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of Anjou, waiting long for an answer to their 

 suits, but in the end she announced her inten- 

 tion to live and die a virgin queen. 



Mary, Queen of Scots. With this fascinating 

 princess were connected many of the political 

 events of Elizabeth's reign (see MARY STUART). 

 Fleeing to England to seek the protection of 

 Elizabeth, she was there imprisoned, and in 

 1587 was executed because of her supposed 

 share in several Catholic plots. Elizabeth con- 

 sented reluctantly to the death of her cousin 

 and to the stern measures against Catholics 

 which followed, but her reluctance did not save 

 her from the wrath of the strongest Catholic 

 sovereign of Europe Philip of Spain, her for- 

 mer suitor. He determined to punish England, 

 and dispatched the great Armada (which see), 

 but the storms of the Channel combined with 

 the superior seamanship of the British to de- 

 stroy the great enemy fleet, and the result was 

 new glory to England and its queen. 



Character. Elizabeth was ludicrously vain, 

 and had a violent temper which she did not 

 hesitate to show by swearing, striking her cour- 

 tiers, or spitting at them. In the diplomacy of 

 the day, which consisted largely of intrigue- and 

 double-dealing, she was a master, winning by 

 her ready falsehoods the doubtful praise, "She 

 lived and lied for her country." But one thing 

 counterbalanced all these undoubted faults in 

 the eyes of her subjects Her love for England. 

 This was genuine, and it was so strong that she 

 was willing to sacrifice even her own prefer- 

 ences to it. A.MC c. 



ELIZABETH, N. J., the county seat of 

 Union County, two miles west of Newark Bay, 

 four miles southwest of Newark and twelve 

 miles southwest of New York City. It is 

 served by the Central of New Jersey, the Penn- 

 sylvania and the Lehigh Valley railroads and 

 by electric interurban lines, and has steamboat 

 connection with New York City. In 1910 the 

 population was 73,409; in 1916 a Federal esti- 

 mate reported 86,690. The area of the city 

 exceeds nine square miles. 



Elizabeth is an old town and contains many 

 places of historical interest; a number of 

 colonial buildings are still standing. The streets 

 are wide, well paved and shaded. The city has 

 many attractive suburban homes of New York 

 business men, and contains several parks, the 

 county courthouse, city hall, public library, an 

 orphan asylum and several hospitals Elizabeth 

 Port, a part of the city, is situated on Staten 

 Island Sound and is an important reshipping 

 point for iron and anthracite coal from the 



mines of Pennsylvania. The city has a large 

 sewing-machine factory, shipbuilding plants, 

 foundries, oil refineries, leather and rubber 

 works, and manufactories of wire and cable, 

 chemicals, paints, tools, electromotors, castings, 

 machinery, hardware and tools. In favorable 

 years the total value of factory products is 

 over $29,000,000. 



Elizabethtown, as it was first called, was 

 settled in 1664 by a company from Long Island, 

 and was the capital of the colony from 1755 to 

 1757. It was the early home of both Alexander 

 Hamilton and Aaron Burr. During the War 

 of Independence it was partially destroyed. 

 Princeton University was founded at Elizabeth 

 in 1746 as the College of New Jersey. M.W. 



ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., a port of entry 

 and the county seat of Pasquotank County, 

 situated in the extreme northeastern part of 

 the state, fifty-three miles south of Norfolk, 

 Va., with which it is connected by the Norfolk 

 Southern Railroad. Steamboats ply between 

 the two cities through the Dismal Swamp Canal 

 and the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. In 

 1910 the population was 8,412; in 1916 it was 

 9,710. 



Elizabeth City is the seat of a state normal 

 school for negroes and of the Atlantic Col- 

 legiate Institute, and has a United States cus- 

 tomhouse. The trucking interests are exten- 

 sive, and the city has a good harbor and a 

 large domestic trade in cotton, lumber, fish and 

 oysters. It has shipbuilding yards, cotton and 

 hosiery mills, cotton gins, machine shops, iron 

 works, lumber mills, and manufactories of car- 

 riages and wagons, barrels and baskets. It was 

 settled and incorporated in 1793. 



ELK, a splendid game animal of the deer 

 family which, because of the ambition of hunt- 

 ers, is rapidly becoming extinct. There are two 

 distinct species, the American and the Euro- 

 pean. 



The American Elk, so named by early set- 

 tlers, is more properly known by the Indian 

 name wapiti, for its resemblance to European 

 species, from which the name elk originated, is 

 not close. Although it is rarely seen, and then 

 chiefly in the Rocky Mountains and other 

 westward ranges, the memory of this noble 

 animal is preserved throughout America. 

 Mountains, lakes, rivers, counties and towns 

 where it was hunted for its teeth, horns, flesh 

 or hide, have been named in its honor. 



'It is a strong-limbed, sleek-coated creature, 

 standing about five feet four inches high at 

 the shoulder, sometimes weighing 1,000 pounds. 



