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join.] The aft of joining together; the (late of being join¬ 
ed together. In rhetoric, it is a repetition of the fame 
word in the fame fentence or verfe, no other word com¬ 
ing between. 
EPNJEUMA'TOSIS, f [from sin, uppn, and 
Gr. the breath.] The ait or power of breathing out. 
E'POCH, or Epocha.T". [epocha, Lat. £ir oyyi, of eth, 
upon, and e^&j, Gr. to hold. ] In chronology, the time at 
which a new computation is begun ; the time from which 
dates are numbered.—Moles diltinitly computes by cer¬ 
tain intervals, memorable aeras and epockas, or terms of 
time. Brown. —Time is always reckoned from fome known 
parts of this fenlible world, and from fome certain epochs 
marked out to us by the motions obfervable in it. Locke. 
Time by neceffity compell’d, fhall go 
Through feenes of war, and epochas of woe. Prior. 
Different nations make ufe of different epochs. The 
Chriftians chiefly ufe the epoch of the nativity or incarna¬ 
tion of Jefus Chrift; the Mahometans, that of the 
Hegira; the Jews, that of the creation of the world, or 
that of the Deluge; the ancient Greeks, that of the 
Olympiads; the Romans, that of the building of their 
city ; the ancient Perfians and Affyrians, that of Nabo- 
nalfar ; See. The doCtrine and ufe of epochs is of very 
great extent in chronology. To reduce the years of one 
epoch to thofe of another, is to find what year of one cor- 
refponds to a given year of another ; a period of years has 
been invented, which, commencing before all the know n 
epochs, is, as it were, a common receptacle of them all, 
called the Julian Period. To this period all the epochs 
are reduced ; i. e. the year of this period when each epoch 
commences is determined. So that, adding the given 
year of one epoch to the year of the period correfponding 
with its rife, and from the fum fubtraCting the year of 
the fame period correfponding to the other epoch, the 
remainder is the year of that other epoch.—See Chro¬ 
nology, vol. iv. p. 537. 
EPODE,y [epodus , Lat. of etti, after, and u&a 1 , Gr. 
fongs.] One of the numbers of that fort of lyric poetry, 
of which the odes of Pindar confift. 
EPOISS'E, a town of France, in the department of 
the Cote.d’Or, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCl 
of Semur-en-Auxois : feven miles weft Semur. 
EP'OMIS,/. [of etti, and a^o<;, Gr. a Ihoulder.] An 
hood, fuch as univerfiry Undents wear. It was alfo a 
part of the Jewifti high-prieft’s vefture. See Efhod. 
EP'ONA, a beautiful girl, faid to have been the fruit 
of a man’s union with a mare. 
EPGPE'E,/! [Gr.] An epic or heroic poem.—Tra¬ 
gedy borrows from the epopee, and that which borrows is 
of lefs dignity, becaufe it has not of its own. Dryden. 
EPO'PEUS, a fon of Neptune and Canace, who came 
from Theflaly to Sicyon, and carried away Antiope, 
daughter of Ny&eus king of Thebes. This rape was 
followed by a war, in which NyCteus and Epopeus w ere 
both killed. ApolLcdorus. 
EPOS'CHEUM, J. [from iiri, upon, and oayyov, Gr. a 
branch. ] In botany, a tendril, or little fpiral ramification, 
growing from the branches. 
EP'PING, a neat and pleafant town, in the county of 
Eflex, with a market on Thurfdays for cattle, and ano¬ 
ther on Fridays for provifions. The fairs are Whit- 
Tuefday, and OCtober 13. The butter made in this part, 
known in London by the name of Epping-butter, is in 
particular efteem, and fells, in courfe, at a higher price 
than any other. 
Epping Forest, is a royal chafe, extending from the 
town of Epping alrnoft to London ; .it was anciently a very 
extenfive diftriCl:, and, under the name of the Ford! of 
Eflex, included a great part of the county. It had after¬ 
wards the name of Waltham-foreft, which has long yield¬ 
ed to its prefent appellation.. To this foreft, that of 
Hainault, which lies to the fouth-eaft, was once an ap» 
Voi. VI. No. 398. 
EPS $73 
pendage. In Hainault-foreft, about a mile from Barking 
Side, (lands the celebrated oak, known through many 
centuries by the name of Fairlop. “ The tradition of 
the country,” fays Mr. Gilpin, in his Remarks on Foreft 
Scenery, “ traces this oak way up the Chriftian aera. It 
is frill a noble tree, though it lias fuffered greatly from 
the depredations of time. About a yard from the ground, 
where its rough fluted ftem is thirty-fix feet in circum¬ 
ference, it divides into eleven vaft arms ; yet not in the 
horizontal manner of an oak, but rather in that of a beech. 
Beneath its (hade, which overfpreads an area of 300 feet 
in circuit, an annual fair has long been held, on the fecond 
of July; and no booth is fuffered to be ereCted beyond 
the extent of its boughs.” This venerable oak is now 
fenced round with a clofe paling, about five feet high. 
Aimoft all the extremities of its brandies have been flaw¬ 
ed off, and Mr. Forflyth’s compofition applied to them, 
to preflerve them from decay ; and the injuries which the 
trunk of the tree had fuftained, have been repaired, as 
much as poffible, by the fame compofition. 
Wanfted village, and Wanfted Houle, the magnificent 
feat and extenfive park and gardens of fir James Tylney 
Long, bart. hereditary warden of Epping-foreft, are very 
contiguous to Epping town. The ancient manor was 
granted, by Edward VI. to Robert lord Rich. He fold 
it to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicefter, who, in 1638, en¬ 
tertained queen Elizabeth here, for five or fix days. 
Reverting to the crown, king James gave it to fir Henry 
Mildmay, who having been one of the judges of Charles I. 
it was forfeited. Charles II. gave it to the duke of 
York, who fold it to fir Robert Brooks. Of the repre- 
fentatives of this gentleman (who had retired infolvent to 
France) it was purchafed by fir Jofiah Child, bait, a con- 
fiderable merchant, author of fome valuable commercial 
trails, and great grandfather to the late earl Tylney, 
from whom it defeended to the prefent proprietor. Sir 
Jofiah Child planted a great number of trees in avenues 
and viftas leading to the feite of the old manfion. His 
fon, before he was created vifeount Caftlemain, laid out 
fome extenfive grounds in gardens ; and, after thefe were 
finiflied, he employed the celebrated Colin Campbell to 
build the prefent ftruCture, which is cafed with Portland 
ftone, and is upwards of 26 o feet in length and 70 in 
depth. It is one of the nobleft houfes, not only in Eng¬ 
land, but in Europe; and its grand front is thought to be 
as fine a piece of architecture as any in Italy. Wanfted 
Houfe is now celebrious, aR affording a fafe and elegant 
afylum to the unfortunate royal Bourbon family, exiled 
from their patrimonial fovereignty in France, but pro¬ 
tected, comforted, and cherifhed, by the illuftrious foVe- 
reign of Great-Britain. 
EP'PING, a townfhip of the American dates, in Rock¬ 
ingham county, New-Hamplhire, taken from the north-weft 
part of Exeter, and incorporated in 1741. It contained 
by the cenfus of 1796, 1740 inhabitants : fix miles north- 
weft of Exeter, and eighteen weft of Portfmouth. 
EP'PING, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria: fotirmiles fouth Aigen. 
EPPIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and palatinate of the Rhine, on the Elfatz : 
ten miles weft Heilbron, and eighteen fouth-fouth-eaft 
Heidelberg. 
EP'SOM, a neat and pleafant town in the county of 
Surrey, nine miles from Dorking, and fixteen from Lon¬ 
don, long famous for its mineral waters, its charming 
opening to Banftead Downs, and its many handfome con¬ 
tiguous feats. Its purging waters were firft difeovered in 
1618, and, though not in fuch repute as formerly, yet they 
are not impaired in virtue, and the fait made from them is 
famous all over Europe, for gently cleanfing, cooling, and 
purifying the body. Epfom has a market on Friday ; and 
a fair July 25. Near Epfom is Durdans, originally built 
by George firft earl of Berkeley, with the materials brought 
from Nonfuch, when that celebrated royal reliuence, the 
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