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EGG, one of the weftern idands of Scotland, about 
ten miles in circumference : four miles fouth of the idand 
of Sky. 
EGG, a town of Norway : forty-eight miles eaft-north- 
eaft of Drontheim. 
EGG, a town of the American States, in Gloucefter 
county, New Jerfey, on Great Egg Harbour; famous 
for the exportation of pine and cedar. 
EGG-BIRD, f. A bird of the Pacific Ocean.—Under 
the low trees fat infinite numbers of a new fpecies of tern 
©r egg-bird. Cook and King's Voyage. 
EGG HARBOUR (Great), a bay of the American 
States, in the date of Jerfey, on the ead coaft. Lat. 39. 
so. N. Ion. 74.30. W. Greenwich. 
EGG HARBOUR (Little), a bay of the American 
States, in the date of Jerfey, on the ead coad. Lat. 39. 
32. N. Ion. 74. 23. W. Greenwich. 
EGG HARBOUR RIVER (Great, and Little). Great 
Egg Harbour rifes between Glouceder and Cumberland 
counties, in New Jerfey. After running ead-fouth-ead 
a few miles, it becomes the divifional line between Cape 
May and Glouceder counties, and falls into the bay of 
its own name. The inlet from the Atlantic Ocean lies 
in lat. 39. 22. The river abounds with rock-fifh, perch, 
oyders, &c. which find a ready market at Philadelphia. 
This river is navigable twenty miles for veflels of 200 tons. 
Little Egg Harbour inlet, lies about feventeen miles 
north-ead of Great Egg Harbour inlet. It receives Mu. 
liens river, which rifes in Glouceder and Burlington 
counties, and forms part of the divifional line a few miles 
from the bay. It is navigable twenty miles for veirels of 
fixty tons. The townfhip of Little Egg Harbour, in Bur- 
lingtoncounty,confidsofabout 23,oooacres; and the com¬ 
part part of the townfiiip is called Clam Town , where there 
is a meeting-houfe for friends, and about a dozen houfes. 
It has a fmall trade to the Wed Indies. During the Ame¬ 
rican war, captains Fergufon and Collins burnt a num¬ 
ber of privateers and other vellels in Little Egg Harbour, 
and dedroyed the place. 
EGG ISLAND, a fmall idand of the American States, 
on the north-ead fide of Delaware-bay, in Cumberland 
county. 
EGG PLANT, f in botany. See Solanum. 
EG'GE, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Danube, between Dillingen and Hochdet. 
EG'GENBERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria : three miles wed-north-wed of Graz. 
EGGENFEL'DEN, a town of Germany, in Lower 
Bavaria : twelve miles fouth-fouth-ead of Dingelfingen. 
EG'GERON, a town of Egypt; feven miles fouth of 
Atfieh. 
EG'IIAM, a pleafant town in the county of Surrey, 
feated.on the Thames, eighteen miles from London, on 
the great wedern road. Here is a neat alms-houfe, founded 
in 1706, by Mr. Henry Strode, merchant, of London, for 
fix men and fix women, who mud be fixty years of age, 
and have been paridtioners of Egham twenty years, with¬ 
out having received any parochial relief. The center of 
this building is a houfe for a fchool-mader, amply en¬ 
dowed, for the education of twenty poor boys of Egham. 
Sir John Denham, father of the poet of the fame name, 
and baron of the exchequer in the reigns of James and 
Charles I. alfo founded an alms-houfe here, for fix men 
and fix women. Here is an annual fair, commencing 
May 29, which continues three days. Cooper’s Hill, the 
fubject of a poem by Denham, is fituated near this town, 
on the right of the road from London. 
EGIL'SHA, one of the Orkney idands, about fix miles 
in circumference, a little to the ead of Ronfa. 
EGIN'HART. See Aiginhard. 
EGIS'THUS, king of Argos, the fon of Thyedes by 
his daughter Pelopea. Thyedes, being at variance with 
bis brother Atreus, was told by the oracle, that lus wrongs 
could be revenged only by a fon born of himfelf and his 
daughter. To avoid fuch an inced, Pelopea had been 
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confecrated to the fervice of Minerva by her father, who 
fome time after met her in a wood, and ravifhed her, with¬ 
out knowing who die was. Pelopea kept the fword of 
her ravidier, an 1 finding it .to be her father’s, expofed 
the child die had brought forth. The child was pre- 
ferved, and when grown up, prefented with the fword of 
his mother’s ravidier. Pelopea,, foon after this melan¬ 
choly adventure, had married her uncle Atreus, who re¬ 
ceived into his houfe her natural fon. As Thyedes had 
debauched the firft wife of Atreus, Atreus fent Egidluis 
to put him to death ; but Thyedes, knowing the afiadin’s 
fword, difeovered he was his own fon, and, fully to re¬ 
venge his wrongs, fent him back to murder Atreus. 
After this murder Thyeftes afeended the throne, and ba- 
nidied Agamemnon and Menelaus, the fons, or as others 
fay, the grandfons of Atreus. Thefe children were taken 
care of by (Eneus, king of Tttolia. By their marriage 
with the daughters of Tyndarus, king of Sparta, they 
were impowered to recover the kingdom of Argos, in 
which Agamemnon fucceeded, while Menelaus reigned 
in his father-in-law’s place. Egidluis had been reconciled 
to the fons of Atreus; and when they went to the Tro¬ 
jan war, he was left guardian of Agamemnon’s kingdoms, 
and of his wife Glytemnedra. Egidhus fell in love with 
Clytemnedra, and lived with her. On Agamemnon’s re¬ 
turn, thefe two adulterers murdered him, and, by a pub¬ 
lic marriage, drengthened themfelves on the throne of 
Argos. Oredes, Agamemnon’s fon, would have fliared 
his father’s fate, had not his fider Elertra privately fent 
him to his uncle Strophius, king of Phocis, where he~ 
contrarted the mod intimate frienddiip with his con fin 
Pylades. Some time after, Oredes came to Mycenae, the 
refidence.of Egidhus, and refolved to punifii the mur¬ 
derers of his father, in conjunction with Elertra, who 
lived in difguife in the tyrant’s family. To etfert this 
more effertually, Elertra publicly declared that her bro¬ 
ther Oredes was dead ; upon which Egidhus and Cly¬ 
temnedra went to the temple of Apollo, to return thanks 
to the god for his death. Oredes, who had fecretly 
concealed himfelf in the temple, attacked them, and put 
them both to death, after a reign of feven years. They 
were buried without the city walls. Ovid, de Rem. Am. 161. 
/Elian. AEJ'chyl. Homer .—Pompey ufed to call Julius Cae- 
far Egidhus, on account of his adultery with his wife 
Mutia, whom he repudiated after die had born him three 
children. 
EGIST'MENT, f. a law term. The agidment, the 
compofition for feeding cattle in the king’s fored ; cattle 
fed at a certain rate. Scott. 
E'GLAH, [Heb. an heifer.] The name of a woman. 
E'GLAIM, [Heb. drops of the fea.] A city of Moab. 
Ifaiah, xv. 8. 
E'GLANTiNE,/. \_ejglantier, Fr.] A fpecies of rofe ; 
fweet-briar. See Rosa. 
O’er-canopied with lufeious woodbine, 
With fvveet mufk-rofes, and with eglantine. Shakcfpeare. 
E'GLANTINE (P. F. N. Fabrc d’), a dramatic writer, 
and inventor of the new French calendar, born at Cha- 
Ions in Champaigne. Fie was early educated by his pa¬ 
rents, in polite literature and natural philofophy. From 
his youth he felt an invincible inclination to court the 
mufes, which he evinced in his juvenile publication, in- 
titled Les Etrcnncs da Parnajfe. He wrote a comedy in 
three arts, in verfe, called Le Collateral , ou VAmour ct l'In¬ 
terest, which was reprefented at the Theatre de Monfieur , 
but was not fuccefsful. The revolution did not imme¬ 
diately confer on Fabre either wealth or didinrtion ; he 
continued his literary labours, and produced another co¬ 
medy called Philinte, which was alfo in verfe, and in 
five arts. This piece, the principal chararter of which 
is taken from Moliere, and intended as a continuation of 
the Mifanthrope, is much praifed. La Harpe commends 
it as a judicious and fpirited work. The plot is lerious, 
and where tire author has deviated from his model, he 
has 
