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ELLERMAN LINES 



are many rock-cut tombs with 

 agricultural and domestic scenes. 

 The royal residence lay across the 

 stream at Hieraconpolis ^ .; 



El Kantara. Town of Egypt, 

 situated on the Suez Canal. Here 

 on Jan. 26, 1915, in their first in- 

 vasion of Egypt, an advance 

 guard of Turks came into touch 

 with a British patrol. On Feb. 3 

 they launched subsidiary attacks 

 against the canal at El Kantara 

 and other points to cover their 

 main attack at Serapeum, 32 m. 

 further S. This battle for the 

 canal ended in the complete defeat 

 of the Turks. A British war me- 

 morial is to be erected here. See 

 Egypt ; Palestine, Conquest of. 



ElKefr. Village of Palestine. It 

 lies in the foothills of Mt. Ephraim, 

 18 m. E. by N. of Joppa, and 

 16 m. S.W. of Shechem. It was 

 captured together with Refat by 

 the British on April 9, 1918. See 

 Palestine, Conquest of. 



Elkesaites OK ELCHASAITES. 

 Heretical 3rd century sect which 

 followed alleged revelations con- 

 tained in the Book of Elchasai. 

 This taught that the Son of God 

 had been manifested in the persons 

 of many good men, and that Christ 

 was merely one of these manifes- 

 tations. 



Elkhart. City of Indiana,U.S.A., 

 in Elkhart co. At the junction of 

 the Elkhart and St. Joseph rivers, 

 100 m. E.S.E. of Chicago, it is 

 served by the Lake Shore and 

 Michigan S. and other rlys. Settled 

 about 1833, it received its city 

 charter in 1875. Pop. 21,735. 



Elkhorn. River of Nebraska, 

 U.S.A. Rising in the N. part of the 

 state, it flows 200 m. S.E. to La 

 Platte river, an affluent of the 

 Missouri. 



Elkington, GEORGE RICHARDS 

 (1801-65). British manufacturer. 

 Bom Oct. 17, 1801, at Birming- 

 ham, the son of a spectacle-maker, 

 he became partner and afterwards 

 sole proprietor of his uncle's silver- 

 plating business in that city. By 

 energy and experiment he made 

 electro -plating a commercial pro- 

 position, and superseded the old- 

 fashioned method of plating by 

 soldering thin sheets of silver upon 

 copper. He died Sept. 22, 1865. 



El Kosseir. Seaport of Upper 

 Egypt. It stands on the Red Sea, 

 96 m. E. of Keneh, and has a ^ood 

 harbour. Pop. 2,000. 



Elk's-horn Fern (Platycenum). 

 A small genus of large epiphytal 

 ferns. They are natives of Aus- 

 tralia, Malaya, and Africa. The 

 lower fronds, which are barren, are 

 thick and undivided, and spread 

 close to the tree-trunk on which 

 they grow. The much longer fertile 

 fronds present the appearance of a 



tfiKnJ 



Elk's-horn Fern. Specimen of 



Platycerium grande, growing on a 



tree trunk 



stag's antlers. In an Indian species 

 (P. bi forme) they are from 6 ft. 

 to 15 ft. in length. 



El Kutrani. Village of Hejaz. 

 It is on the Hejaz Rly., 80 m. N. 

 of Maan on the borders of Moab, 

 and was finally captured in the 

 great Allied offensive in the autumn 

 of 1918. See Hejaz; Palestine, 

 Conquest of. 



Ell (Lat. ulna, Ger. ellenbogen, 

 Eng. elbow). Medieval European 

 measure of length. It varies from 

 the English ell, probably borrowed 

 from France, which equals 45 ins., 

 to the Scottish of 37 ins. and the 

 Flemish of 27 ins. 



Ellagic Acid OR BEZOARDIC ACID 

 (C 14 H 6 8 ). Constituent of the animal 

 concretions which are met with in 

 Oriental countries under the name 

 of bezoars. It can also be made 

 artificially by treating gallic acid 

 in acetic acid solution with potas- 

 sium persulphate and sulphuric 

 acid. The name is Fr. gatte (gall) 

 reversed, with suffix ic. 



Elland. Town 

 and urban dis- 

 trict of York- 

 shire (W.R.). It 

 stands on the 

 Calder, 3 m. 

 S.E. of Halifax, 

 and has a station 

 on the L. & Y. 

 Rly. The indus- 

 tries include the 

 manufacture of 

 textiles, while 

 there are stone 

 quarries in the 

 neighbourhood. 

 The chief of 

 several public 

 buildings is S. 



AfterSirThos. Lawrenc 



Ellenborough, EDWARD LAW, 

 BARON (1750-1818). British lawyer. 

 Born at GreatSalkeld, Cumberland, 

 Nov. 16, 1750, he was educated at 

 Charterhouse and Peterhouse, Cam- 

 bridge. He was 

 called to the 

 bar in 1780 and 

 eight years 

 later was lead- 

 ing counsel 

 for Warren 

 Hastings 

 (q.v.). In 1802 

 he was ap- 

 pointed lord 

 chief justice 

 and created a 

 peer. He re- 

 signed office in Nov., 1818, and 

 died Dec. 13, 1818. 



Ellenborough, EDWARD LAW, 

 EARL OF (1790-1871). British ad- 

 ministrator. Born Sept. 8, 1790, 

 the eldest son 

 of the first 

 Baron Ellen - 

 borough, h e 

 was educated 

 at Eton and S. 

 John's College, 

 Cambridge, 

 and in 1813 

 entered Parlia- 

 m e n t. Made 

 lord privy seal 

 in 1828, he was 

 transferred the same year to the 

 presidency of the board of control, 

 and in 1841 became governor- 

 general of India. He annexed Sind 

 in 1842 and subdued Gwalior in 

 1844. He was made first lord of 

 the Admiralty in 1846, and presi- 

 dent of the board of control in 

 1858. He died Dec. 22, 1871. 



Ellen's Isle OR EILEAN MOLACH. 

 Islet in Loch Katrine, Perthshire, 

 Scotland. It is largely the scene 

 of Scott's Lady of the Lake. 



Eller man Lines. British steam- 

 ship company. An offshoot of the 

 Bibby line founded in 1840, it was 



1st Earl of Ellen- 

 borough, 

 British administrator 



Mary's Church. 

 Pop. 10,676. 



Ellen's Isle, the woody islet on Loch Katrine immor- 

 talised in Scott's poem, The Lady of the Lake 



