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tr.e egg is all'lJ)'s quile full whco it is r,rfl lJiJ by Ihe
ht'A, but fromth. t lIote it
~radnally
b.comes lel, and
I,Cs [o, to il' dccay ; aod howevcr comp,fl and cloCe
vs
Otdl mal'
app~M,
it is ncverthekf, perlowed witlt
" multitude of Cmall holts, thongh100 mioute fuI' the
diicernmtnl of onr eyes, the efTeél of which i, a daily
d:crca[eof mmer within the egg, (rom the time
oC
liS
beingbid ; and theperCpiration is much quicker in hot
",cather
Ih~n
in cold.
To p"favethe egg frefh, there need, no more Ihao
to prcferve it full, and flop ils tranfpiration; Ihe Ole·
thod of doing which i9,
by
aoppiog up tho[e p'lres
with mattCr which is oOt foluble in watery fl uids; and
onIhis priocipleit is, that all kiods of varnifh , prepated
with fpiri t of wioc. will pleferve eggs frcfh for a long
ti"le, if
tbey
ale carcfu lly rubbcd all Ovtr Ihe fltell :
tallow, or mutton fat, i9 al[o good for this purpoCe, fo r
fuch as arerubbed Ol'cr with this will ke?? as long as
tho[e coated over with I·aroifh.
Jlrtifici"l llItlhod
of
h," Ch;"'g
EGcs, See Hn cHINc,
EGLANTlNE, in botany. See Ro
SAo
EGRA, a city of Bohemia, fi tumd 00 a river of the
fame oame, aboO! Ceventy-five miles
\Vea
o[ Prague:
E, long, 12°
22',
N, lat, 50° 10',
EGYPT, an eXlcnfive
cour.tr)' of Africa, Iying bel\Veen
30· and 36° of eaft longilude, and uel\Vcen
2 l ·
and
3
1
°
of north latilude; and bounded
by
the Medilerranean
on Ihe north; by Ihe Red·[ea and IfIhmus of
Sue~,
which divide il from Arabia, on Ihe ean ;
by
Abyfll–
Di.
or Elhiopia, on Ihe foulh; and
by
Ihe defarrs of
Barca .nd Nubia, on Ihe well ; beingfi x hundred miles
in lenglh fromnorlh 10 foulh, and ,fromone hundred
10 IwO hundred in breadth from ean 10 \\'en, Egypt
is fubjea lo Ihe grand fignior, and governed by a ba–
fhaw, or viceroy,
Ir
owes ils ferrilllY 10 Ihe annual
overflowing of the Ntle, which it begins 10 do in Ihe
monlhsof Mal' and June, and is u[utlly al ils height
in Septemuer, fromIVhieh lime Ihe walersdecreafe tlJI
MayOr June again, By Ihis fupply of water, Egypt
is rendered fo fruilful, as 10 fen'e Conaanlinople and
olher plaees IVith corn, asit did Romeand Iralyof old,
They only harrow Iheir grai. inlOthe mud, on Ihe re–
liring of the water, and in March foJlowing
ttCu~lIy
have aplenliful harveH; and the lands, nOI [own, yleld
good erop9 of grafs for Ihe ufe of the canle, Accor–
ding lOMr, Sandys, no counrry in the world is beuer
furniOledwith grain, flefh, fifh, fugar, fruilS, melons,
rOOI!, and olher garden Huff, than Ibe lower E–
gy!'1
EGYPTEN, a lown of Courland, fevenly miles [oulh.
eaa of Mitrau,
EGYPTI ANS, or GvP S!! S, in Seols law, a band of
robbers originally from Egypl, which infeaed Scot–
land about theend of Ihe 16th century,
EjACULATOR, a mufcle of Ihe pcnis, See Vol.
1.
P, 17°,
EICHrERNAC, a town of Luxemburg, [el'en miles
nonh ",ea of Treves,
EJECTA,
a
lerm nfed, by I.!wym, for
a
woman de–
flowered, or can frolll thevirtuous,
EJ ECTION, in Ihe animal o:cana¡;¡y, encuatian, or
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11.
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A
Ihe dif,I'Jrging
~ny
IÍling Ihrousll fome of Ihe
em~nc
IOrics, as by 11001, rUlllit,
6c,
EJ ECTIOS, io Scots la\V, is Ihe tltrning Ol! the pofTeC–
lor
~f
anyhcnrable
[~bj~fl ~y
force; aoc is eilher
Icgol,
or
,"~~ol.-Legal ~Jetlton
IS
where a perCon haling
no mle lOpo/fe[s,
IS
turoed OUI by the aUlhorily of
l. ·»: See REMOV INC ,
III~gal
ej'Bion, is one per–
fon's , iolently tI"ning anolher out of
poO~mon
wilh-
oUI I~wful
authorilY Sec
L A
11',
lilk
2~,
E1ENHOVfN, a10ll'Dof DUlch Drabaol, fiCleen miles
fOlllh of Boifleduc,
EIFIELD, or [ LFIELD, a tOIVn of lower Saxo!}y,
fi ){
mib north-wea of
~l entz,
E1GHT, or
P IF. ~F.
OFEICH T. Sce MONEY,
EIMB ECK, a IGwn of lower Saxony. belonging te. Ihe
e1,l1or of ¡hnover, twenry-r,ve Aliles foulh of Hilde–
fh eiln,
EISLEIlEA, a Inwn 0f Upper Saxony, 6ve miles eafl
of
M~nsfielJ,
relllarkablc for being the birth'place of
LUlher.
ELJEAGNUS, DU TCH MYRTLE, in bOlany, a genus
of Ihe terrandria-monogyoia cla[s,
Ir
has nocorolla;
Ihe cah is bell- Olaped above the fluil. and has four
fegmenrs; and Ihe drupa is bell-/hap,d, and belowthe
"Iix, There are threefpeClCI, none qf Ihemnalives
of Bril,in,
ELJEOTHESlUM, in anriquilY, Ihe anoinliog room,
or place \Vhere Iho[e who \Vere 10 wrefile, or haJ bath–
ed, anoinled Ihem[e!ves, See GV MN ASlUM ,
ELAPHEBOLIUM, in Grecian antiquilY, the ninlh
month
of
Ihe Alhenian year, , n[wering lO Ihe Imer
pan
of Febru3fJ and beginning of March,
Ir
con–
fiaed of Ihirtydays. and look ils name from Ihe feai–
val elaphebolia, kepl in Ihis monlh, in honour of Di–
anJ the hunlre[s; on whieh occafion,
a
cake made iD
Ihe form of a deer, was
ofT~red
10 her,
ELASMIS, innalural hinory, a genlls of lales, compo–
fed of fmall plales in form of [pangles; and eilher fin–
gle, and nOI fartherfillile ; or, if complex, only /illile
10
a
cemin degree, and Ihat ·in fomewhat Ihick lami–
n:!',
Of Ihe[elales there are [cl'm l varielies, (ome with
hrge and olhers with [mall [panglC!, which differ al[o
in colour and olher pecu liarilics,
ELAST1C, in nalural philo[ophy, an appelldtion given.–
to all bodies endowed with Ihe properry of elallieity,
See Ihe nexl anicle.
ELA~T[C1TY,.
or EI.ASTl CFORCE, thal propmy
of
bodtes wherewtth lhey reO ore liI,mfel«s to Iheir for–
Oler
figure,
afler any cXlernal prelfure. See MEC HA–
NI
C
s,
ELATER, in zoology. a genus of in[,{ts
belon~ing
10
Ihe order of
coleopl~ra,
The fedm are ftraceous,
Therc are,
38
[p:cies, diainsuiOld by Iheir colour,
Óc.
ELATEIUUM, in pharmac)', importS, in general, any
pllrging meJicine; bUI is
l>.Irti~uIJrI)'
.lpp::eJ lOthofe
whi~h
Clpefdte with violence.
ILATrNE,
in bOlany••
~tnu<
of Ihe olldndria.lelra_
~l'nia
cI,I[!, Tile cali,x cunfilh of fOllr i,."e,. and the
corolla of four pel,tls; Ih, " pfule has fuur cells and
2
l II
ioll.&