of the Mississippi, opposite St. Louis, and connected with it by a great
steel arch bridge and another bridge, carrying numerous lines of railway.
Pop. 58,547.
EASTWOOD, a town of England, in Notts, on the Derbyshire border, with
coal-mines, 8-1/2 miles W.N.W. of Nottingham. Pop. 4692.
EAU ([=o]), a French word signifying _water_, and used in English with some
other words for several spirituous waters, particularly perfumes, as _eau
de Cologne_, and _eau de Luce_.--_Eau de Cologne_ is a fragrant water, made
originally and in most perfection in Cologne by a manufacturer named
Farina, by whose successors the only genuine water is said still to be
manufactured. It consists of spirits of wine flavoured by different
essential oils blended so as to yield a fine fragrant scent. It was
invented in Northern Italy by one of the Farina family, who afterwards
settled in Cologne.--_Eau Cr['e]ole_, a highly esteemed liqueur made in
Martinique by distilling the flowers of the mammee apple with spirit of
wine.--_Eau de Luce_ ('water of Luce'), so called from the name of its
inventor, is made by dissolving white soap in spirit of wine, and adding
oil of amber and sal ammoniac. It is a milky fluid, antispasmodic and
stimulant.--_Eau de Vie_ ('water of life'), a term used by the French for
the coarser kinds of brandy, _cognac_ being the name of the best.
EAU CLAIRE ([=o] kl[=a]r), a city of Wisconsin, United States, at the
junction of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers, a great lumbering centre.
In 1910 Eau Claire adopted the commission form of government, being the
first city in the state to do so. Pop. 18,310.
EAUX-BONNES ([=o]-bon), a watering-place, France, department of Basses
Pyr['e]n['e]es, about 25 miles south of Pau. The hot sulphur springs are
said to have great efficacy in affections of the chest. Pop. 622.--Near it
is _Eaux Chaudes_, also with warm springs.
E'BAL, a mountain of Western Palestine about half-way between Jerusalem and
Nazareth, on the north side of a narrow valley, on the south side of which
and directly opposite stands Mt. Gerizim with Nablous almost between. Here
the Israelites set up an altar on their entrance into the Holy Land and had
the law solemnly read to them by Joshua (_Jos._ viii 30-35). At the east
end of the valley are Jacob's Well and Joseph's Tomb.
EBBSFLEET, a hamlet in the Isle of Thanet, county Kent, memorable as the
place where the first Anglo-Saxon invaders landed.
EBBW-VALE, a town of England, in Monmouthshire, with ironworks, steelworks,
and collieries. Pop. 30,540.
EBENA'CEAE, a nat. ord. of gamopetalous Dicotyledons, consisting of trees
and shrubs, of which the wood is very hard, and frequently of very dark
colour in the centre, as ebony. The leaves are alternate, and generally
coriaceous and shining; calyx gamosepalous and persistent, with three or
six equal divisions; corolla with imbricated divisions. The fruit is a
globular berry containing a small number of compressed seeds. The principal
genus is Diosp[)y]ros, which yields ebony and iron-wood.
EBERS ([=a]'b[.e]rz), Georg Moritz, German Egyptologist and novelist, born
1st March, 1837, at Berlin, died in 1898. He studied at G[:o]ttingen, and
afterwards at Berlin, where he devoted himself to Egyptology. In 1870 he
was made professor at the University of Leipzig, but he had to resign in
1889. In 1869 and 1870 he travelled extensively in Egypt and Nubia. Two
years later he again visited Egypt, where he discovered the medical
papyrus, known as the _Papyrus Ebers_. His most important works have been
translated into English, such as _Egypt, Descriptive, Historical, and
Picturesque_; and the novels _An Egyptian Princess_, _Uarda_, _Homo Sum_,
_The Emperor_, _The Sisters_, all dealing with old Egyptian life; _The
Burgomaster's Wife_, and _Only a Word_.
EBERSWALDE ([=a]'berz-v[.a]l-de), a town in Prussia, in the province of
Brandenburg, on the Finow Canal, 27 miles north-east of Berlin. It has a
school of forestry, piscicultural establishment, botanic gardens,
well-frequented mineral springs, and industrial works of various kinds.
Pop. 26,064.
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