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ADR 



on the declivity of a hill, on the weft fide of a fmall plain, 

 fnrrounded evt;ry where by mountains. Its name llg- 

 nifying /><?/" or pqffhge, is derived from its fituation, on tlie 

 flnl f^round inimedip.tely bt'low the river Ribieraiiii, by 

 which every body mull pafs in their way from Gondar to 

 the Red Sea. This plain is watered by three rivnlets, 

 which are never dry, viz. the AfTa, Mai Cogue, and Ri- 

 hieraini, which joins the other two, and falls into the river 

 JMiueb, about twenty-two miles below Adowa. This town, 

 ivhich js now the capital and rclideuce of the governor, 

 ronliils of about 300 hcufes, each of which has an inclo- 

 fure round it of hedges and trees. The manfion o'f llie 

 jfovernor is fituated upon the top of a hill, and is a kind of 

 prifon, inhabited by about 300 perfons who arc detained in 

 irons, and in cages like wild beafts, fome of whom have 

 been confined for more than twenty years, with a view of 

 extorting money from them, .and who do not obtain libera- 

 tion, even when the money is paid. There are two 

 churches in the vicinity of this town, viz. Mariam and Ke- 

 dus Michael, and alfo a monallen-, called Bet Abba Gari- 

 ma, one of the moil celebrated in Abylllnia, which was once 

 a rcfidence of one of their kings, whence fome travellers 

 have reported that the metropohs of Abyifiuia was called 

 Gernic. Adowa is the feat of a tery valuable manufa£lorj' 

 of coarfe cotton cloth, wh.ich circulates through Abyfllnia 

 inllead of filver money: each web is 16 peek long, and 

 1 1 wide, and their value is a pataka, ;'. c. ten for the 

 ounce of gold. The houfes in this toavn a-re all built with 

 rough ftone, cemented with mud inllead of mortar ; their 

 roufs are of a conical form and thatched with a reedy fort of 



frals. Tlie bufmefs of thatching belongs exclufively to the 

 'alalha or Jews. The vicinity of Adowa is the only part 

 of Tigrc which has foil fufficient to yield corn, the whole 

 of the provir.ce belldes being one entire rock. Tliey have 

 here three harvells annually, which eolls no fallowing, weed- 

 ing, manure, or other expenfive procefs ; and yet the tarmer 

 in Abyfhnia is always poor and miferable. N. lat. 14^. 7'. 

 57". E. long. 38^^. 50'. Bruce's Travels, vol. iii. p. iiS. 

 &c. 



ADOXA, formed of « pr'n<. and cfo|« gloria, q. d. 

 ign'.ik, or of no Jhozv, in Bolniiy, a genus of the vclanjria 

 te/ragyiiia clafs and order, and of the natural order of J'uc- 

 culenU, and fuxlfragre of JulTieu ; the charaCteis of whicli 

 are, that the calyx is an inferior, bifid or trifid, flat and 

 permanent perianthium ( the corolla is ir.onopetalous, flat and 

 divided into four or five fegmcnts, with clef.s ovate, acute 

 and longer than the calyx ; the ftamina are fubulate fila- 

 ments, of the length of the calyx, and the anthers roundifll ; 

 the pifl;ilh!m has a germ below the receptacle of the co- 

 rolla ; the ilylcs are fnnple, ereift, of the length of the fta- 

 mina, and permanent, and equal in numbcT to the clefts of 

 the corolla ; the fligmas are Jhnple ; tlie perieai-piimi is a 

 globofe be;!T, between the calyx and corolla, the calyx 

 being united below with liie berry, umbilicate and four or 

 live celled ; the feeds are folitai-y and comprefTcd. There 

 is one fpecies, viz. the A. uwfchatcUina, bulbous fumitory, 

 hollow root or tuberous mofcliatell, which grows naturally 

 hi ihady places and woods, as in Hampftead and Charl- 

 ton woods ; it is perennial, flowers in April and May, 

 and the feeds ripen in TvTay. The leaves vv'hich foon after 

 decay and tlie flowers fmell like muflc, on which account 

 it has heen fometimes called muji croiufoot. The roots 

 muft he planted after the leaves are decayed, under ihxubs, 

 for if they are expofed to the fun, they wiU not thrive. 

 Martyn's Miller's Dictionaiy. Smith's Flor. Urit. vol. i. 



P-432- 



ADPERCEPTION, ir. the Lcibniti^ian (lyle, denotes 

 Vol.. L 



the aft whereby the mind becomes confciovs to itfelf of a 



perception. 



AD PONDUS Om«/f/w,to the weight of the whole ; an 



abbreviation among Phyficinns, &c. fignifying, that the Lilt 

 prefcribed ingredient is to weigh as much as all the othei» 

 put together. 



ADPORINA, a furnanieof C^bele, under which fhe wat 

 acknowledged in one of her temples, creeled on a mountain 

 of difficult acerls, near JVrgamus. 



ADPRESSUS, in Botany, denotes contiguous, prcflcd 

 to, or laid to. 



ADPREST I-TAF. Sec Leaf. 



ADQjmSlTUS, in Uymc /IncienI I. aim ll'iilcrs of Mufu; 

 is ufed for the note, or chord, which the Greeks called 

 ^^f03■^Kfir!X>out>5.;. See DlAGR.\M. 



AD QL^OD Damnum, in Laiv, a writ directed to the 

 (lieriff, commanding him to inquire what hurt may bcfal 

 the king by granting a fair, or market, in any town or 

 place. 



The fame writ alfo ilTues for an inquiry to be made of 

 what the king, or other perfon, may f.ifler, by granting lands 

 in fee fimple to a convent, chapter, or other body politic ; 

 by rcafon fuch lands fall into mortmain. 



The writ yld quod ihimnum is alfo had for the turning and 

 changing of ancient highways ; wliich may not be done 

 without the king's licence obtained by this writ, or inqui- 

 filion found that Inch change will net be detrimental to the 

 public. Vaugh. Rep. 341. Ways turned without this 

 authority are not elleemed highways, fo as to oblige liic in- 

 habitants of the hundred to wake amends for robberies; 

 nor have the fubjefts an interell therein to juftify going 

 there. 3 Cro. 267. If any one change a highway with- 

 out this autliority, he may Hop the way at his plcafurc. 

 But fee the ilatute 8 and 9 \V. IIL cap. 16. for enlarging 

 of highways by order of jullice. of peace, Src. Where any 

 common way Ihall be enclofed after a writ of ylil quod diim- 

 mini executed, any perfon aggiieved by fuch enclofure, 

 may complain to the jullices at the next quarter fefTions ; 

 but if no fuch complaint or appeal be made, then the in- 

 quifition and return, recorded by the clerk of the peace, 

 Ihall be for ever binding. 8 and 9 W. III. 



ADRA, or Adraa, in jlncient Geography, an cpifcopal 

 fee in the northern part of Arabia Petnea, over which Pro- 

 clus prehded at the council of Chalcedon. Adra, though 

 referred by Ptolemy to Arabia, which was confiderably ex- 

 tended northward, was really fituated in a fniall pro\ince of 

 Palelline, called Batanoca, near the river Hieroniax, fouth- 

 eall of Capitolias. When it became an cpifcopal fee, it held 

 the thiixi rank under the metropolis Balra. It was alfo 

 called Adraon and Adratum. 



Adka, or Hadrach, was, according to Ptolemy, a town 

 of Cselo-Syria. 



Adra is alfo the name of a town, placed by Ptolemy in 

 Liburnia ; and this was the Adra of Illyria. 



Adra, in Gcogrnphv, a fea-port town of Granada, in 

 Spain, forty-fcven miles fo'.'.th-eall of Granada. W. long. 

 2^ 37'. N. lat. 36^ 42'. 



ADRA Bill Cainpi, in Ancicr.t Geography, a canton of 

 Germany, mentioned by Ptolemy, and now called, accord- 

 ing to Martinicre, Marchfcld, and fituated in Upper Auftria, 

 uorth-eail of Vienna. 



ADRABON, a fmall diftria of Gaul belonging 

 to the Veneti, over againft BeUeifle, on the coall of 

 Brittany. 



ADRACHNE, in Bolany, the llrawbeny-tree. See 

 Arjivtus. It is alio called Adrada. 



ADRAGA, in Ancient Geography, hy fome called 

 T i DragH. 



