EL'WOOD. A city in Madison County, Ltd., 45 miles north by east of Indianapolis; on the Lake Erie and Western, and the Pittsburg, Cin cinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis railroads (Map: Indiana, D 2). It is in the'natural-gas belt, car ries on a considerable trade in live stock, grain, and produce, and has large tin-plate mills, iron works, saw and planing mills, brickyards, flour mills, and extensive manufactures of plate and window-glass, lamp-ehimneys. etc. The city maintains a public library. Population, in 1890, 2284; in 1900, 12,950.
ELY, elf. A city of Cambridgeshire. England, situated on rising ground near the Ouse, on the Isle of Ely. in the fen eountry (Map: England, 4). The city consists of a single long street, re taining several medieval dwelling-houses. It derives its celebrity from its ecclesiastical archi tecture: the ancient churches of Saint Mary and of the Holy Trinity, the Episcopal Palace of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, remains of conventual establishments, and, above all, the cathedral, one of the largest in England, begun in 1083, completed in 1534, and restored since 1847. It presents an interesting mixture of Saxon, Nor man, and Early English architectural types. The interior dimensions are: length. 530 feet : breadth, 77 feet, height, 62 feet: length of tran septs, ISO feet. Its principal features are the decorated octagon and lantern tower, 170 feet high, built between 1322 and 1342, and the only Gothic dome extant : the late Norman nave; the English 'Galilee' or Western porch; the decorated lady ehapel: and the choir, with its fine carvings and seulplures. Extensive market gardening is
parried on in the neighborhood of Ely for the metropolitan and Cambridge markets, and the manufacture of pottery and pipes engages the attention of a few of the inhabitants. Ethel dreda, (laughter of Anna, King of East :\nglia, founded a monastery here about Al). 673. In 8711 the ravaged the Isle of Ely and destroyed the monastery, which was rebuilt in 970 by Saint Ethel wold, Bishop of \Vim ehester, This remained till 1083, when the new church was begun, which was converted into the cathedral and the abbey ereeted into a see in 1109, Ely was rue of the last strongholds of the Saxons after the Conquest, and was the 'camp of refuge' of ilereward in 1071. Among the eeleb cities connected with Ely are Abbot Thurston, who, with llereward, defended the Isle against William the Conqueror; Longchamps, Chancellor and Regent under Richard 1.; Simon Patrick, and Bishop Andrews. Population, in 1901, 7700. Consult: Stewart, Architecture/ History of Ely Ca thcdra/ ( London, 1868) ; Murray, Eastern Ca thedrals (London, 1881).