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the cuftom-houfe language, poffelTes 4,000 tuns of 

 /hipping, a quantity equal to that of the principal 

 port. Some of them are chartered by merchants 

 in other ports and by government. The exports 

 confift chiefly of coal and fome fait. The imports 

 2re timber for building houfes and veflels, flax, flax- 

 feed, aflies, and alfo linen yarn from Bremen and 

 Hamburgh. The induftry of the people is now 

 chiefly exerted upon the manufafture of checks and 

 bed-ticks, partly for Glafgow, but mollly for Lon. 

 don ; and the women are refuming their antient 

 occupation of weaving. 



Easdale, [Arg.S.) an ifland compofed of flate, 

 the manufafture of which employs abort 300 men 

 as quarriers, befides labourt-rs. About five millions' 

 of flates are carried annually to various parts of the 

 kingdom. This little ifland prefents the Angular 

 fpeftacle of a bridge over an arm of the fea, by 

 which it is connected with the main land. — Luing 

 and Seil, two adjacent iflands, but much larger, are 

 eompofed of the fame fubftance with Eafdale. 



Edenberry, [King. 1.) a thriving town, fituated 

 on a branch of the great canal. 



Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is fituated 

 about two miles from the fouth fliore of the Firth 

 of Forth. The city was originally built on the 

 ridge of a hiU in order to enjoy the proteflion of 

 the caftle upon the precipitous wcftern extremity 

 of it. Till about forty years ago the fuburbs were 

 Hot very cxtenfive or populous. But the ereftion 

 of a new town on the north fide of the city, confift- 

 ing of houfes uniformly built of the beft materials, 

 and difpofed in regular fireets and fquares, and alfo 

 of many new ftreets and fquares on the fouth fide, 

 and, indeed, in every direftion, has rendered the 

 antient city of Edinburgh, like that of London, 

 the fmallell part of the mafs of buildings compre- 

 hended under the general name. Along with the 

 improvements in building, the fpirit of commerce, 

 which had (lumbered fince the union of the king- 

 doms, alfo arofe. The merchants of Edinburgh, 

 whofe foreign trade had hitherto been almoft con- 

 fined to Holland and Portugal, fent their vtflels to 

 Peter/burg and other parts of the Baltic, to Ame- 

 rica, and the Wefl;-IndivS. (See Leith.) Tn 

 Edinburgh, as in other large cities, manufaflures 

 are not fo confpicuous as in fmaller places, where 

 they are the chief obje(3.T of attention ; but they 

 are numerous, and fome of them extenfive. 



Egglesham, {Renf. S.) a pleafant village with 

 a Gotten work, and many looms working for the 

 manufaiSlurers of Glafgow and Pafley. 



Eggleton, {York, N. R.) a village on the Tees, 

 near a quarry of good marble. 



Elgin, the capital of the ftiire of Elgin, or 

 Moray, an inland town furrounded by a fertile corn 

 country. The indufl:ry of the women is thrown 

 away in fpinning linen yarn for difl;ant manufac- 

 turers : and a woolen manufafture, formerly carried 

 on to fome extent, and fupported by a Isreed of 

 fine-wooled flieep, has been neglefted, in confe- 

 quence of which the flieep are fupplanted by a race 

 of a larger fpecies. 



Eling, {Hamp. £.) a village at the head of a 

 branch of the fea, called Southampton water, has 

 docks for building veflcls. 



Ely, {Camb. E.) is a fmall epifcopal city, fitu- 

 ated ou a piece of ground, called the Ifle of Ely, 

 becaufe furrounded by marflies. Except a little 

 intcrcourfe with Lynne by the navigation of the 

 Oufe, there is no trade beyond the lupply of the 

 neighbourhood with llrawberries and garden ftufl^. 



Ely, (Fife, V.) a fmall town, with a good tide 

 harbour having i 5 feet water at fpring tides, which 

 frequently afi"oids flieltcr to vefiVls caught in ftorms. 

 There are a few velFcIs belonging to the place cm- 

 ployed in foreign trade ; and lome pretty large vef- 

 lcls are built. The nianufaCtuns are checks and 

 bed-ticks, and a rope-work. Rubies are fometimes 

 found on the fliore. 



Ennis, the capital of the Irifli county of Clare, 

 is fituated on the River Fergus, which carries boats 

 up to it, whereby it has a little trade. 



Enniscorthy, (JVcx. /.) atown on the Slaney, 

 which is navigable up to it, has fome manufaftures 

 of coarfe woolen goods, and confiderable iron- " 

 works. 



Enniskillen, (Ferm. /.) a town fituated in an 

 iiland lying in the channel between the upper and 

 lower part of Lough Erne, furrounded by a country 

 occupied by linen-weavers and grafiers. 



Emsey, (Tort, IV. R.) a village near Skipton, 

 with a manufadure of cotton yarn. 



Ertth, {Kent, E.) a village on the Thames, has 

 fome coafting trade in lime, made from chalk, 

 chiefly to London, and fends fom.e even to Hol- 

 land and Flanders. The refufe of the chalk is 

 carried along the fliore as far as Norfolk, to be laid 

 on the ground as a manure. 



Errol, [Perth, S.) a village with a fmall har- 

 bour on the Tay for fhipping the corn of the 

 neighbouring Carfe, and landing coal, lime, &C- 



Eton, (SuJ/'. E.) a village at the head of the na- 

 vigation of the River Adur, has fome trade in load- 

 ing barges with timber for the fliipbuilders at Shore- 

 ham. 



Eve '-HA.V, often contrafled to TLsvi am, (JVorc. E.) 

 a town on the River Avon, which is navigable for 

 barges to it. has a manufacture of llockings. The 

 vale of Evefliam is noted for the goodnefs of its 

 corn. 



Exeter, {Dev. E.) an antient city on the River 

 Ex or Ifli, which carries fmall veflcls up to it, the 

 larger ones being obliged to lie at Topfnam, three 

 miles lower. 1 he ferges, dmggefs, duroys, ker- 

 feys, and everlaftings, made in the adjacent countiy, 

 are bought in a rough flate by the traders of Exe- 

 ter, who dye and finifli them for home confumption 

 and exportation. Italy, France, Germany, Hol- 

 land, Spain, and Portugal, take to the value of 

 ^(^500,000 in thefe articles. And the Eait India 

 Company purchafe long ells, to the amount of 

 about j{^ioo,coo. Befides the veflels engaged in 

 the trade with -the above-mentioned countries, there 

 are others employed in the Newfoundland filhcry, 

 and in the coafting trade. 



