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EGG-BIRD, xxm. 189.

EGG-EATER, snake, xxn. 194.

EGGERTZ, on iron and steel, xni. 282.

EGG OIL, xvn. 744, 747.

EGG PLANT, xn. 282.

EGGS, vii. 696. See Egg.

EGIDIO (Giles), St, x. 595.

EGINA, or /Egina (q.v.), island, Greece,

i. 1 80. EG IN HARD, biographer of Charlemagne,

vn. 697.

EGLANTINE, sweet brier, vii. 698. EGLINTON, Thirteenth Earl of, vii. 699. CASTLE, Ayrshire, Scotland, xiv.

77-

EGMONT, or Egmond, Lamoral, Count of, vii. 699.

, Goethe s play, x. 730.

, Mount, New Zealand, XVII. 466.

EGMORE, suburb of Madras, India, xv. 188.

EGO, in psychology, XX. 39, 70, 83; in Schleiermacher s system, XXI. 412.

EGORIEVSK, town, Russia, xxi. 116.

EGRET, bird, XL 761.

EGYPT, country, Africa, vii. 700 (index, 788); I. 266; antiquity of the dynas ties, II. 117; contests with Assyria, ill. 187; relations with ancient Persia, XVlll. 571, 574, 579, 580; with the Philistines, xvin. 757; conquest of, by Cambyses (525 B.C.), IV. 733; xvm. 567; by Alexander (332 B.C.), I. 482; XV. 140; Hellenism in, xv. 143; ac knowledges suzerainty of Rome (168 B.C.), XX. 751, 754; conquest of, by the Arabs (640), I. 778; II. 257; by the Turks (1517), xxm. 643; French expedition to (1798), IX. 611; Napoleon I. in, XVIL 200; plague in, xix. 166; agriculture of, I. 291; archi tecture, II. 384; armies, II. 559; birds, in. 758; caste in, v. 192; coins of, xvn. 650; Copts of, VI. 354; cosmo gonies, VI. 447; methods of embalm ing the dead, vm. 158; glass-making, x. 647; hieroglyphics, I. 605; XI. 794; language, XI. 794; xvin. 778; XXI. 642; libraries, Xiv. 509, 549; monach- ism in, I. 23; xvi. 698, 699; mum mies, xvn. 20; mythology, xvn. 150; pottery, XIX. 603; pyramids, XX. 122; religions, xxm. 236; ships and vessels, xxi. 805 ; wall-paintings, XVII. 39 ; weights and measures, XXIV. 490; cotton supply, VI. 484; opium culti vation, XVII. 792; railways, XX. 252.

EGYPTIAN ASTRONOMY, n. 744.

EGYPTIAN DRAMA, vn. 403.

EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE, vn. 721; XL 794; xvill. 778; its relation to Semitic languages, XXI. 642; dictionaries of, vn. 192.

EGYPTIAN LITERATURE, vn. 721.

EHLITE, mineral, xvi. 406.

EHRENBERG, C. G., on the Rotifera, xxi. 4.

EHRENBREITSTEIN, town, Rhenish

Prussia, vn. 788. EHRENSVARD, Karl August, Swedish

critic, xxn. 757. EHSTS (Esthonians, q.v.), people, Russia,

xiv. 724.

ElBENSTOCK, town, Saxony, vii. 788. EICHENDORFF, Joseph, Freiherr von,

German poet, vn. 788; x. 542. ElCHHOLZHElM, Castle of, Mannheim,

Germany, XV. 494. ElCHHORN, Johann Gottfried, German

Biblical critic, vn. 788; xx. 290. , Karl Friedrich, German jurist, vn.

789; his relations with Savigny, xxi.

326.

EICHSTADT, town, Bavaria, vn. 789. EIDER, marine duck, vn. 789; xix.

252.

, river, Schleswig-Holstein, xxi. 414.

ElDOGRAPH, instrument for surveying,

xxil. 721. ElDOPHUSlCON, panoramic invention of

De Loutherbourg, vn. 52. EIFEL, plateau, Rhenish Prussia, XX.

20. EIKON BASILIKE, controversy as to its

authorship, v. 407; x. 109. ElKONOKLASTES, Milton s pamphlet,

xvi. 332.

EILDON HILLS, Scotland, xxi. 34. EILENBURG, town, Prussia, vn. 790. EILETHYIA, ruined town, Egypt, vn.

736, 782. EILSEN, Germany, mineral water of,

xvi. 435.

EIMAK, tribe, Afghanistan, I. 235. ElMBECK, or Einbeck, town, Prussia,

vn. 790. ElMEO, island, Tahiti Archipelago,

Pacific, XXlli. 22. EINBECK, town, Prussia, vii. 790. ElNHARDUS (Eginhard), biographer of

Charlemagne, vii. 697. EINSIEDELN, town, Switzerland, vii.

790; XXI. 465.

ElON, port, Macedonia, xv. 137. EISENACH, town, Germany, vii. 790;

xxi. 349. ElSENBERG, town, Germany, vn. 790;

xxi. 347.

ElSENBURG, county, Hungary, vn. 790. EiSENNlCKELKlES, mineral, xvi. 392. ElSENSTADT, town, Hungary, vii. 790. ElSFELD, town, Germany, xxi. 348. EISLEBEN, town, Prussia, vn. 791. EISTEDDFOD, Welsh bardic congress,

vn. 791; in. 370. EISTHALER THURM, mountain, Austria,

in. 116.

EJECTMENT, in English law, vn. 792. EJIGBO, town, West Africa, xxiv. 754. EKATERINBURG, town, Asiatic Russia,

vn. 793; xvin. 550; xxn. u; xxiv.

6; thunderstorms at, xvi. 128. EKATERINODAR, town, Russia, vn. 793;

xiv. 150.

EKATERINOSLAFF, government, Russia,

vii. 793; xxi. 69; town, vn. 794. EKATERINSTADT, village, Russia, xvn.

504. EKBATANA (Ecbatana, q.v.), ancient

town, Media, vii. 621. EKDALAH, town, India, x. 112, 115. EKERSBERG, Danish painter, vii. 93. EKHMIN, town, Upper Egypt, vn. 794. EKREM BEY, Turkish poet, xxm. 657. EKRON, town of the Philistines, vn.

7945 xvm. 755.

EL, Phoenician deity, xvin. 803. ELABUGA, town, Russia, xxiv. 303. EL^EOLITE, mineral, xvi. 412. EL^EOPTENE OIL, xvn. 747. ELAGABALUS (Heliogabalus), Roman

emperor, XL 632. ELAIS GuiNEENSiS, source of palm oil,

xvin. 190.

EL AKSA, mosque, Jerusalem, XIII. 642. EL-AKSUR, town, Egypt, xv. 89. EL-ALTAR, mountain, Ecuador, vn.

645. ELAM, province, ancient Persia, vn.

794; in. 185; xiv. 68. ELAND, antelope, vn. 796; n. 101; xv.

432-

ELANUS, genus of birds, xiv. 104. ELAPS, genus of snakes, xxn. 193,

196.

EL-ARAISH, town, Morocco, vn. 796. EL ARISH, town, Syria, capitulation of

(1800), v. 74; taken by Napoleon

(1799), xvn. 201. EL-ASEE (Amr b. al-As, .q.v.), Arab

conqueror of Egypt, vn. 749. EL-ASMAI, Arabic writer, n. 713. ELASMODON, genus of ungulate mam mals, xv. 425. ELASMOGNATHUS, genus of ungulate

mammals, XV. 428; xxm. 56. ELASMOSAURUS, fossil reptile, xix. 220. ELASTICITY, vn. 796; xxn. 595, 598,

603; of metals, xvi. 65, 378; coefficient

of, vi. 311; modulus of, iv. 287; xxn.

595; in relation to sound, I. 101. ELASTIC SOLID, Dynamics of, xv. 743. ELATEA (Citheeron), mountain, Greece,

v. 794.

ELATERITE, mineral, xvi. 428. ELATER LINEATUS, wheat pest, xxiv.

536.

ELATERUM, drug, vn. 825; vi. 688. ELATH, of Scripture, i. 434. ELATMA, town, Russia, xxm. 41. ELATO, mountain, Cephalonia, Greece,

v. 344- ELATOBRANCHIA, group of Mollusca,

xvi. 684.

ELAVER (Allier), river, France, I. 585. ELBA, island, Mediterranean, vn. 825;

xni. 440; Napoleon at (1814), xvn.

222. ELBE, river, Germany, vn. 825; x. 449;

in Austria, in. 116.

ELBE-DUES, of Stade, xxn. 439.