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ABA 



from Tobolflc, famous for an image of the Virgin Marj', to 

 which many pilgrims rcfort, and wliich is annually carried 

 in procelTion to Tobollk. I'",, long. 68° 20'. N. lat. 58"^ 11'. 



ABALIENATION, from ab and n/irnatr, to alienate, 

 ill the Roman Laiv, denotes a fpecics of alienation ; where- 

 by thofe goods called res nuDuipi, fuch as cattle, flaves, 

 lands, and pofieffions, within the territory of Italy, were 

 transferred to perfons legally capable thereof, either by 

 t formula, called tradltlo nexu, or a furrcnder in open court. 



ADALIENATUS, nlien.jted from, a medical term, 

 which, when applied to the body, lignifies that the part fo 

 fpoken of, is in a ftate that requires amputation : and when 

 applied to the fenfes, denotes their total deftruftion. 



ABALITES. See Avalites. 



ABALLAT5A,in Gcofra/iAv, the ancien: name oi ylpplchx. 

 a town in Wcftmoreland, remarkable only for having been 

 a Roman ftation. V/. long. 1° 4'. N. lat. SS° 38'. 



ABALUS, an ifland, as the ancients fuppofed, in 

 the German ocean, called by Timaeiis Bajd'ia, and by 

 Xcnophon Lampfacenus Balt'ia, now the penir.fula of 

 Scandinavia. Amber, according to Pliny, (Hill. Nat. 

 torn. ii. p. 770. ed. Hard.) was thrown on the fliores of 

 this ifland by the waves of the fea ; and he reports, that 

 fome perfons thought this fubllance dropped from the trees 

 in the adjacent mountains. 



ABAN la Ville, a town in the bailiwick of Quingey, 

 fituate between the town of that name and I^ieu Dieu, in 

 Franche Comte. E. long. 6'^ 15'. N. lat. 47° 10'. 



ABANA, a river of Phoenicia, which riling from Mount 

 Hermon, walhed the fouth and weft fides of Damafcus, and 

 fell into the Phoenician fea to the north of Tripolis. The 

 Abana was one branch of the Barrady, called by the 

 Greeks Chryforrhoeas. This river is mentioned by Naaman, 

 2 Kings, V. 12. 



ABANGA. See Ady. 



ABANO, a village near Padua, in Italy, famous for its 

 warm baths. In one of thefe baths the patients are covered 

 with the warm mud. E. long. 10° 47'. N. lat. 45° 30'. 



ABANTES, in Ar.clent Hijlory, a -warhke people who 

 came originally from Thrace, and fettled in Phocis, a 

 country of Greece, where they built a town, called Aba, 

 after the name of their leader. Some ancient authors fay, 

 that the Abantes afterwards fettled in the ifland Eubaa, now 

 called Negropont : others fay thefe Abantes came from Athens. 

 Thefe people are called by Homer (II. 1. ii. v. 542.) onriSsn 

 Koixwilt;, from wearing their long hair behind. They '.vere 

 called Curetes from their cutting it (hort before. 



ABANTIA, or Abantis, m Ancient Geography, a name 

 given to the ifland Eubosa, in the Egean Sea ; extendmg 

 along the coaft of Greece, from the promontory Suniura of 

 Attica to Thefialy, and feparated from Boeotia by a narrow 

 ftrait called £«ri/>uj-. It derived its name from the Abantes, 

 according to Slrabo, torn. ii. p. 682. Others fay, that the 

 inhabitants were called Abantes, from Abas their leader, who 

 firft reigned in the ifland ; and Reineccius fuppofesthat they 

 were Arabians, who followed Cadmus into Euboea, and 

 fettled there. 



ABAPTISTA, or Abaptiston, in Surgery, derived 

 from the privative a. and /Jxwtw, to plunge ; the fhoulder 

 of a trepanning inftrument. This term is employed by 

 Galen, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Scultetiis, and others, 

 to denote the conical faw with a circular edge (othei"wife 

 •called MODIOLUS or tereera), which was formerly ufed 

 by furgeons to perforate the cranium. Modern prafti- 

 tioners, however, have ufually preferred the cylindrical 

 form. Various contrivances are recommended, to avoid the 

 danger that may arife from want of dexterity in the opera- 

 tion of trepanning, and a new inftrument has been lately 



delineated for this purpofe, by Mr. Rodman of Paiflcy j 

 (Philofopliical Magazine for April 1800;) but as no inven- 

 tion can compenfate for a defcdl of i1<ill in the furgeon, 

 thefe precautions are not in general attended to. For a 

 more particular account of this inftrument, fecTRKPAN and 

 Trephink. 



ABARA, in Geography, a town in the greater Armenia, 

 under the dominion of the Turks. E. long. 46*^ ij'. N. 

 lat. 39° 45'. 



ABARANER, a town of Turcomania, in Afia, fituated 

 on the river Alingena, and twenty miles north of Nakfivan. 

 It is faid that 300 Roman Catholics refide here. E. long. 

 46° 30'. N. lat. 39° 50'. 



ABA RCA, an ancient kind of flioe ufed in Spain to pafs 

 the mountains, made of raw hides, and boimd with cords, 

 which fecured them againil the fnow. 



ABARIM, in Scripture Geography, a ridge of high 

 mountains fituate between the rivers Arnon and Jordan, 

 and nearly oppofite to Jericho, in the land of Canaan. 

 Nebo and Pifgah, which were fuppofed to have been the 

 fame mountain, formed a part of this extenfive range of 

 fteep hills. Here the Ifraelites encamped for the laft time 

 but one before they palled over Jordan into the promifed 

 land. The name Abarim was applied to part of tliis ridge 

 of mountains in the time of Eufebius and Jerome. WcUh's 

 Geog. of the O. Teft. vol. ii. p. 152, &c. 



ABARIMON, in Ancient Geography, a valley of Scythia, 

 at the foot of Mount Imaus, the inhabitants of which, 

 according to Pliny, (Hift. Nat. torn. i. p. 370.) were 

 Anthropophagi, little fuperior in their habits and man- 

 ners to the wild beafts with which they aflbciated. Their 

 feet were turned backwards, and yet they were veiy fwift. 



ABA R IS, in Biography, the famous Hyperborean Sage, 

 who is faid to have been the difciple and friend of Pytha- 

 goras, and to have performed a great number of lingular ex- 

 ploits. His hiftci-y is fo fabulous, that Herodotus contents 

 hinifelf with relating (lib. iv. cap. xxxvi. p. 296. ed. Weffel. ) 

 that he travelled through the world on an arrow, without 

 any fuftenance. Harpocration (art. AiSapi,-) informs us, 

 that he was fent by his countrymen as an ambaffaJor to 

 Athens, in conformity to an order of Apollo, who being 

 confulted at the time of a deftruftive plague that generally 

 prevailed, replied, that the Athenians fliould offer up 

 prayers on behalf of all other nations ; on this occaiion, as 

 we learn from Diodorus Siculus, (lib. ii. c. xlvii. p. 159. 

 ed. Weffel.) he renewed the friendfliip and intercom le be- 

 tween his countiymen and the people of Delos, which had 

 been interrupted. He alfo vifited Laced^mon ; where fome 

 writers fay, as we are informed by Paufanias, (lib. iii. 

 cap. xiii. p. 238. ed. Kuhnii,) he built a temple confe- 

 crated to Proferpine the Salutary. Abarls performed this 

 long voyage with eafe and expedition, being tianfpoited 

 through the air, over rivers, fcas, and mountains, on an 

 enchanted arrow, which, fays Jamblichus, (Vit. Pythag. 

 p. 118.) he had received as a prcfeiit from Apollo. Some 

 have fuggefted that this arrow denoted his fliill in aftronomy, 

 by which he diretled his courfe. He is faid by Strabo 

 (lib. vii. tom. i. p. 462.) to have gained the efteem of the 

 learned men of Greece by his politenefs, eloquence, and 

 wifdom. He particularly excelled, fays Jambhchus, (cap. 

 xix. p. 131.) in the arts of magic and divination, of which 

 lie exhibited the moft illuftrious proofs in all the countries 

 through which he travelled. He adds, that he was taught 

 by Pythagoras to find out all tnitli by the fcience of arith- 

 metic. Poqihyr)' ( Vit. Pythag. ) informs us, that he was 

 capable of foretelling earthquakes, driving away plagues, 

 laying ftorms, &c. Aharis, fays Bayle, conllnicled- the 

 famous palladium of the bones of Pelops, and fold it to the 



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