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ED'DY,/. [eb, backward, again, and ea, water, Sax.] 
The vvater that by fome reperqu(lion, or oppofite wind, 
runs contrary to the main dream.—My praifes are as a 
bulrufh upon a dream : if they (ink not, ’tis becaufe they 
are borne up by the drength of the current, which fup- 
ports their lightnefs ;• but they are carried round again, 
and return on the eddy where they fird: began. Drydeii .— 
Whirlpool ; circular motion : 
So, where our wide Numidian wades extend, 
Sadden th’ impetuous hurricanes defcend, 
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies- play, 
Tear up the fands, and fweep whole plains away. Addifon. 
ED'DY, adj. Whirling; moving circularly: 
And chaff with eddy winds is whirl’d around, 
And dancing leaves are lifted from the ground. Drydcn. 
ED'DYSTONE, an inhibited rock, being the elevated 
part of a chain of rocks, about five leagues to the fouth 
from the port of Plymouth, and about three leagues or 
iomewhat more from the Ram Head, well known to fea- 
men who navigate the EngliOt Channel. They lie nearly 
in the fairway from the Start to the Lizard,' and are there¬ 
fore of the utmod danger to mariners. Hence it is that 
on the Eddy done rock a light-houfe lias been erected, to 
ferve as a beacon or fignal to avoid the danger, as thefe 
rocks are covered with the dood tide, but come dry at 
the ebb. The drd light-boufe was eredted of wood, in 
1696, and redded many violent dorms, but was blown 
down on the 27th of November, 1703; in which the pro¬ 
jector, Mr. Winftanley, who then happened to be repair¬ 
ing it, and all his attendants, periflied. The corporation 
ot the Trinity-hou.fe afterwards eredted another in 1709,. 
and to fupport the expence laid a duty on all velfels 
palling it. This alto was conftrudted of wood, and was 
burnt down m 1755. The very able and ingenious engi¬ 
neer, Mr. John Smeaton, was then employed, to eredt 
the light-houfe of folid done, granite if pofiible ; and 
after four years inceffunt labour and application, at fuch 
times as the feafons and weather would permit, the pre- 
fent celebrated drudture was completed, and again light¬ 
ed up on the 16th of Odtober, 1759; ever fince which 
time it lias withdood the violent attacks of the mod 
tempeduous,hurricanes, equal to any part of the'folid 
rock itfelf. 
The building,* as it is now condrudfed, confids of four 
rooms, one over the othep, and at the top a gallery and 
lantern. The done floors ,are flat above, but concave 
beneath ; and are kept from pre fling' againft the Tides of 
the building by a chain let into the walls. Portland 
done and granite are united together by a Arong cement, 
and let into horizontal deps by'dovetails .on the fouth- 
wed. The ingenious architect difeovered that Portland 
Hone was likely to be injured by a marine animal ; and 
as the working of granite was very expenlive and labo¬ 
rious, the external part only was condrutted with this, 
and the internal part with the other. To form a drong 
and broad bafe, and a drong bulk of matter to refid the 
waves, the foundation is one entire folid mafs of /tones, 
to the height of thirty-five feet; engrafted into each 
other, and united by every means of additional drength. 
It is nearly eighty feet in height. 
About a quarter of a mile from the light-houfe to the 
north-ead, there is a continuation ot this rock under wa¬ 
ter, which only (hews itfelf at the low ebbs of a high 
lip ring tide, and then only of the fize of a butt. There 
are tea fathomsall round it, within a fliip’s length. Thefe 
rocks received their name from the great variety of con¬ 
trary currents or fets of the tide which are found to pre¬ 
vail near them. From their dtuation in refpedt to the 
Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Bifcay, they are expofed 
t» the fwells of both, from all the fbuth-weftern points 
of the compafs; and all the he^vy Teas which roll in from 
{hence, come immediately and uninterruptedly upon thefe 
rocks, and there break with inconceivable fury. It is 
alfo remarkable, that a ground fwell will fomctimSs meet 
the dope of the rocks, and break upon them frightfully, 
even when the furface of the fea is perfectly fmooth, and 
without a fingie breeze; and this obdruCtion, at thofe 
times, is fo great as to impede and put a dop to every 
thing which may be carrying on upon the rock, and to 
prevent landing upon it from a boat, though perfons 
might from thence go to fea in a walnut-fhell, if it had 
capacity enough to keep them afloat. 
The wed fide of the main rock, where it appears fix 
or feven feet above water at the ebb of a high fpring 
tide, is bold and deep ; but it is foul for half a mile off, 
to the fouth-fouth-eafl, and there are feveral other rocks 
which (hew themfelves above water at the ebb. It lies 
from the Ram Head fouth-by-wed, a little welter]y; from 
the Start wed, a little foutherly, about fix leagues; and 
from the Lizard about ead-by-north half north, eleven 
or twelve league's. In the fairway of this .rock is forty 
fathoms, and between it and the Ram Head thirty-five or 
thirty-fix fathoms’; fo that a fhip in coming up Channel 
in the night, i'f die cannot fee the light, mud keep with¬ 
out the depth of forty fathoms, as thirty-five fathoms is 
a fure mark for being within it. But, after palling the 
Lizard up Channel, drips diould be-Careful to keep off 
from the French (liore, otherwife they may fall in with 
the Caflcets and the lflands. The latitude of the Eddy- 
done is 50. 8. N. and longitude 4. 24. W. and it has high 
water at fpring tides at half pad five o’clock. Generally 
fpeaking, the flood tide fets within the Eddydone, from 
the Ram Head to the Start, in the direction of ead-foulh- 
ead, and ebbs to the wed-north-wed. 
ED'DYSTONE, a rock on the coaft of Patagonia, in 
South America, not far from land, in latitude about 48. 
30. S. and longitude 64. 56. W. 
' ED'DYSTONE, a rock on the north coaft off the en¬ 
trance to Port Egmopt in Falkland’s lflands, and to Falk¬ 
land Sound front tire north, which divides the two prin-. 
cipal i(lands fo called. This rock is about five miles to 
the north-by-wed from Cape Dolphin. 
ED'DYSTONE, a rock fituated about a league to the 
eafl of another, called the Swilly Rock, near the foutb-ealt 
coad of New Holland. Lat.43.53-S. Ion. 147. 9. E. 
EDE'CHI A, f. in botany. See Laugeria. 
E'DELBACH, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auflria: fix miles ead-fouth-ead of Bavarian Waid- 
hoven. 
E'DELSTEIN, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neiffe : five miles fouth of Ziegenthals. 
ED'ELINCK (Gerard), a celebrated engraver, born 
at Antwerp, in 1641. He acquired the principles of his 
art in that city, and went to exercife it at Paris, whither 
the munificence of Louis XIV. attradled men of talents 
in every walk. He was chofen to engrave the Holy Fa¬ 
mily of Raphael, and Alexander vifhing the Family of 
Darius by Le Brun, in both which pieces he acquired the 
admiration of connoiffeurs, by the clearnefs, brilliancy, 
and harmony, of his drokes. His print of Le "Brun’s fa¬ 
mous Magdalen was alfo a mader-piece ; and his heads of 
a number of the mod illuflrious perfons of the age, are 
in the highefl efleem. He had apartments in the Gobe¬ 
lins, with the title of engraver to the king, and counfellor 
of the academy of painting. He died in 1707 . 
EDEMATO'SE, adj. [01%, Gr.] Swelling; full 
of humours; commonly w r ritten oedematous. —A ierofity 
obflrudting the glands may be watery, edematofe, and 
fchirrous, according to the vifeofity of the humour. 
Arbuthnot. 
E'DEN, the name of a city, fituated, as is fuppofed, 
in Mefopotamia; near which was the garden where our 
fird parents dwelt previous to their tranfgreflion. Com¬ 
pare Gen. ii. 8. zKings, xix. 12. and Ezek. xxvii. 23. Some 
have fuppofed Eden to be the name of the garden itfelf, 
but it feems without foundation; for, notwithstanding 
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