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ELK LAKE, one of the chain of fmall lakes in North 
America, which connects the lake of the Woods with 
lake Superior. Lat.48.4i.N. Ion. 93. W. 
ELKA'NAH, [Heb. the reed of God.] A man’s 
name. 
ELKAR'RIE, a town of Arabia, in the country of 
Yemen: twenty-four miles north-eaft of Abu-Arifch. 
ELKAS'SAREN, a town of Arabia, in the country 
of Yemen: eight miles eaft of Chamir. 
ELKAT'TA, a town of Egypt: fourteen miles north- 
weft of Cairo. 
ELKE,y. A kind of yew to make bows. Statute 32 
Hen. VIII. c, 9. 
EL'KO, or Edko, a lake of Egypt, formed in the 
year 1800, by an encroachment of the fea. See the article 
Egypt, p.363, of this volume. 
ELK'RIDGE, a town of the Atnerican States, in Ann 
Arundel county, Maryland, fituated on the fouth bank 
of Patapfco river, and on the weft tide of Deep Run; fa¬ 
mous ft.r the bright tobacco called kite's foot : eight miles 
fouth-weft of Baltimore, and nineteen north-weft of An¬ 
napolis. Lat. 39. 12. 30. N. 
ELK'TON, a poll town of the American States, of 
confiderable trade, (ituate at the head of Chefapeak bay, 
in Maryland, and the capital of Cecil county. It is 
feated at the confluence of the head branches of Elk 
river, thirteen miles from its mouth at Turkey Point, and 
a mile above French town. The tide flows up to the 
town, and it enjoys great advantages from the carrying 
trade, between Baltimore and Philadelphia. Upwards of 
250,000 bufhels of wheat are colledted here annually, for 
fupplying thofe markets, and the neighbouring mills : 
twelve miles fouth-weft of Chriftiana bridge, ten north- 
eaft of Churleftown, forty-feven fouth-weft of Philadel¬ 
phia, and fifty-fix north-eaft of Baltimore. 
ELK'UVAR, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 
Tobol. Lat.52. 55. N. Ion. 81. E. Ferro. 
ELL, fo. [eln, Sax. ulna, Lat.] A meafure containing 
forty-five inches, or a yard and a quarter.—They are laid 
to make yearly forty thoufand pieces of linen cloth, reck¬ 
oning two hundred ells to the piece. Addijon. 
The ells raofi ufed with us are the Englifh and Fle- 
mifh ; the former containing three feet nine inches, or one 
yard and a quarter; the latter only 27 inches, or three 
quarters of a yard ; fo that the ell Englifh is to the Fle- 
mifh ell as five to three. In Scotland, the ell contains 
37 t 2 5 Englifh inches. M. Ricard, in his Treatife of Com¬ 
merce, reduces the ells thus: 100 ells of Amfterdam are 
equal to 98A of Brabant, Antwerp, and Bruffels; to 58^ 
of England and France; to 120 of Hamburgh, Francfort, 
Leipfic, and Cologne; 125 of Breflaw; 110 of Bergen 
and Drontheim ; and 117 of Stockholm. 
EL'LA, [ellen, Sax. valour.] The find king of the 
South Saxons. 
EL'LAR, a town of Germany, in the circle of Well- 
phalia, and principality of Naflau Dillenburg: twelve 
miles fouth fouth-eaft of Dillenburg. 
ELLASAR', the king of which joined Chedorlaomer, 
when he invaded Canaan, and was vanquifhed by the 
patriarch Abraham. Gen. xiv. It bears great affinity in 
name with Thelafar, 1 ‘Kings, xix. 12. and Telaflar, Ifoaiah, 
xxxvii. 12. which, though differently fpelt, are one in 
reality; and Ellafar is very probably the fame place. 
ELLE'BORINE,y. in botany. See Astrantia, Cv- 
Pripedium, and Serapias. 
ELLE'BORUM, and ELLEBO'RUS, fo in botany. 
See Helleborus. 
EL'LEDAT, a town of the ifland of Ceylon: twelve 
miles fouth of Candy. 
EL'LEHOLM, a fea-port town of Sweden, on the 
fouth ccaft of the province of Blekingen, on the Baltic: 
eight miles weft of Carlfcron. 
EL'LEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft, 
phalia, and duchy of Juliers; four miles lbuth.eaft of 
Juliers, 
Vol. VI. No. 365. 
EL'LENBOGEN, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Bregentz : feventeen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bregentz. 
EL'LENHOSEN, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Bregentz : fourteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Bregentz. 
ELLERE'NA, a town of North America, in Mexico, 
and province of Zacatecas : twenty-five miles weft of 
Zacatecas. 
ELLERE'NA, or Elerena, a town of Spain, in the 
province of Eftremadura, belonging to the knights of the 
order of St. Jago, by whom it was founded: fifty-five 
miles north of Seville, and fifty-two weft of Cordova. 
Lat. 38. 8. N. Ion. 10. 48. E. Peak of Te eriffe. 
EL'LESMERE, a neat and pleafant town in the coun¬ 
ty of Salop, diflant from London 144 miles, fixteen from 
Shrewfbury, and twenty-three from Chefter. This town is 
of Saxon origin, and takes its name from the wafer, which 
was called Aelfomere, or thegreateft mere, being the chief in 
this part of the county. This lake is one hundred acres 
in dimenfions; and is exceedingly well flocked with fifh. 
The environs have two advantages; a good town borders 
on one fide ; the fine park of Ockle, or Ottley, on the other. 
This is the ancient feat of the Kynaftons. The manfion 
appears to be very old, and (lands low ; but the park is very 
fine, having the greateft quantity of the fined elm-trees per¬ 
haps to be found in any part of England. Ellefmere water 
is the property of the duke of Bridgewater; and from this 
place his grace takes the title of baron. This town has lit¬ 
tle to boaft except its fituation. The principal trade is 
that of malt, the barley of the neighbourhood being re¬ 
markably good. It has a market on Tuefdays; fairs, 
third Tuefday in April, Whit-Tuefday, AugUft 25, and 
November 14. On Caftlehill there is one of the fined 
bowling-greens in the kingdom; nine different counties 
are feen from the green. A new canal is cut to this town, 
called the Ellefmere canal. The country round Ellef¬ 
mere is moftly flat, dirty, and unpleafing. On the ap¬ 
proach to the town it becomes more agreeable, and about 
it breaks into mod beautiful rifings, fertile, and finely 
wooded. The bottoms are indeed deftitute of rivers, but 
frequently filled with li.tle lakes, called metes , elegantly 
bordered by the cultivated hills. It is Angular, that none 
of thernare the parents of dreams; their increafe from rain 
and fprings, and their lofs by exhalations, appear to keep 
equal pace. 
ELL'FELD, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up- 
per Saxony, and circle of the Vogtland: two miles fouth 
of Auerbach. 
ELLICI- 1 POUR', a city of Rindooflan, and capital of 
a circar of the fame name, in the country of Berar, fub- 
jedt to the Nizam. It was formerly the capital of Berar: 
144 miles north-eaft of Aurungabad. Lat. 21. 12. N. Ion. 
78. 5. E. Greenwich. 
EL'LINGTON, a towmfliip of the American States, 
in Tolland county, Connedlicut: twelve miles north-eaft 
of Hartford city, and fix weft of Tolland. 
ELLI'PSE,/ An oval figure.—A circle feen obliquely 
will appear an ellipfoe. Reid. See Conic Sections, vol v.p. 80. 
ELLIP'SIS, fo. [\dhpfoe , Fr. ellijje, It. ellipfos, Lat. of 
eXAei^k. Gr.] A figure of rhetoric, by which fomething 
is left out neceflary to be fupplied by the hearer; as, the 
thing l love y for the thing which I love .—The words are de¬ 
livered byway of ellipfos , Rom. iv. 18. Hammond .—[In geo¬ 
metry.] An oval figure generated from the fedtion of a 
cone, by a plane cutting both fides of the cone, but not 
parallel to the bafe, which produces a circle, and meet¬ 
ing with the bafe when produced. Harris. 
ELLIP'SOID, fo. An elliptical (pheroid, being the 
folid generated by the revolution of an ellipfe about 
either axis. 
ELLIP'TIC, or Elliptical, adj. Having the form 
of an ellipfis; oval.—In animals, that gafher food from 
the ground, the pupil is oval or elliptical-, thegreateft 
diameter going tranfverfely from fide to fide. C/teyne .—■ 
According to ellipfis, the rhetorical figure.—See where 
this elliptical phrale is expreffed at length. Tyrwlutt. 
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