

A BUM 



_ Tk.ofi.fu . 

 of Uw Aar. 40 mile. K.K. from 

 hccan. of silk, cotton. 

 la UM Rhine, which 



T Uw Hv*. A bridf* h*w 



Hapamn. which U Uw original seat ol 

 ;*i.4 Bain. wWeh has warm bath, and 



district* into which Aargm.i ' 



Uwwsf-sri* 



*!**. B*oh of Uw 



AAKHUUH. a nrotiM* o*ttw swt coast of Jutland, eontalninglM7 



-L-UU -uU. iron UHirlirrM- T^ 1 ' |~ Tiw ooast is 



l?ln'- J *T ' " r The .nrtao*, which in tb interior is 



Ml*, is wry fcrtfl., yWdln*; fa* paatar*. a large surplus of com, 

 tanum. ai. swam k*. Homed cattle and sheep ar* numerous. 

 VfcfcBf is Uw ofcWf oocwpatfcw ak*f Uw coast. Th* export* comprise 

 eon. wool. hotM*. hi eatU*. butter, pork, hooey, wax, Ac, Am****, 



ht eattfe. batter, pork, bonrv. wax. 



taSfl.'NUi long., between Uw 



- Th* town is 



prHty wWl IK.JU and contain** lane cathedral church; the manu- 



CS- ^.lu^Tu nf 10 ^ m & r -'" Dia * * * " 



. , 



number of inhabitant* u about 



Meee ana MMJWT. IB* snnnow w HUWUIHUIU i uu,i> 

 M*m pr/ rsnferiy to Kallundborg hi Uw island of Zealand. 

 I miW X.X. W. of Aorhutis, on Uw Uudrn. a small navigable 

 bsto Uw KatUgat, has about 7000 inhabitanU, shi|- 

 of glove*, stookings, and brandy. 



ABABDK. th* nan* of ****r*l African tribe*, which occupy the 

 i Uw HIM Mid Uw Red flea, sooth of Koieeir, Marly a* 

 .W of Oerr. *T 47'. The Bisharye inhabit the monn- 

 w* mUr*r4a. Many of Uw Ababd* have settled in 

 , oa Uw ***t hank of Uw Nile, from Kraneh to Assouan, 

 Itatr. Aeoor-Hn*; to Betonni, some of them ar* spread 

 m *sr M rV. Bnt Uw gnt*r part -till lire like Bedouins, and act 

 a* rokb. to Uw fetmaar caravans which set out from Daraou, a plaoe 

 dbwl * near.* toorswy north of Assouan. The Ababd* formerly 

 fmt^t* Uw earavma* from Knuwh to Kossrir, on the Red Sea; but 

 tWv hav, tm Asprir^l , .f th.. branch of profit by th* Maura and 

 Aae*jy Arab*, who live to Uw north, and Bum th* profit* of this line 

 efnikifrWUwPMlM. 



Tk* Ababd* bar* eetwidarabl* iwwperty. but a very bad oharaetor; 

 Uwy ar* d**erib*d a* DUthI***, and unworthy of the Bedouin origin of 



TW* ncofl* ar* known In Upper Kgypt for their neellent camels. 

 Md panlrqUHv tor Uwir dMrnedarwo. Tb*y trade principally in 

 MSB* Uaraa. and lsrni*l mad* of acacia wood, which U sent a* far 

 tCJra TWAhaM. hsv. few horse, ; UMT ftgbt with other Arab 



TWy rTdJvfcW fasto thra. prt^paMribe.^ Pokara, El Ashabat, 



TVM* wke tm*T with Uw Btshure sneak th* lanfuan of the 

 k*H**. TW SSMH *nitl of Uw AWbd* and Jaafere Arab*. M 

 sMJMr i^lUUwin. who inhabit tlwwMt bank of th. 



f TWtMa, a* nw the ftm 



a* well an the female children 



f Uw Mb Mik of KM*I awl ROM, to Uw borte* of 8*onaar, 

 I Hi 4* |iillinofi*V)B.WBiohwaanoMKgyptianoujtoin. 



10 1 tin mrab, p. Ht, Cs... Th. Ababd* fight Bak*d, except 

 i Okry W.T, . raf er nankin rouud thrfr waista. A fight which 



Tk- 



wtth a iboww of itocwa, for Uw repelling 

 rfuL The combatant* 

 ww*,thr* men slightly 



niM I* turn BmtUwrdt's "Travd* in Nubia' (London, 

 * at>jars. from this and oUwr l**rs, to consider Uw 

 . a* af Arab *tok | bt tf Ud* b. hi* nwatung. it *Mm* to b. 



ay that Uw Ababd*, who ar* of the same 

 ..Ikboun, Uw Hri.ar~ diflVr In . PP ^ 



who* w. haw of 

 m W*b*ar no mor* 

 ^ *7P, but Uwy app*u> 



_ of Beis, a* the great carriers between the Nile and Aidab on 

 Uw Red Sea, and, in fact, a* a commercial people. The Bisharye, 

 Uw Ababde. Barabras, Ac., may be considered a* different branches 

 of Uw Beta stock. [ BEJ reasons Herodotus had for calling 



Uw camel-riding people eouth of Egypt by the name of Arab* it is 

 difficult to say ; only we may observe, that Arabia, properly so called, 

 was then very little known ; and the word Arab* would be applied 

 vaguely, and perhaps sometimes incorrectly, to many people who lead 

 a nomadic life. 



(BelaonTi Kanrekn, 4to. ; Ritter's Gtoyrajtky, A/, 



ABACO, one of the numerous islands which form the At 

 group of the BAHAMAS. It lies near the coast of Florida, ami is a long 

 crooked inland, about 80 miles in length, by 15 miles in average breadth. 

 A much smaller island, called little Abaco, is separated from it by a 

 narrow strait Tha two islands together lie between 26 and .' 



and 78 W. long. On the two islands are obou- 

 bitanU, many of whom are white Creole*; they occupy four 

 menu, and are engaged hi ship-building, fishing, turtling, and in aiding 

 vassBli in distress. (Parliamentary Paper*.) 



ABBEVILLE, a town in France, formerly capital of the county of 

 Ponthieu, in Picardy, now of the arrondissement of Abbeville, in the 

 department of Somme, is situated in a fertile and pr >n the 



river Somme, in 50' "' N. lat, 1" 50' E. long., 120 miles by railroad 

 N. by Vf. from Paris, 50 mile* S. by E. from Boulogne, and 27 miles 

 N.\V" from Amiens. The town is surrounded by walla and ramparts, 

 and entered by five gates, one of which opens on a fine public walk 

 along the river. Round a cantle, erected in 992 to check the inroads 

 of the Northmen, a town soon sprung up, and the place became the 

 residence of the Counts of Ponthieu, from one of whom, in the 1'Jth 

 century, it obtained a charter with the privilege of coining 1110; 



The town is built on'on island in . ami on both banks of 



the river. Three other small streams traverse the town, and dm i lie 

 machinery of several mills and factories. The street*, with the 

 tioii of throe or four, ore narrow and ill-paved. The house* nrc 

 built of brick. There are, however, H few remarkable old woxxlen 

 bonnes. The Hotel de V Europe and the foundling hospital, near the 

 Amiens-gate, the cavalry barracks, the town-hiil). the public library, 

 which contains 18,000 volumes and some valuable manuscript*, the 

 cloth factory established by Colbert, ami the remains of an abbey in 

 the Hue Berbafust, in which some of the works of St. August in were 

 printed in 1486, the theatre, and the market-place. Ing of 



notice. But the grandest structure in tl 

 Vulfran, which U remarkable for its richly-ornament. 

 by three deep portals, and surmounted by three got 



Abbeville is an Important manufacturing town. The chief industrial 

 ts are fine woollen cloth, velveteens, calicoes, muslin*, check*. 

 printed cottons, linen, serge, canvas*, carpet*, h . llcry, glass- 



ware, ropes, laces, chemical product*, soap, glue, door locks, Ac,* There 

 are several bleach-works, dye-houses, tan > mills, nnd boat- 



building-yards. The facility of commun' 



great roads which meet in the town, and by the river, which. ': 

 , enable* vowels of 150 tons to rcai h the ipm-. 



, 



onmniercial importance of Abln-villi'. The trade in the product* already 

 named, and in corn, seeds, win... brandy, cider, oil, groceries, ) 

 wool. Rax, Ac., I* very considerable. 



At a conference between St Louis ami Henry III., held at 

 ville.in 1242, a treaty was concluded by whieh Ouien^ 

 England. The marriage of Mary Tiidor, ninter of H \ : 



Louis XII. of France, took place at Abbeville, October 9, 1614. 



AIIIIKV llnl. Ml'.. |<YMnrur.AM>.] 



AHUKVI.KIX. ' iiity, Ireland, a post- and market-town, 



ati'I the seat of a Poor-Law Union, in the parish of Abbeyleix, and 

 barony of Cullenagh, is situated noar the left bank of tin 

 in 82' &f N. hit, 7* 20' W. long., distant 59 miles S.A\ iin l,y 



road. Monntrath station of 1 1, it hem and Western Railway, 



which in <!(! miles from Dublin, in about 7 miles from Abb. 

 The population of Ahbeyleix town, in 1851, was 1" I 

 the union workhouse. Abbeyleix Poor-law marines 22 



electoral divisions, with an area of 107,106 acres, and a population, in 

 1841, of 88,816; in 1851 



The town, or rather large rilln^e, consists of one Inng utrect, lined 

 with well-built houses, and extending along the old coach-rood leading 

 from Durrow to Maryborough and Dublin. The present towi 

 its origin toward* the close of last century, on the decay of on ai 

 village of the same name. The houses generally have gardens attached, 

 and the place ha* an air of rustic neatness. There are here a pnrish 

 church, erected in 1880; an Episcopal c!m|>cl, occasionally 



- for Baptists and Roman Catholics ; a parochial school, a 

 Hibernian Society's school, a school of industry for girls, an infant 

 school, and a savings bank. There is a small woollen manufn 

 furnishes water-power for extensive lloni 

 ;nt de Vesci's demesne of Abbeyleix, which adjoins the < 

 comprises an area of about 700 acres, well laid out, and adorned with 

 venerable trees. The mansion, erect cd in 1774, is a handsom 

 commodious quadrangular building, four stories high, and faced with 







ABB1TIBBE, one of the district* into which the Hudson's Bny 



