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ENOCH 



Ennel. Lough or lake in the S. 

 of co. Westmeath, Ireland. It is 

 about 5 m. long and 2 m. broad, is 

 drained by the Brosna river, and 

 has several wooded islets. 



Ennerdale. Lake in the W. of 

 Cumberland, England. From it 

 Whitehaven draws its water sup- 

 ply ; it is 3 m. long and m. broad. 

 Ennis. Urban dist. and county 

 town of eo. Clare, Ireland. It stands 

 on the Fergus river, 25 m. N.W. of 

 Limerick, on the G.S. & W. and 

 West Clare Rlys. Here are the 

 Roman Catholic pro-cathedral and 

 college of the diocese of Killaloe, 

 and the ruins of a Franciscan 

 abbey. It has a statute of O' Connell 

 and in the neighbourhood are the 

 ruins of Clare Abbey. There are 

 large flour mills and breweries, and 

 timber and grain are exported 

 through Clare Castle, its port. 

 Market day. Sat. Pop. 5,472. 



Enniscorthy, Market town 

 and urb. dist. of Wexford, Ireland. 

 It stnnds on the Slaney, 77 m. S. of 

 DuL.ni by the Dublin and S.E. Rly. 

 The chief building is the castle, 

 built by the Norman conquerors 

 in the 12th century. The town is an 

 important agricultural centre, hav- 

 ing fairs and markets, while there 

 is some shipping on the river. 

 There are other industries, includ- 

 ing brewing, distilling, and tanning. 

 Near by is Vinegar Hill (q.v.). Made 

 a municipality about 1610, Ennis 

 corthy was represented in the Irish 

 Parliament until 1800. Market 

 days, Sat. and Thurs. Pop. 5,500. 

 Enniskillen OR INNISKILLING. 

 Market town and co. town of 

 Fermanagh, Ire- 

 land. It stands 

 on an island in 

 the river between 

 the upper and 

 lower loughs 

 Erne, and has 

 suburbs on either 

 side, with which 

 t is connected 



Enniskillen arms 



by bridges. It is a station on the 

 G.N. of Ireland 

 Rly., 116m. N.W. 

 of Dublin. There 

 are some small 

 manufactures and 

 a fair trade in agri- 

 cultural produce, 

 while steamers go 

 alone the river. 

 Enniskillen be- 

 came a munici- 

 pality about 1 600. 

 and was repre- 

 sented in the Irish 

 Parliament. From 

 1800 to 1885 it 

 sent a member to 

 the parliament of 

 the United King- 

 dom. It is chiefly 



famous, however, as a Prote tant 

 stronghold in the time of William 

 III, and as giving its name to two 

 regiments of the British army, fusi- 

 liers and dragoons. Market days, 

 Tues. and Thurs. Pop. 4,850. 



Enniskillen, EARL OF. Irish title 

 borne since 1789 by the family of 

 Cole. In 1760 John' Cole, an Irish 

 M.P., was made a baron, and his 

 son William, the 2nd baron, was 

 made a viscount and an earl, both 

 in the peerage of Ireland. The 2nd 

 earl was made a British peer as 

 Baron Grinstead in 1815, and from 

 him the present earl is descended. 

 William Willoughby Cole, the 3rd 

 earl (1807-86), made a fine col- 

 lection of fossil fishes, now in the 

 British Museum. Florence Court, 

 Enniskillen, is the earl's chief seat, 

 and his eldest son is known as 

 Viscount Cole. 



Ennius, QTJINTUS (239-169 B.C.). 

 Earliest of the great Roman poets. 

 Born at Rudiae, in Calabria, he 

 was not a full Roman citizen, ac- 

 quiring that privilege at a later 

 date. While serving in the Roman 

 army in Sardinia, he attracted the 

 notice of the elder Cato, who took 

 him to Rome, where his knowledge 

 of Greek and literary acquirements 

 procured him admission to the 

 Seipionic circle. His works em- 

 braced a wide variety of subjects, 

 but it was as the author of some 

 twenty tragedies and of the An- 

 nales, an epic of Roman history 

 in which, for the first time, the Latin 

 language was moulded to the Greek 

 hexameter that he achieved im- 

 mortality. Only fragments of his 

 works survive, chiefly in the form 

 of quotations in later writers, 

 especially Cicero. His reputation as 

 a poet stood very high, some 

 ancient critics regarding him as the 

 equal even of Virgil. His versifica- 

 tion, though possessing a certain 

 rugged dignity, is harsh compared 

 with the finish which Latin poetry 

 attained in the hands of Horace 

 and Virgil. 



Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ireland. View of the town 



and quays on the river connecting the upper and 



lower loughs Erne 



Enns. Town and river of Aus- 

 tria. The town, which is 11 m. from 

 Linz, stands just where the river 

 falls into the Danube. An old 



ice, it grew up around a castle 



lilt about 900. It became a free 

 city, and was at one time a prosper- 

 ous commercial place. Its chief 

 buildings are the town hall, the 

 castle, built in the 18th century, 

 and a Gothic church. It was at one 

 time fortified, and it is said that the 

 money for the fortifications came 

 from the ransom of Richard I. Near 

 it is the monastery of S. Florian 

 (q.v.). The river rises in the moun- 

 tains near Radstatt and flows 

 through Styria, passing through 

 lovely mountainous scenery. Its 

 course is east and then north. Its 

 chief tributaries are the Salza and 

 Steyer ; its length is about 150 m. 



Enoch. Name of four men in the 

 O.T. They are a son of Cain, a 

 grandson of Abraham, a son of 

 Reuben, and a son of Jared. The 

 last, the father of Methusaieh, is 

 recorded to have lived 365 years, 

 and to have been translated with- 

 out dying. He is described as being 

 the seventh from Adam, and the 

 Epistle of Jude (verse 14) quotes a 

 prophecy ascribed to him. See 

 Enoch, The Book of. 



Enoch, THE BOOK or. One of the 

 non-canonical O.T. Apocrypha or 

 Pseudepigrapha (i.e. works written 

 under an assumed name), written 

 originally partly in Aramaic and 

 partly in Hebrew. It incorporates 

 fragments of the Book of Noah. 

 The work is not a unity in any 

 sense, and ranges from about 200 

 B.C. to A.D. 64. It has therefore 

 been described as a library rather 

 than a single book. In the words of 

 Dr. Charles (Religious Develop- 

 ment Between the Old and the New 

 Testaments), " it touches upon 

 every subject that could have 

 arisen in the ancient schools of the 

 prophets." These subjects include 

 the origin of evil, the millennium, 

 the Messiah, the future life, and 

 even the Hebrew calendar. The 

 book seems to have had a consid- 

 erable influence on N.T. theology. 

 See Apocrypha. 



Enoch, BOOK OF THE SMCRETS 

 OF. A book belonging to the same 

 category as the Book of Enoch. 

 Dr. Charles describes this book as 

 2 Enoch and the Book of Enoch 

 as 1 Enoch. The work, preserved 

 only in Slavonic, seems to have 

 been written by a Hellenistic Jew 

 in Egypt at about the beginning of 

 the Christian era. It is related in 

 some way to a Hebrew book re- 

 ferred to in Jewish literature (in 

 the Zohar) as "the book of Enoch " 

 and the " Book of the Secrets of 

 Enoch." The author is orthodox, 

 but at the same time so broad- 



