Elba
a small island belonging to the Kingdom of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Tuscany, and with several much smaller isles, lying at the mouth of the Gulf of Piombino. The island of Elba is 18 miles from E. to W., with a width varying from 22 to 12 miles in its widest part. The mountainous districts of the island yield quantities of superior iron, marble, loadstones, and alum, besides wines and fruits. On a residence Elba was assigned to him as a and empire. Here he accordingly took up his residence, in the month of May; and on Feb. 26, 1815, he secretly left the island, and, landing in France, began that brief and final career known in his- tory as the Hundred Days. Elba was a place of celebrity in the time of the Romans, and famed then, as now, for its yield of iron. Pop. about 25,500.
ELBE (el'be), a river of Germany, one of the largest in Europe. It rises or Snowcap, one of the Riesengebirge, point it flows nearly due S. into Bohemia between Bohemia and Silesia. From this for about 50 miles, when it turns to the W., and after about 40 miles takes a general N. N. W. direction till it falls into eral N. N. W. direction till it falls into considerable portion of Prussia, and in the latter part of its course separating Holstein on its right from Hanover on the left. The length, including windings, is upward of 780 miles. The Elbe is stocked with fine fish.
It is on the ings, is upward of 780 miles. The Elbe is stocked with fine fish. county-seat of Elbert co. railroads. The city is the center of the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern cotton factory, cottonseed-oil mill, fertilcotton-growing region and contains a cotton-growing region and contains a public library. Pop. (1910) 6,483; ELBING