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Population (1891), 8,097. Exmouth, Viscount. See Pellew. Exodus (ek'sō-dus). [Gr. έξοδος, from ἐξ, out, and ὁδός, a way.] The second book of the Old Testament. It takes its name from the deliverance (which it describes) of the Israeli tes from their bondage under the Pharaohs, and their departure from Egypt. Exploits (eks-ploits') River. The largest river in Newfoundland. It has a northeasterly course, and falls into the Bay of Exploits, in Notre Dame Bay. Length, 200 miles. Expounder of the Constitution. An epithet popularly applied to Daniel Webster. Expunging Resolution. A resolution introduced into the United States Senate by T. H. Benton of Mi ouri, to erase from the journal the censure pa ed by the Senate on President Jackson, March 28, 1834, relating to the bank controversy. It was first introduced in 1834, and was carried Jan. 16, 1837. Exterminator, The. [Sp. El Exterminador .] A surname of Montbars, a French adventurer. See Montbars . Exton (eks'ton), Sir Pierce of. A minor character in Shakspere's "King Richard II." Exumas (eks-ö'mäz). A group of islands centrally situated in the Bahamas. The Great Exuma has a fine harbor. Population, about 2,300. Eyam (ē'am ori'am I'am). A village in Derby shire, England, southeast of Cast let on. Its population was nearly exterminated in the plague of 1665 1666. Eyck (ik), Hubert van. Born at Maaseyck, near Liège, in 1366: died at Ghent, Flanders, Sept. 18, 1426. A noted Flemish painter. Eyck, Jan van. Born at Maaseyck about 1386: died at Bruges, Flanders, July 9, 1440. A Flemish painter, brother of Hubert van Eyck, and court painter of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. Ezzelino Eyck, Margarete van. Lived in the first part of the 15th century. A Flemish painter, sister of Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Eye (1). A town in Suffolk, England, 18 miles north of Ipswich. Population (1891), 2,064. Eye (i'e), Johann Ludolf August von. Born at Fürstenau, Hannover, May 24, 1825. A German art historian. His chief work is "Das Reich des Schönen" (1878). Eye mouth (i'mouth). A fishing town in Berwickshire, Scotland, 8 miles northwest of Berwick. Population (1891), 2,573. Eye of the Baltic. An epithet of the island of Gothland. Eylau (i'lou), or Pru ian Eylau. A town in the province of East Pru ia, Pru ia, 22 miles south-southeast of Königsberg. An indecisive battle was fought here Feb. 8, 1807, between the French (about 70,000) under Napoleon and the Ru ians and Pru ians (80,000) under Bennigsen and Lestocq. The lo of each side amounted to about 18,000. Population (1890), 3,446. Eyre (ar), Edward John. Born August, 1815: died Nov. 30, 1901. An English colonial governor. He explored Australia 1840-41, and was governor of Jamaica 1864–66. Eyre, Jane. See Jane Eyre . Eyre, Lake. [Named from the English traveler in Australia, Edward John Eyre.] A salt lake in South Australia, about lat. 28°-29° S., long. 137° E. Length, about 95 miles. Eyria (i'ri-a) Peninsula. A peninsula in South Australia, northwest of Spencer Gulf. Eyzaguirre (ay-thä-ger're), Agustin. Born at Santiago, 1766: died there, July 19, 1837. Chile an statesman. He was a member of the government junta in 1813. From 1814 to 1817 he was imprisoned by the Spaniards at Juan Fernandez. After the overthrow of O'Higgins (Jan., 1823), Eyzaguirre was a member of the temporary junta. Elected vice-president soon after, he was acting president Sept., 1826, to Jan., 1827, when he was deposed by a military mutiny. Ezekiel (e-zē'ki-el). [Heb., 'God will strengthen.'] Born in Palestine about 620 в. с.: died after 572 B. C. A Hebrew prophet, author of the book of Ezekiel. He was carried captive to Babylonia in 597, and commenced his career as a prophet in 594. Ezida (aʼzi-dä). [Akkadian e - zida , the eternal house.] The chief sanctuary of Nebo (Nabu), the A yro-Babylonian god of wisdom and literature (mentioned in Isa. xlvi. 1), in Borsippa, the modern mound of Birs Nimrud, not far from Babylon. The temple was constructed of seven platforms piled one on another, each square in shape and somewhat smaller than the preceding one. The top one served as an observatory. It is supposed that this towerlike structure, called in the inscriptions ziqqurat , is alluded to in the story of the "tower of Babel" in Genesis. Hero dot us gives a description of it, but considered it to be a sanctuary of Bel. Ezion-Geber (ē'zi-on-gēʼbėr), or Ezion-Gaber (ē'zi-on-gā'bėr). In scripture geography, a port on the Elanitic Gulf of the Red Sea. It was a rendezvous of the fleets of Solomon and Jehoshaphat. Ezra (ez'rä). [Heb., 'help'; Gr. Έσδρας .] Lived in the middle of the 5th century B. C. A Hebrew scribe and priest. He conducted an expedition from Babylon to Palestine about 458, and carried out important reforms at Jerusalem. To him have been ascribed the revision and editing of the earlier books of Scripture, the determination of the canon, and the authorship not only of the books that bear his name and that of Nehemiah, but also of the books of Chronicles and Esther. Ezzelino (et-ze-lēnō), or Eccelino (ā-che-lē'no), da Romano. Born at Onara, near Treviso, Italy, April 26,1194: died Sept., 1259. An Italian Ghibelline leader. The Century Cyclopedia of Names Jabel (fa'bel), Peter. A person, buried at Edmonton in the reign of Henry VII., around whom the tradition grew that he had sold his soul to the devil and then cheated him out of it. He was made the hero of the play "The Merry Devil of Edmonton." Faber (fä'ber), Basilius. [L. faber , smith.] Born at Sorau, Pru ia, 1520: died at Erfurt, Germany, probably in 1576. A German cla ical scholar, author of “Thesaurus erudition is scholastice" (1571), etc. Faber (fā'bėr), Frederick William. Born at Calverley, Yorkshire, England, June 28, 1814: died Sept. 26, 1863. An English hymn-writer. He was a clergyman of the Anglican Church until 1845, and afterward became a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A complete edition of his hymns was published in 1861. Faber, George Stanley. Born at Calverley, Yorkshire, Oct. 25, 1773: died near Durham, Jan. 27, 1854. An English divine and controversialist, uncle of F. W. Faber. He graduated at Oxford, and became a fellow and tutor of Lincoln College in 1793. He was succe ively curate of Calverley, Stock ton-upon-Tees, rector of Red marshall, rector of Long Newton, and master of Sherburn Hospital. He wrote "Horse Mosaicæ, etc." (1801), "A Di ertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri, etc. (1803), works on the prophecies, etc. Faber (fä'ber), Johann, surnamed Malleus Hæreticorum (L., 'hammer of heretics'). Born at Leutkirch, Würtemberg, 1478: died at Vienna, 1541. A German controversialist and opponent of the Reformation. Faber (fa'ber), John. Born at The Hague about 1660: died at Bristol, England, May, 1721. A Dutch mezzotint engraver, resident in Eng land after 1687 (?). Faber, John. Born 1695 (?): died at London, May 2, 1756. An English mezzotint engraver, a son of John Faber (1660-1721). Faber (fä-bar'), or Lefebvre (lė-favr'), Jacques, surnamed Stapulensis (from his birthplace). Born at Étaples, France, about 1450: died at Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, France, 1537. A French scholar and reformer, vicar (1523) of the Bishop of Meaux. He wrote commentaries on the works of Aristotle, and translated some of the books of the Bible into French (1523-30). Fabia gens (fa'bi-ä jenz). In ancient Rome, a patrician clan or house, probably of Sabine origin, which traced its descent from Hercules and the Arcadian Evander. Its family names under the republic were Ambustus, Buteo, Dorso, Labeo, Licinus, Maximus, Pictor, and Vibulanus.