ESNEH

a town of Upper Egypt, on the left bank of the Nile, 28 miles 8.S.w. of Thebes, on the site of the ancient Latopolis, now easily reached by railway and river. Among the ruins there isa beautiful portico of twenty four lofty and ma ive_ columns, belonging to a temple of Kneph (the only portion of the temple cleared out), and erected in the Ptolemaic and Roman period, with a zodiac on the ceiling. Esneh has a carayan trade, manufactures cottons and pottery, and is very healthy. There is an irrigation barrage here. Pop. 16,000. i ESPERANTO ESOC’IDA, the family of fishes to which the true pike (Hsox lucius) belongs, as also the much larger maskinongy (H. nobilior) of America. ESPAL ‘IER, in gardening, a sort of trelliswork on which the branches of fruit trees or bushes are extended horizontally, with the object of securing for the plant a freer circulation of air as well as a full exposure to the sun. Trees thus trained are not subjected to such marked nor so rapid variations of temperature as wall trees.