located the garden in 

 Egypt in the western part of the 

 Delta between the Tanitic and 

 Pelusiac branches ; Fall of the Nile. 

 See Creation Legends; Fall. 



Edenbridge. Market town of 

 Kent, England. It stands on the 

 Eden, 25 m. S.S.E. of London by 

 the S.E. & C. and L.B. & S.C. Rlys. 

 It is an agricultural centre. Market 

 day, Wed. Pop. 2,993. 



Edenhall. Parish and village of 

 Cumberland, England. It stands 

 on the Eden, 3 m. N.E. of Penrith. 



Edenhall. Drinking gooiet and 

 case known as the Luck of Eden 

 Hall 



i drawing by C. O. Barprr 



