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townfliip of Berks county, in the fame ilate, having 794 

 inhabitants. 



EARTH, col. 19, 1. 12 from bottom, for 7935 /•. 39671,, 

 and for 7882 r. 3941. 



EARTHEN Wake. See Delf and Pottery. 

 EASTBOURNE, 1. 13, after parifh, infert— which con- 

 tains 120 houfes, and 720 inhabitants. 



EAST District, a townfhip of Berks county, in Penn- 

 fylvania, having 805 inhabitants. 

 EASTHAM, 1. 9, ;-. 752. 

 EASTON, col. 2, 1. I, r. 1657. 

 Eastox, 1. 5, r. 1557. 



EAST Port. Add — It contained, in 1810, 151 1 inha- 

 bitants. 



East Town, 1. 2, r. 587. 

 East Whitelaxd, 1. 2, r. 779. 

 EATON, X.pemih. r. 535. 



EATONTOWN, a town of Putnam county, in Georgia, 

 having 73 inhabitants. 



ECHENEIS, 1. 4, add — Or, according to Dr. Shaw, 

 head furnifhed above with a flat, ovate, tranfverfely falcated 

 fliield, gill-membrane fix-rayed, and body without fcales. 



ECLIPTIC, OHiquity of, col. 2, 1. 6 from bottom, 

 add — And he found the obliquity of the ecliptic at the 

 fummer folftice to be 23° 27' 5l",5, and at the winter fol- 

 ilice 23° 27'47",37. The difference he conceives to depend 

 upon refraction. At the obfervation of the fummer folllice 

 in 1 8 1 2 with tlie new mural circle, he found the obliquity of 

 the ecliptic to be 23° 57' 52",25 ; from that of the winter 

 folftice he deduced it 23° 27' 47",35. 



ECTROSIA, in Botany, from sxTOic-;?, an abortion, allud- 

 ing to the number of abortive florets. — Brown Prodr. Nov. 

 Holl. V. I. 185. — A genus of graffes, allied to Eleusixe, 

 (fee that article,) and to Chlorisoi Swartz, all whofe charac- 

 ters require invgftigation. 



EDDINGTON, in Geography, a town of America, in 

 Maine and county of Hancock, having 205 inhabitants. 

 EDDYSTONE,col. 2, 1. i, for 8vo. r. folio. 

 EDEN, in America, 1. 4, add — containing 657 inhabi- 

 tants ; 1. 5, add — containing 224 inhabitants. 



EDESSA. Add — Edefia, at prefent denominated Orfa, 

 after having been the relidence of the Courtneys, counts ot 

 Edeffa, and having been taken by Zenghi or Zingi, was facked 

 by the Moguls in the 1 3th century, and by Tnnur in the 804th 

 year of the Hegira. It is now fubjeft to the grand feignior, 

 and the refidence of a pacha of two tails. It is fituated in 

 a barren country, 67 miles from Bir, and 232 from Diar- 

 bekr. It is furrounded by a ftone wall, and defended by a 

 citadel. The houfes are well built, and the inhabitants, 

 compofed of Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Jews, and Nellorians, 

 are faid to amount to about 20,000 fouls. The chief orna- 

 ments of this city are, a mofque, confecrated to Abraham, 

 and the cathedral of the Armenians, now decayed. 

 EDGARTON, 1. 7, r. 1365. 



EDGCOMB, 1. 3, c. 1288 ; 1. 9, r. 12,423 and 5107. 

 EDGEFIELD. Add — It contains 23,160 inhabitants, 

 of whom 8576 are flaves. 



EDGEMONT, 1. 2, r. 611. 



EDINBURGH, col. 7, 1. 7, add— By the parliamentary 

 return of 181:, the city and burgh of Edinburgh contained 

 7 1 10 houfes, and 102,987 inhabitants; 43,982 being males, , 

 and 59,005 females. The fhire of Edinburgh contained 

 8679 houfes, and 45,620 inhabitants ; 2 1,022 being males, 

 and 24,598 females. 



EDINGTON. In 181 1 the parifti contained 85 houfes, 

 and 417 perfons ; 195 being males, and 222 females. 

 EDISTO, r. Po.xpox. 



EDWARDSIA, m Botany, (fee that article,) is thus 



defined by Mr. Brown, in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. i. Caybc 



five -toothed. Corolla papihonaceous. Legume with four 

 wings and many feeds. 



EFFINGHAM, 1. 4, ;-. 876. Do. 1. 5, r. 1004 ; 'i^l'^ 

 including 762 (laves. 



EGERIA, or Egera, the moft ftrongly fortified city 

 of Mingrclia, on the left bank of the Enguri ; populous and 

 well built, and giving name to the whole country about it. 



EGGS of Flies, 1. 6 from the end, for fonned ;-. found. 



Egg, in ArchiteSure, \.- 4, for plated r. placed. 



Egg Harbour. Add — It contains 1830 inhabitants, 

 22 being flaves. — Alfo, a town of Burhngton county, in 

 New Jerfey, containing 93 1 inhabitants. 



EGHAM, 1. 4, infert — In iSll, the parifh contained 519 

 houfes, and 2823 inhabitants. 



EGREMONT, 1. 3, ,-. 790. 



Eguemoxt, 1. 6, r. 181 1 ; I. 7, r. 329, 1556. 



EGYPT, col. 6, 1. uk. for or r. an. Col. 7, 1. penult, for 

 this /•. the. 



ELAIN, in Chemiflry, a name given by Chevreul to a 

 principle exifting in animal tallows or fats. To obtain it, he 

 diffolved the tallow in alcohol, and fuffered the _y?if,V/-/n (fee 



Stearix) to cryftallize ; the alcohol was then diflilled off, 

 and thus the elain feparated. Braconnot procured it in a 

 different manner. He fubmitted the tallow to preffure be- 

 tween folds of blotting-paper, which abforbed the elaVn. 

 The paper was then foaked in water, and again fubjecled to 

 preffure, by whicii the elai'n was forced out, and could tluis 

 be obtained feparately. 



ElaYn thus obtained has much the appearance of a veget- 

 able oil, and is quite liquid at a temperature of 59°, Some- 

 times it is deftitute of fmell and colour, but moil commonly 

 it poffeffes both, owing probably to the prefence of foreign 

 bodies, from which it is impoffible to free it. Chevreul 

 examined the elai'n from the tallow of the human fubjeft, the 

 flieep, the ox, the hog, the jaguar, and the goofe, all of which 

 differed flightly from one another. Their fpecific gravity 

 varied from .913 to .929 ; thofe of tlie human fubjeCl and 

 ox being lighteif, and that of the goofe the heavieft. Thofe 

 of the flieep, ox, and hog, were nearly colourlefs, and deilitute 

 of fmell ; all the others were more or lefs of a yellow colour, 

 and poffeffed more or lefs odour. The elai'n of the flieep 

 was moft foUible in alcohol, 100 parts of which fluid, fpecific 

 gravity .7952, diffolved 81.17 of ela'i'n at a temperature of 

 167°. The elai'n of the jaguar was leaft foluble, only 

 80.89 P'"'ts of the elai'n being foluble in the fame quantity 

 of alcohol at the fame temperature. See further on this 



fubjeft under Stearix. 



ELAOLITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



ELBERT, 1. 6, ;-. 4291 and 45. 



ELBERTON, 1. 3, add — it contains 58 inhabitants. 



ELBURZ, a range of mountains in Khoraffan in Ferfia, 

 which detaches feveral branches that expand over the 

 country between Afterabad and Mefhed, alio over a great 

 way to the eaft and north of that city, form a junction 

 with the ridge of Banian, and finally fink into the defcrt 

 plains of Khorazan. 



ELECTRICAL Well, dele. 



ELECTRICITY, M«foa/. (See Medical .£/f<?r/Vi/y.) 

 This fubjeft was terminated rather abruptly in the article 

 above referred to, we fliall therefore endeavour to fupply 

 what was there omitted, or has fince been obferved upon the 

 fubjedl. 



The powers of elearicity in removing difeafes were 

 much over-rated by the earlier electricians, as for the niofl 



part 



