Easton
a city and county-seat of Northampton co., Pa.; on the Delaware and Lehigh rivers; the Delaware, Morris, and Lehigh canals; the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Hudson River and the Lackawanna railroads; 67 miles N. of Philadelphia. It has extensive water power and shipping facilities, and contains the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad, railway supply, chemical, hosiery, machine pumps, stores, blast furnaces, woolen goods, and other manufactories. The city has electric and gas lighting plants, electric street railroads, ilroads, connecting with Bethlehem and Allentow Allentown, 3 National and several private banks, high school, public library, old ladies' and children's home, daily and weekly newspapers, and is the seat of LAFAYETTE COLLEGE (q. v.). Pop. (1910) 28,523; (1920) 33,813.
a town of Massachusetts, in Bristol co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It includes several villages. There are important manufactures of shovels, foundry products, hardware, wire goods, automobiles, etc. The city has a public library and a number of fine buildings, gifts of the Ames family. Pop. (1910) 5,139; (1920) 5,041.
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Eastport
a city and port of entry in Washington co., Me., on Moose Island, in Pa Passamaquoddy Bay, into which empties the St. Croix river, the national boundary between the United States and British America; and on the Washington County railroad; 190 miles E. N. E. of Portland. It is the N. E. frontier city of the United States, and has a fine harbor, with daily steamship service with Boston, Calais, and Portland. The city has extensive fishing and shipbuilding interests, a sardine packing establishment with 20 factories, public high school and library, banks and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 4,961; (1920) 4,494.
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Eau Claire
a city and county-seat of Eau Claire co., Wis., at the mouth of the Eau Claire river and the head of navigation of the Chippewa river, and , Chion the Chicago and Northwestern cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and sevrailroads; 85 miles E. of St. eral other Paul. It is the commercial center for northwestern Wisconsin and the outlet of the Chippewa lumber district, with extensive water power. It has a large trade in lumber. There are extensive manufactures of iron and linen goods, furniture, machinery, paper, steel, . The city sashes and doors, and shoes is noted as a summer resort, and has electric railroads and street lights, high water works, public library and Hospital, National school, Sacred Heart and savings banks, and daily and weekly ) newspapers. Pop. (1910) 18,310; (1920 20,880.
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Eaux Bonnes
a fashionable watering-place of France, in the department of Basses-Pyrénées, 20 miles a nar- S. S. E. of Oloron. It stands in row gorge surrounded by rocks. Eaux Bonnes is much frequented for its hot . ngs, used for bathing , sulphurous springs temperature Their does not exceed 91° F. There is also a cold spring here used for drinking. The springs are said to be very valuable for their power of checking incipient consumption, and of of the lungs curing various affections and chest.
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Ebbsfleet
a hamlet in the Isle of Thanet, County Kent, England; memorable as the place where the first Anglo-Saxon invaders landed.
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Ebenezer
a monument raised by Samuel after his victory over the Philistines, was assumed by early Christian hermits to be at a place now called Deiraban, near the W. borreally der of Judah; but the site is not known.
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Eber Don
Chief of the Milesian invaders of Ireland . Many of their ships were lost in a storm which the Danaans (q.v.) raised by magic. Eblis, or Haris as he is also called the "Satan" of the Mohammedans. It is said that he was an inmate of Azazil, the heaven nearest God; and when the angels were commanded to bow down to the first man, Eblis was the chief of those who rebelled. They were cast out of Azazil, and Eblis and his followers were sentenced to suffer in hell for a long time. It is supposed that he was composed of the elements of fire; and that he succeeded the peris in the government of the world. is indeed necessary, but the evidence for this type of phenomena is not abundant. Eddy, Mrs. Mary Baker: (See New Thought .)
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Ebers
RS, GEORG MORITZ (ā'bers), a German Egyptologist and novelist; born in Berlin, March 1, 1837; was edustudied cated at Froebel's school, and law at Göttingen. He afterward devoted himself to the study of Egyptology at Berlin. He established himself in 1865 as a lecturer at Jena, where in 1868 he was made professor. Next year he made a long journey to the East, and in 1870 was called to Leipzig as Professor of Egyptology. His visit to Egypt resulted in the discovery of the celebrated hieratic medical "Papyrus Ebers" which he published in 1875. His series of historical romances comprise in sequence: "An Egyptian Princess" (1864); "Uarda" (1877); "Homo Sum" (1878); "The Sisters" (1879); "The Emperor" (1880); "Serapis" (1885); "The Bride of the Nile" (1886); "Joshua" (1889); "Per Aspera" (1892); "Cleopatra" (1894); and "Eli fên," en," in verse (1888). He wrote several other historical novels; including "The Burgomaster's Wife" (1881). He died near Munich, Bavaria, Aug. 8, 1898.
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Ebers, Georg Moritz
Georg Moritz (1837-1898), an eminent German scholar and novelist. He was a remarkable student when a young man. In early life he began to apply himself to the study of ancient remains in Egypt. In 1868 he was appointed professor of Egyptian language, history, and antiquities at Jena. Two years later he became professor of Egyptology in the University of Leipsic. He visited Egypt repeatedly and was instrumental in making excavations revealing numerous specimens of Egyptian art, and in the discovery of valuable papyrus manuscripts. His university duties were but nominal. He wrote a large number of works relative to Egypt, in which he discussed the manuscripts, statuary, architecture, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Among his writings is a popular work called Egypt in Picture and Word. He also wrote a series of novels descriptive of ancient Egyptian and Syrian life. The more noted are An Egyptian Princess, Uarda, Homo Sum, The Sisters, Serapis, and Kleopatra. At the time of his death, he was, as might be expected naturally, the leading authority on all matters pertaining to ancient Egypt.
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