Elsinore, Denmark. View of the Narrows at the entrance 



to The Sound, with the ferry which crosses to Helsingborg 



on the Swedish coast 



Elsinore (Dan. Helsingor). Sea- 

 port in Denmark. In the dist. of 

 Frederiksborg and on the island of 

 Zealand, it stands on The Sound, 

 and has ferry communication with 

 Helsingborg on the Swedish coast, 

 and connexion by rly. with Copen- 

 hagen. Shipbuilding is the princi- 

 pal occupation, and iron-founding, 

 engineering, and agriculture are car- 

 ried on. The place is referred to in 

 Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop. 13,783. 



Elster. Name of two rivers of 

 Germany., the Schwarze (black) 

 and Weisse (white). The former 

 rises in the mountains between 

 Saxony and Bohemia and flows 

 mainly N. until it falls into the Elbe 

 10 m. from Wittenberg. Its length 

 is 110 m. The white Elster rises 

 near Eger in the Elstergebirge in 

 Bohemia, but most of its course is in 

 Saxony. It falls into the Saale in 

 two branches, one near Halle and 

 the other near Merseburg. It flows 

 past Plauen and Leitz, and past 

 Leipzig, where the Pleisse joins it. 

 Its length is 120 m. The town and 

 watering-place of Elster stands 

 on the white Elster near the Bohe- 

 mian border. The Elstergebirge is 

 a range of mountains in Bohemia. 

 It runs from the Erzgebirge to 

 the Fichtelgebirge, and reaches a 

 height of 2,630 ft. 



Elstow (formerly Helenstow). 

 Parish and village of Bedfordshire, 

 England. It is 1 m. S. of Bedford 

 and is noted as the birthplace of 

 John Bunyan (q.v,). Pop. 499. 



Els tree. Parish and village of 

 Hertfordshire, England. It is a sta- 

 tion on the M.R., 7 m. S. of St. 

 Albans. The church of S. Nicolas 

 was rebuilt in the 19th century. 

 Here are paper mills and a large 

 reservoir used for fishing and boat- 

 ing. Pop. 1,939. 



Elswick. Parish of Northum- 

 berland, England, forming a ward 

 in the W. of the co. bor. of New- 

 castle, with station on the N.E.R. 

 Here are situated the extensive Els- 

 wick Works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, 

 Whitworth & Co., Ltd. During 



of the 

 area of 

 By 



the Great War vast quantities of 

 munitions of war were manufac- 

 tured here. Elswick . Park was 

 opened as a public recreation 

 ground in 1878. Pop. 58,352. See 

 Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. 



El Teb, BATTLE OF. Fought by 

 the British, Feb. 29, 1884, against 

 the Arabs. El Teb is a post in the 

 Anglo -Egyptian Sudan, on the road 

 from Trinkitat on the Red Sea to 

 Tokar. In 1883 Osman Digna was 

 besieging Tokar, and Valentine 

 Baker, with a force of 4,000 men, 

 was sent to relieve it. On Feb. 4, 

 1884, he was met by the tribesmen 

 and was routed, two -thirds of his 

 men being killed. Tokar then sur- 

 rendered. 



A British force of 4,400 men was 

 then collected from Egypt and 

 India, and under Sir G. Graham 

 was landed at Suakin. On Feb. 29 

 this force faced the Arabs in their 

 camp at El Teb. The latter threw 

 themselves in wild fury against the 

 British square, but after a fierce 

 combat they were decisively beaten. 

 The British casualties were 34 killed 

 and 155 wounded, largely incurred 

 in a charge made by the 10th and 

 19th Hussars. 



Eltham. Parish of Kent, in the 

 met. bor. of Woolwich, 7 m. S.E. 

 of London Bridge. Once a market- 

 ing town, it contained a palace, the 

 fine banqueting h a ll of which still 

 remains. Well r--- 

 Hall, an Eliza- 

 bethan mansion, : 

 i s supposed t o | 

 have been occu- 

 pied by Sir , : .,^B 



Thomas More's 

 daughter. Eltham ; JP''/ 

 has many open 

 spaces, including 

 Eltham Common, 

 Eltham Green, 

 Eltham Park, and 

 AveryHill. Dur- 

 ing the Great War 

 Eltham was bomb- 

 ed by enemy air- 

 craft. Pop. 13,450. 



The works and shipyard on the north bank 

 _.. The Armstrong- Whitworth works cover an 

 2 acres, and have a river frontage of 6,100 ft. 



urtesy of Sir W, O. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, 



+, Eltham Palace was built towards 

 the end of the 13th century. It pro- 

 bably owes its origin to Anthony 

 Bee, bishop of Durham, who ap- 

 pears to have lived here from 1297 

 to 1311. At first a fortified manor 

 house, it was subsequently con- 

 verted into a royal residence. Its 

 extant portions, viz. the great hall 

 and part of the old kitchens ad- 

 joining, are fine examples of domes- 

 tic architecture of the reign of Ed- 

 ward IV. The 15th century bridge 

 across the moat, which still re- 

 mains, led by way of a gatehouse to 

 a large court, to the right of which 

 stood the chapel and the royal 



rrtments. The architecture of 

 palace is notable for the fine 

 oriel windows, the open timber 

 roof of the hall, and the gables, 

 with beautifully carved barge 

 boards, of the kitchens. 



Eltham. Township of North 

 Island, New Zealand. It is on 

 the mam line from Wellington to 

 New Plymouth, from which it is 

 distant 36 m. The chief centre 

 of the Taranaki district, it has 

 an extensive dairying industry. 

 Pop. 1,711. 



Eltham, EARL OF. Title borne 

 by the eldest son of the marquess of 

 Cambridge (q.v.). 



El Tineh. Village of Palestine. 

 It lies about 15 m. N. of Beersheba, 

 on the branch rly. of the Lydda- 



Eltham, Kent. Exterior of the 

 Eltham Palace, said to have been 



