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when the fupreme faculties move regularly, the inferior 
paflions and affections following, there arifes a ferenity 
infinitely beyond the higheft quinteffence and elixir of 
worldly delight. South. —Any cordial ; or invigorating 
fubftance: 
What wonder then, if fields and regions here 
Breathe forth elixir, pure! Milton. 
EI.IXI V A'TION, f. [from eliXo, to boil, or lixivium, 
Lat. ley. ] The extraction of a fixed fait from vegetables 
by an affufion of water. 
ELI'ZABETH, [EAtcrr-d^r, Gr. of jnir'bN, Heb. God 
hath fworn.] The mother of John Baptifr.—A woman’s 
name. Bryant obferves that it was a Canaanitifh 
name, the fame as Elifa, Eleufa, Elafa, of Greece and 
other countries; It was a compound-of El-Ecs, and re¬ 
lated to the god of light. It was,made a femininein af¬ 
tertimes, and. was a nameaffumed by w-omen of the coun¬ 
try ftiled Phenicia, as well as by thofe of Cartilage. 
Hence Dido has this as a fecondary appellation ; and men¬ 
tion is made by the poet of Dii morientis Eliza:, though it 
was properly the name of a deity. Th.evvorfhip of Elifa 
was carried to Carthage from Canaan and Syria : in thefe 
parts (lie was fir ft worftiipped ; and her temple from that 
■worftiip was called Eliza-Betk. 
ELI'ZABETH, queen of England, daughter of Henry 
VIII. and Anna Boleyn, born at Greenwich, September 
7th, 1533. She was early inftruCled in the learned lan¬ 
guages ; and acquired likewrfe confiderable knowledge of 
the Italian, Spanifti, and French, languages. That the 
Latin W3S familiar to her, is evident from her fpeech to 
the univerfity of Cambridge, and another to that of Ox ford, 
when Hie was near fixty ; alfo from her fpirited anfwer to 
the Polifh ambaffador in 1598. She had likewife a tafte 
for poetry and mufic. She wrote, 1. The Mirror, or Glafs 
of the Sinful Soul. This was tranflated out of the French 
verfe into Englilh prole, when ftie was only eleven years 
of age. It was dedicated to queen Catherine Parr. Pro¬ 
bably it was never printed;, but the dedication and pre¬ 
face are preferred in the Sylioge epiftolaruni, in Hearne's 
ition of Livii Eoro-jfulienfis. 2. Prayersand Meditations, 
&c. dedicated to her father, dated at Hatfield, 1545. 
Manufcript, in the royal library. 3. A dialogue out of 
Xenophon, in Greek, between Hiero a King, and Simonides 
a Poet. 4. Two Orations of -Ifocrates, tranflated into 
Latin. 5. Latin Oration at Cambridge ; preferved in the 
king’s library. 6. Latin Oration at Oxford. 7. A Com¬ 
ment on Plato. 8. Boethius de cohfolatione pkilofophia, tranf¬ 
lated intoEnglifti 1593. 9 .Sallujl de hello Jugurthino, tranf- 
lated into: English 1590. 10, A play of Euripides-; tranf¬ 
lated into Latin. 11. A Prayer for the life of her fleet in 
tlie great expedition in 1596. 12. Part of Horace’s Art 
of Poetry, tranflated into Englifli 1598. 13. Plutarch de 
curiofitate , tranflated into Englilh. 14. Letters on various 
occafions to different perfons ; feveral lpeeches toller par¬ 
liament ; and a number of other pieces. See the article 
England in this volume, for her noble reign, and high 
character. 
ELI'Z A BETH, emprefs of Ruffia, diftinguifhed by her 
fignal clemency. She made a vow, that no perfon (hould 
be put to death in her reign, and fhe ftridtly obferved it. 
See the article Russia. 
ELI'ZABETH, a county of the American States, in 
Virginia, between York and James rivers, having War¬ 
wick and York counties on the weft, and Chefapeak bay 
on the eaft and north. There are feveral fmall iflandson 
its fea coaft, the chief of which are Long and Egg iflands. 
Point Comfort is the fouth-eaftern extremity of the 
county. It contains, by the cenfus of 1796, 3450 inha¬ 
bitants. 
ELI'ZABETH, the fouthern arm of James river, in 
Virginia, North America. It affords an excellent har¬ 
bour, large enough for three hundred ftiips. The chan¬ 
nel isfrom one hundred and fifty to two hundred fathoms 
wide ; and at common flood tide it has eighteen feet water 
ELK 
1' 
to Norfolk, which (lands near the mouth of its eafter* 
branch. The fouth branch rifes in the Difmal Swamp, 
Craney ifland, at the month of Elizabeth, lies five miles 
fouth-w'eft of Point Comfort, at the mouth of James 
river. 
ELI'ZABETH, a townfliip of the American States* 
in Lancaftercounty, Pennfylvania, with a Dutch church: 
eighteen miles north-weft by weft of Lancafter, and eighty- 
four weft by north of Philadelphia. 
ELI'ZABETH BAY, a bay in the drafts of Magellan. 
Lat. 53. 43. S. Ion. 73. 24. W. Greenwich. 
ELI'ZABETH ISLAND, in the drafts of Magellan, 
in South America. Here frefti water, herbs fit forfallad, 
and wild fowl, may be had in great plenty. The fnores 
alfo abound with Ihell-filh. 
ELI'ZABETH ISLANDS, feveral fmall iflands on 
the fouth eaft fide of Buzzard’s bay, in North America, 
extending fouth-weflerly from the extremity pf Barn- 
ftaple county, in Maffachufetts, and bearing north-weft 
from Martha’s Vineyard ; fituated between 41. 24. and 
41.32. north latitude, and between 70. 38. and 70.56. 
weft longitude. They are about fixteen in number ; the 
chief of which are Nalhawn, Pa.fqoi, Nafhawenna, Pine- 
quefe, and Chatahunk iflands. All thefe belong to Cuke’s 
county. 
ELI'ZABETHTOWN, a poft-town and borough of 
the American States, in Effex county, New Jerfey; plea- 
fantly fituated on a fmall creek which empties into Ar¬ 
thur Kull. Its foil is equal to any in the flate. In the 
town are two brick churches, one for Prefbyterians, very 
handfome, the other for Epilcopalians, and an academy. 
This is one of the oldeft towns in tire date, having been 
purchafed of the Indians as early as 1664, and fettled foon 
after: fix miles fouth of Newark, and fifteen fouth-weft 
by weft of New York. 
ELl'ZARETHTOVFN, a poft-town of the American 
States, in Maryland, and capital of Wafhington county, 
formerly called Hagarftovm, feated in the fertile valley 
of Conegocheague. It has feveral ftreets regularly laid 
out, and the houfes are principally built of brick and 
ftone. Epilcopalians, Prefbyterians, and German Lu¬ 
therans, have each a church. The court-houfe and mar- 
ket-houfe are hanufome buildings, and the jail is of ftone, 
and fubftantial. The trade with the weftern country is 
confiderable; and there are a number of mills in the 
neighbourhood, on Antietam creek. 
ELI'ZABETHTOWN, the chief town of the Ame¬ 
rican dates, in Tyrrel county, in Edenton diftri. 61 , North 
Carolina : forty miles from Fayetteville, and fifty-five 
from Wilmington. 
ELI'ZABETHTOWN, a poft-town of the American 
States, and the chief in Bladen county, North Carolina, 
fituated on the north-weft branch of Cape Fear: thirty- 
fix miles fouthward of Fayetteville, and forty-feven 
north-weft of Wilmington. 
ELIZE'US, the name of a man. Ecclus. xlviii. 12. 
ELI'ZUR, [Heb. God my rock.] A man’s name. 
ELK,/i [aelc, Sax.] See the article Cervus, vol. iv. 
P- 5 1 • 
And, fcarce his head 
Rais’d o’er the heapy wreath, the branching elk 
Lies flutnb’ring filent in the white abyfs. Thomfon. 
ELK, a creek in Northumberland county, Pennfylva- 
nia, which uniting with Penn’s creek, falls into the Suf- 
quehanna, five miles below Sunbury. 
ELK, a navigable river of the eaftern fhore of Mary¬ 
land, which rifes in Chefter county, Pennfylvania, by 
two"branch.es ; Big and Little Elk creeks. At their con¬ 
fluence (lands Elkton. 
ELK, a navigable river, in the date of Tennelfee. It 
rifes on the north-weft fide of Cumberland mountain, 
runs fouth-wefterly, and falls into the Tenneffee, a little 
above the Mufcle llioals;.about forty miles weft-north- 
weft of the Creeks’ Crofting Place. 
ELK, 
