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infolence, pride, and egregious contempt of all good order, 
are the word. Hooker. 
And hence th 'egregious wizzard (hall foredoom 
The fate of Louis and the fall of Rome. Pope-. 
EGRE'GIOUSLY, adv. Eminently; fliamefuliy.— 
He difcovered that, befides the extravagance of every ar¬ 
ticle, he had been egrcgioufly cheated. Arbuthnot. 
EGREGOR'SIS, f. [from eygyyogea, Gr. to watch.] 
An uneafy watchfulnefs; a morbid want of deep. 
E'GREMON Y, an ancient town in the county of Cum¬ 
berland, fituate on the banks of a fmall river that falls 
into the fea, near the promontory of St. Bees. It was 
formerly a borough, and lent a member to parliament in 
the reign of Edward I. but never after; for, the burghers 
becoming unwilling to pay the burgefies their wages, they, 
to free tbemfelvesfrom t he burden, petitioned the king that 
they might be exempted from that charge. Here are the 
ruins of a cadle finely fituated, with juft as much of it 
p.referved as is convenient for the earl of Egremont to 
hold a court in. Egremont is well watered. Its market, 
which is on Saturdays, is plentifully fupplied with bar¬ 
ley and oats. It has a fair on the 19th of September. 
Its diftance from London is 299 miles. It gives the title 
of earl to the family of Wyndham. 
This place bears the ftrongeft features of antiquity, fe- 
veral of the houfes being piazzaed in front. The remains 
of the cadle is fituated on a remarkable eminence; and 
bears lingular markuof drength. One cannot enter a place 
where fuch veftiges of ancient magnificence are feen, and 
where every objeft drikes the eye with proofs of former 
pomp and power, and of prefent defection, decay, and 
defolation, without various renditions of feeling and re¬ 
flection. A contemplative vilitor is apt to exclaim, How 
fluctuating are the afFairs of man! how changeable are 
all fublunary things! thefe towers fubmit to the ravages 
of time, and this once impregnable fortrefs yields itfelf 
to every alfailant. How are thy honours waded, and thy 
pride brought low ! thy military powers are no more, and 
thy magnificence finks in the dud ! the {houts of victory 
are no longer re-echoed from thy walls, the voice of fefti- 
vity hath forfaken thee! authority and rule are rent from 
thy hands, and thy conquering banners are delivered up 
to the dedroying hand of time, who yields them to the 
darknefs of oblivion ! thy towers are no longer the abode 
of drength, nor thy chambers of fecurity! where the 
haughty hero trod, returning with the fpoils of war, and 
the honours of victory, amidd the acclamations of his 
troops, the lazy afs now flands in his mid-day dream, fha- 
dowing his drowfy eye with heavy ear! tribulation takes 
the feat of hofpitality ; and, where the jocund gueft 
laughed over the fparkling bowl, adders hifs, and owls 
fing the drains of melancholy to the midnight moondiine, 
that deeps upon thy mouldering battlements! 
F.'GREMO'NT, a towndiip of the American States, 
in Berkfliire county, Maflachufetts, incorporated in 1760: 
fifteen miles fouth-wed of Stockbridge, and 145 wed of 
Bodon. 
E'GRESS, f. [ cgrcjfus, Lat.] The power or aft of 
going out of any place ; departure : 
Gates of burning adamant, 
Burr’d over us, prohibit all egrefs. Milton. 
EGRES'SION, f. [ egnjjio, Lat.] The aft of going 
out.—The vad number of troops is exprefled in the 
fvvarms ; the tumultuous manner of ifiuing out of their 
{hips, and the perpetual egrejjion, which feemed without 
end, are imaged in the bees pouring out. Pope. 
E'GRET, f. A w'atcr-fowl of the heron kind. See 
Ardea. 
E'GREVILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Seine and Marne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the didrift of Nemours: three leagues fouth-ead of Ne¬ 
mours. ' 
E'GRIOT, f. [aigret. Fr. perhaps from aigre, four.] 
Vol. VI. No. 350. 
A fpecies of cherry.—The coeur-cherry, which inclineth 
more to white, is fweeter than the red ; but the egriot is 
more four. Bacon. 
EGRISEL'LES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift 
of Sens : feven miles fouth of Sens. 
E'GRITUDE, f. [from ager, Lat. fick.] Sicknefs. 
Not much it fed. 
EGUIL'LES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a canton, in 
the didrift of Aix : two leagues north-wed of Aix. 
EGUIMU'HA, or Elgimuha, a town of Africa, in 
the empire of Morocco, at the foot of mount Atlas, near 
which is an iron mine. •* 
E'GUISHEM, a town of France, in tire department of 
the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Colmar: three miles fouth-wed of Colmar. 
E'GULA,yi A fort of fulphur ufed in working woollen 
cloth,'which makes it foft and white. 
EGUREN'DE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift 
of Uflel : four leagues north-ead of Uflel. 
To EGUR'GITATE, v. a. [egurgitarc, Lat.] To emp¬ 
ty or difgorge. 
E'GUZON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre, a-nd chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
^rgenfon : three leagues fouth of Argenton. 
E'GYPT, a country of Africa, celebrated in all ages 
as the fird feat of the fciences, and the fountain from 
whence originally flowed every fpecies of valuable learn¬ 
ing. Its hidory becomes doubly intereding to the Chrif- 
tian and Englith reader, not only from its intimate con- 
neftion with numerous pafiages of the holy feriptures, 
but likewife on account of the recent events which have 
occurred in that didant region. For thefe reafons we 
Audi be, perhaps, more circumdantial in our details of 
this article, than the circumfcribed limits of our plan 
will generally allow. 
Egypt is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean,, 
on the ead by the Red Sea and the idhmus of Suez, on 
the fouth by mountains, which feparale it from Nubia, 
and on the wed by the deferts of Lybia. Its length from 
north to fouth is about 500 miles, its breadth, including 
the greater and lefler Oafis, about 250. Egypt is now di¬ 
vided into Upper and Lower, the former extending in a 
long and narrow valley from Syene to Grand Cairo. Two 
ridges of mountains form the outlines of Upper Egypt, 
running along each fide of the Nile till, reaching Cairo, 
the weflern ridge takes its courfe towards Alexandria, 
the other towards the Red Sea. Beyond thefe moun¬ 
tains, on each fide, are deferts ; between them lies a long 
plain, vvliofe greatefl breadth is not more than nine leagues. 
Down this valley-rolls the Nile. Lower Egypt includes 
all the country between Cairo and the Mediterranean on 
the north and fouth; and Lybia and the iflhmus of Suez 
to the eaft and weft; bounded by fandy deferts, it con¬ 
tains flips of land fertile and well cultivated on the bor¬ 
ders of the river and canals, and in the center, that traft 
or ifland which is called Delta, formed by the branches 
of the Nile. 
Ancient geographers divided Egypt into three parts. 
Upper, Middle, and Lower. The Upper Egvpt w f as 
called by the Greeks Thebais , now Said, or Al Said, which 
extends from Syene to Manfalout; Middle Egypt, called 
by the Greeks Hcptanomis, now Vojlani-, and Lower Egypt, 
the bed part of which was is Delta, now called Bahira 
or Rif. 
Among the famous cities that formerly embellifhed 
Upper Egypt, we may enumerate, on the weflern fide of 
the river, Lycopolis, or the city of the Wolves; Hypfele, 
now called Aboutig ; Aphroditopolis, or the city of Ve¬ 
nus; Ptolemais; Abydus, celebrated for the magnificent 
palace of Memnon; Little Diofpolis, or the city of Jupi¬ 
ter; Tentyra; Latopoiis; Great Apollinopolis, and Ele¬ 
phantine: and on the oppofite fide of the river flood 
4 E Antaeopolisj 
