Esselen

See Eslen. E elenian (es-se-lē'ni-an). A linguistic stock of North American Indians which formerly inhabited about 20 villages on a narrow strip of the coast of California, from Point El Sur southward about 30 miles to the vicinity of Santa Lucia Mountain. The stock comprised but a single tribe, the Eslen, of which two women were the only known survivors in 1888. E en (es's en). A city in the Rhine Province, Pru ia, near the Ruhr 19 miles northeast of Dü eldorf. It is the center of a large coal-mining dis. trict, and contains the famous Krupp cast-steel works. Its Münsterkirche, consecrated in 873, is one of the oldest of German churches. There is a western choir, which is octagonal like the similar feature at Aix-la-Chapelle, and there is an 11th-century eastern crypt. The Pointed nave and choir are of 1316. The early-Romanesque cloister is noteworthy. Population (1900), 118,863. E en, Count Hans Henrik. Born at Kafvelås, West Gothland, Sweden, Sept. 26, 1755: died at Uddewalla, Sweden, June 28, 1824. A Swedish field-marshal. He defended Stralsund against the French in 1807, and was governor of Norway 1814 1816. IMG:content-0475.png:[blocks in formation]