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ELINGUA'TION, f. [Lat.l The aft of cutting out 
the tongue. 
F.'LINS, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Brac- 
3 aw : twenty-fix miles north-eaft of Braclaw. 
ELJOBE'LE, a town of Arabia,-in the country of 
Yemen : twenty-eight miles fouth of Abu-Arifch. 
ELIOCAR'MOS, f in botany. SeeO rn ithog alum, 
ELIOE'NAI, [Heb. my eyes are towards him.] A 
man’s name. 
ELI'OT (John), a pious divine of the feventeenth 
century, and not undefervedly called the apoftle of the 
North-American Indians, was born in England, in 1604 ; 
but we are not informed of the place of his birth. He 
appears to have been educated in the univerfity of Cam¬ 
bridge ; after which he engaged in the employment of an 
ulher to a fchool. Having connefted himfelf, however, 
'with the puritan party, he became involved in the feve- 
jities exercifed towards them during the reign of 
Charles I. and determined, like many others, to remove 
to America. This refolution he put in praftice in 1631 ; 
and, arriving at New England, became a member of the 
congregational church at Bolton. From hence, in 1632, he 
removed toRoxbury, where he was ordained minifter <ind 
fpent tire greateft part of his life. Mr. Elioi’sglory arifes 
from the difinterefted zeal and indefatigable labours by 
which he endeavoured to introduce the advantages of 
civilization and cliriftian knowledge into the barbarous In¬ 
dian tribes. To this work he began to devote a confide- 
rable part of bis time in 164.6, having been encouraged to 
the undertaking by many vvell-wilhers to the interefts of 
humanity and virtue, and particularly by his brethren in 
the miniltry, who engaged to fupply his place in the church 
at Roxbury whenever he fliould be ablent among the In¬ 
dians. The firft ftep he took was to learn their language, 
and reduce it to the form of a grammar, which he after¬ 
wards pu'olifiied. Having overcome this difficulty, he paid 
his firft vifit toan aflembly of Indians, to whom he preached 
in their native tongue, inthe yearabove mentioned. The 
iuccefs which lie met witli encouraged him to perfevere in 
his truly philanthropic undertaking during the remainder 
of his life ; dividing his time between the Indians, and 
his flock at Roxbury, and not dilheartened by the incre¬ 
dible hardlhips to which he was obliged to fubmit, the ob- 
ftacles which he met with in the prejudices, fufpicions, 
and brutal manners, of the favages, and the terrible dangers 
to which he was oftenexpofed. His zeal and diligence like- 
wife prompted him to engage in the arduous talk of translat¬ 
ing the whole Bible into the Indian language. When this 
work was completed, it was printed for the firft time at 
Cambridgein New England, in 1664,and,a little timeafter 
Mr. Eliot’s-death, a lecond time, with the correlations of 
Mr. Cotton, minifter of Plymouth, who was h fellow-la¬ 
bourer in the Indian million. Mr. Eliot tranflated into 
the fame tongue leveral Englifti treatifes in practical di¬ 
vinity, catechifms, grammars, &c. By his influence many 
of the wandering Indian tribes were collected into regular 
focieties, and formed into congregations, which were in- 
limited by him, and others who joined him in the work, 
in the manner heft fuited to their capacities'; and fchools 
were appointed, in which great numbers foon became pro¬ 
ficients in reading and writing, and feveral wehe qualified 
for a more liberal education, which they afterwards re¬ 
ceived. To aid and encourage thefe meafures for human, 
iling and converting the Indians, large contributions were 
made in England, with which eftates were purchafed, and 
placed in the hands of truftees, who were afterwards incor¬ 
porated by charter, under the name of The Society for 
the Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts. Mr. 
Eliot’s miilionary labours were continued as long as his 
. bodily ftrength permitted; and, even when lie was in the 
eighty-fourth year of his age, we are informed, that he was 
cccafionally engaged in preaching to his Indian converts, 
lie died at Roxbury in 1690, when he had nearly.attained 
to the advanced period of eighty-fix years. 
ELPOTT (Alexander), Ion of fir Gilbert Eliott, of 
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Stobbs, and brother of lord Heathfield, was one of the 
Englifti council at Bengal, under Mr. Haftings, and was 
allowed to polfefs the moft elevated fpiric that ever dig¬ 
nified human nature. At that period, the French intrigues 
at the court of Poonah, added to their hopes of detach¬ 
ing the aifeftion of the Berar Rajah from the Englifti, 
endangered the exiftence of the Englilh empire in the 
Eaft. To preferve the alliance of that prince, Mr. 
Haftings fixed on Mr. Eliott to be refidentat the court of 
Nagpour. Another accident happened after he had left 
Bengal for that purpofe, which caufed him to redouble- 
his fpeed : M. Chevalier, the French governor of Chan- 
dernagore, had efcaped from thence, and was purfuing 
the fame route before him. M. Chevalier was a perfon 
of firft-rate abilities, and as warm in the intereft of 
France as Mr. Eliott was in that of England. He alfo 
was on his way to Nagpour; and from thence intended 
to return to France, where his great knowledge of the 
politics of India would have enabled his court to form 
plans tlie moft pernicious to the fafety of our Indian em¬ 
pire. Mr. Eliott had fet out in the rainy feafon, without 
any profpect of accommodations neceifary to his preca¬ 
rious ftate of health, labouring under a diforder peculiar 
to the eaft, originating in bilious obftruftions, the cure of 
which depended on the quantity of mercury. I11 thofe 
circumftances, he heard that M. Chevalier was at no 
great diftance before him ; he pulhed on by forced jour¬ 
neys unfortunately, juft as he had his cbace in view, 
his progrefs was retarded by a hidden overflow of one 
of the great branches of the Cattack river, Regardlefs 
of his health, or the dangerous medicines he had taken, 
he plunged into the rapid ftream, followed by a few of 
his attendants and fepoys, and found M. Chevalier before 
him at the capital Cattack. He claimed his perfon as an 
Englifti priloner with fuch powerful eloquence, that the 
rajah iurrendered him. Mr. Eliott then engaged the 
paroles of M. Chevalier and his companion M. Mom 
neron, to return and furrender themfelv-es at Calcutta, to 
the governor-general, which they did in the moft honour¬ 
able manner. Mr. Eliott purfued his journey, and, in a 
few days, in October, 1778, at a fmall caravanfera, fell, 
devoted to genuine patriotifm and fidelity to the interefts 
cf his country. The Mahrattas have fince built round 
it a town ; and, ftill farther to preferve his memory, 
named it, in honour of him, Eliott-gunge , or Eliott’s town; 
Mr. Haftings caufed a monument to be erefted over his 
grave : he experienced an affliction equal to his lofs ; 
and, in his palfage to England, compofed an Elegy ex- 
prellive of it, in imitation of Horace, ode xvi. book ii. 
equally a proof of his affeffion, as of his elegant turn for 
compofitions of this nature. It has been twice reprinted.- 
ELl'OTT (George Augnftus, lord Heathfield), a mili¬ 
tary officer of Angular merit, the youngeft fon of fir Gil¬ 
bert Eliottof Stobbs, in Roxburgfhire, Scotland. He.was 
born about 1718; and after receiving the rudiments cf 
education under a domeftic tutor, was fent at an early age 
to the univerfity of Leyden, where he improved himfeif 
inclaffical learning, and acquired a knowledge of the French 
and German languages. As he was deftined to a military 
life, his father properly refolved to gi ve him a profeffional 
courfe of inftruftion. At the royal military fchool of La 
Fere, in Picardy, he made himfelf mafter of the theory of 
taffies, and of fortification and engineering in all their 
branches ; and then proceeding to the praffice of the art, 
he made a tour through thofe parts of t he continent which, 
afforded the moft inftruftion, and concluded with ferving 
forne time as a volunteer in the Pruflianarmy. Returning 
to Scotland, he was entered as a volunteer in the 23d re¬ 
giment of foot, then lying at, Edinburgh. He afterwards 
entered into the aTtillery corps at Woolwich; and at length, 
fully accontplilhed in dilcipline of various kinds, was pre- 
fented by his uncle, colonel Eliott, with an adjutant’s 
commiflion in the fecond troop of horfe grenadiers. He 
diligently employed himfelf in perfecting the difeipline of 
is troop, with which he went to Germany in, the war 
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