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E'SAU, a- mountain of Arabia, in the country of 'Ye¬ 
men : four miles north of Udden. 
FIS AULO'VO, a town of Ruffian Siberia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Kolivan : thirty-fix miles eaft-Touth-eaft of 
Krafnoiarfk. 
ESCACE'NA, a town of Spain, in the country of Se¬ 
ville : twenty miles weft of Seville. 
ESCAII/LON, a river of France, which runs into the 
Scheldt, about two miles above Valenciennes. 
ES'CALA (La), a town of Spain, in the province of 
Catalonia, on the coaft of the Mediterranean: twenty- 
two miles eaft. of Gerona. Lat. 42. 7. N. Ion. 19. 43. E. 
Peak of TenerifFe. 
ESCALA'DE, f [French..] The adt of (forming a 
town or garrifon by mounting a wall or a rampart; car¬ 
ried on with ladders, without proceeding in form, breaking 
ground, or carrying on regular works to fecure the men. 
ESCALEN'TE, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Bifcav : fifteen miles eaft of Santander. 
ESCALLO'NI A,/. [fo named by the younger Lin- 
nteus, in honour of Monf. Efcallon, pupil and companion 
of Mutis, who found this, and many other rare plants, 
in their journey through New Granada, which they fent 
to Li mucus. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs pentaudria, 
order monogynia, natural order culycanthenue, (onagrte, 
Juf.) The generic charadters are—Calyx: one-leafed, 
five-cleft, fuperior, permanent; divifions fpreading, keel¬ 
ed, (harp. Corolla : petals five, tongue-lhaped, diftant, 
longer than the calyx. Stamina : filaments five, fmooth, 
oppofite to the divifions of the calyx, alternate with the 
petals, and ftiorter than them ; anthersc incumbent, faft- 
ened by the back to the filaments, emarginate, two-celled. 
Piftillum : germ half-inferior, an oblate fpheroid ; ftyle 
upright; ftigma capitate. Pericarpium : berry roundilh, 
furrounded with the calyx', terminated by the permanent 
ftyle, two-cejled. Seeds: numerous, fmall, neftling.— 
FJfential Charattcr. Calyx furrounding the fruit ; ftigma 
capitate ; berry two-celled, containing many feeds. 
Species. 1. Efcallonia myrtilloides, or myrtle efcallonia: 
leaves ferrulate, ending in a fmall dagger-point, veiny 
underneath. This is a branching leafy flmib ; branches 
wandlike, obfcurefy angular, covered with a fmooth, 
clunky, deciduous, bark. Berry the fize of a pea, covered 
with a lid, which does not feem to fall off fpontaneoufiy. 
Efcallon firft found it in New Granada. 
3. Efcallonia ferrata, or ferrate efcallonia : leaves fer¬ 
rate, fubretufe, veinlefs underneath. This is a Tow fiirub, 
very much branched, leafy, fmooth, and having the ap¬ 
pearance of vaccinium. Branches alternate, angular, fome- 
what flexuofe, with a fmooth pale bark. Berry fmall, 
continuing through the winter, covered with a lid which 
is cut round horizontally near the calyx, and at length 
falls off. All the parts of the fructification, except the 
petals, are only one-third of the fize of thofe in the fore¬ 
going fpecies. Coinmerfon found it in the ftraits of Ma¬ 
gellan ; and Menzies in Terra del Fuego. 
ESCALO'NA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : (ixteen miles north of Almeida. 
ESCALO'NA, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile: four¬ 
teen miles r.orth-north-eaft of Segovia. 
ESCALO'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
New Caftile, fituated on an eminence, in a fertile country, 
near the Alberche, and furrounded with walls; it con¬ 
tains four fauxbourgs, four churches, two convents, and 
a caftle : twenty miles north-weft of Toledo, and thirty- 
two fouth-weft of Madrid. 
ESCA'LOP, f. A fheil-fifh, whofe ffiell is regularly 
indented. See Concho log y, vol.v. p. 30.—The (hells 
of thofe cockles, ejealops, and periwinkles, which have 
■greater gravity, were enclofed in (lone. Woodward. —An 
inequality of margin ; indenture.—The figure of the leaves 
}s divided into jags and ejealops, curioufiy indented round 
the edges. Ray. 
ESCAM.'BI A, one of the mod confiderable rivers that 
fall into the bay of Penfacola, in Weft Florida, empties 
itfeLL hear the head of the north branch, about fifteen 
t SC 
Vmles'from Penfacohi, through feveral marches and 'chan¬ 
nels, which have a number of i(lands between them, that 
are overflowed when the water is high. A (hoal near its 
month prevents veflels drawing more than five or fix feet 
from entering; but there is from two to four fathoms of 
water afterwards. Ca-pt. Hutchinsafcended it in a boat up¬ 
wards of eighty miles, and from the depth of Water there, 
it appeared to be navigable for. pettiaugers many miles 
further. It is uncertain where its fource is. The courfe 
is very winding. At the mouth of the river, on the weft 
fide, was the town of Cambleton, fettled by French pro- 
feftants in 1766, but was afterwards abandoned. The 
lands in general, on eacjr fide of the river, are rich, low, 
or fwampy, admirably adapted for the culture of rice or 
corn. The great number of rivulets which fall into this 
river from the high circumjacent country, may be led 
over any part of the rice lands, at any feafon of the year, 
ESCANDE'RIA, f. The chandry or office where the 
candles are laid up, and delivered out for family ufes. 
ESCAPA'DE,yi [Fr.] Irregular motion of a horfe : 
He with a graceful pride. 
While his rider every hand furvey’d, 
Sprung loofe, and flew into an efcapade. Dryden. 
To ESCA'PE, v. a. [echaper , Fr.] To obtain exemp¬ 
tion from; to obtain fecurity from; to fly; to avoid.—^ 
Since we cannot efcape the purfuit of paffions, and per¬ 
plexity of thoughts, there is no way left but to endeavour 
all we can either to fubdue or divert them. Temple. —To 
pafs unobferved by one.—Men are blinded with igno¬ 
rance and error: many things may ej'cape them, in many 
they may be deceived. Hooker. 
’Tis ftill the fame, although their airy (hape 
All but a quick poetic fight efcape. Denham. 
7 b ESCA'PE, v.n. To fly; to get out of danger; to 
avoid puniftiment or harm.— Efcape for thy life; look not 
behind thee, neither (lay thou in all the plain : efcape to 
the mountain, left thou be confumed. Genefis. —Whofo 
pleafeth God (hall ej'cape from her, but the finner (hall 
be taken by her. Eccl. vii. 26.—If laws are not executed, 
men of virtue are difgraced, and murderers efcape. Watts. 
ESCA'PE, f. Flight; the adl of getting out of dan¬ 
ger.—I would haften my efcape from the windy (form and 
temped. Pfalrns, Iv. 8.—Men of virtue have had extraor¬ 
dinary e/capes out of fuch dangers as have enclofed them, 
and which have feemed inevitable. Addifon. —Excurfion ; 
fa 11 y.—We made an efcape, not fo much to feek our own, 
as to be inftruments of your fafety. Denham. —Excufe ; 
fubterfuge ; evafion.—St. Paul himfelf did not defpife 
to remember whatfoever he found agreeable to the word 
of God among the heathen, that he might take front 
them all efcape by way of ignorance. Raleigh. —Sally ; 
flight; irregularity.— Loofe J'capes of love. Milton. 
Thoufand fcapes of wit, 
Make thee the father of their idle dreams, 
And rack thee in their fancies. Shdkefpeart. ■ 
Overfiglit; miftake.—In tranferibing there would be lels 
care taken, as the language was lefs underftood, and fo 
the ej'capes lefs fubjedt to obfervation. Rrtrcwdod. 
ESCA'PE, in the Englilh jurifprudence, is where a 
perfon arrefted or imprifoned gets away before he is deli¬ 
vered by due courfe of law. If at the petition of A. and 
the reft of the creditors of B. a conimiftion under the 
ftatutes againft bankrupts is ilfued out againft B. and 
thereupon the commiffioners fit and offer interrogatories 
to C. and he refufe to be examined, and by them is there¬ 
upon committed to prifon, and the gaoler fuffers him to 
efcape, as the commiffioners had fufficient authority to 
commit, and A. was prejudiced by the efcape, he may 
maintain an adtion againft the gaoler. 1 Rol. Rep. 47. 
The (heriff cannot be charged with an efcape before lie 
had the party in adlual cuftody by a legal authority ; and 
therefore if an officer, having a warrant to arreft a man, 
fee him flint up in a hdufe, and challenge him as his pri- 
foner, but never actually have him in his cuftody, and 
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