EGGISHORN 



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EGLINTON TOURNAMENT 



Eggishorn. Mountain of the 

 Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, in 

 the canton of Valais. It is the 

 loftiest peak of the ridge separating 

 the Aletsch Glacier from the Rh6ne 

 Valley. Alt. 9,625 ft. On its S.E. 

 slope is the Jungfrau- Eggishorn 

 Hotel, at an alt. of '7,195 ft. 



Egg-plant (Solanum melon- 

 gena). Herb of the natural order 

 Solanaceae. The leaves are oval, 

 lobed, and woolly beneath ; the 

 flowers are similar to those of the to- 

 mato, white, yellow, or purple. The 

 fruit, a berry as large as a goose- 



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Egg-plant. Specimen ot the edible herb, 

 showing leaves, flower, and berries 



egg, is white or purple. The herb 

 is edible, and largely grown for 

 food. It is also called brinjal, Jews' 

 apple, and rind apple. 



Egg Society. Cooperative syn- 

 dicate for collecting the eggs of 

 small producers, grading and mar- 

 keting them. Some counties have 

 as many as nine or ten egg societies, 

 and one society will collect and dis- 

 pose of 10,000 eggs in a singleseason. 



Egg Testing. Eggs are tested 

 by holding them to a light, special 

 lamps being sold for this pur- 

 pose. A perfectly fresh egg is quite 

 clear and uniform. An egg that has 

 been, kept some time has a space at 

 one end owing to evaporation 

 through the shell, and sometimes 

 air bubbles are scattered about the 

 interior. When the egg is bad the 

 interior shows dark spots and the 

 yolk is often seen clinging to the 

 side of the shell. In large egg stores 

 eggs pass on an endless chain over 

 a brilliant light and the examiner 

 removes those that are not fresh. 



Eg ham. Urban dist. and parish 

 of Surrey, England. It stands on 

 the Thames, 21 m. W.S.W. of 

 London by the L. & S.W.R. Here 

 are the Royal Holloway College, 

 which provides advanced education 

 for 250 women, and Holloway 

 Sanatorium, a large private asylum 

 for the mentally deficient, opened 

 in 1885. Pop. 12,551. 



Egin OR EKIM. Town of Ar- 

 menia, in the vilayet of Mamuret- 

 ul-Aziz. It stands on the right 



bank of the Kara Su or Western 

 Euphrates, 140 m. S.W. of Trebi- 

 zond, and was the scene of mas- 

 sacres of Armenians in 1895. Dur- 

 ing the Great War it was occupied 

 by the Russians in 1915, and aban- 

 doned by order of the Bolshevist 

 government during the winter of 

 1917-18. Pop. 8,000. 



Eglantine. Name applied by 

 the earlier poets, notably Chaucer, 

 Spenser, and Shakespeare, to the 

 sweet briar (Rosa eglanteria). In 

 Milton it probably refers to the 

 honeysuckle (Lonicera pericly- 

 menum), still called eglantine in 

 parts of Yorkshire. See Sweet 

 Briar. 



Eglinton. Village of Ayrshire, 

 Scotland, in the parish of Kil- 

 winning. It is 

 chiefly notable for p~ 

 its castle, a seat ; 

 of the earl of Eg- | 

 linton. This is a 

 modern building 

 dating from 1798. 

 but modelled on 

 the baronial cas- 

 tles with towers 

 and a keep. The 

 village is on a coal- 

 field, and near are 

 large ironworks 

 and coal mines. 



Eglinton, EARL 

 or. Scottish title 

 held by the family 

 of Montgomerie 

 since 1508. Sir 

 Alexander Mont- 

 gomerie was made a lord of the 

 Scottish parliament about 1445, 

 and his grandson Hugh, the 3rd 

 lord, was made earl of Eglinton in 

 1508. Hugh, the 3rd earl, was a 

 supporter of Mary Queen of Scots. 



and when the 5th earl died the 

 family in the male line became ex- 

 tinct. The titles and estate then 

 passed by special settlement to 

 Alexander Seton, a grandson of the 

 3rd earl, who became the 6th earl, 

 taking the name of Montgomerie. 



Archibald, the llth earl (1726- 

 96), served in America against the 

 French. His successor, Hugh, be- 

 came earl in 1796, and was made a 

 peer of the United Kingdom in 1 806. 

 He was responsible for building 

 Eglinton Castle. His grandson and 

 successor, Archibald, the 13th earl 

 (1812-61), a Tory politician, was 

 the organizer of the famous 

 Eglinton Tournament. In 1859 he 

 was made earl of Winton, a title 

 held by his ancestors, the Setons. 





Eglinton. The castle, built in 1798, seat of the Earl 

 of Eglinton, and scene of the famous tournament 



Valentine 



The earl's eldest son is known as 

 Lord Montgomerie. 



Eglinton Tournament, THE. 

 Revival of the medieval tourna- 

 ment by the 13th earl of Eglinton. 

 It was held at Eglinton Castle, Aug. 



linton Tournament. The Lord of the Tournament, the Earl of Eglinton. being 

 presented to the Queen of Beauty, Lady Seymour 



From a, contemporary print 



