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ing a ftatue of this niouiitain, holdiiijif in one haiul a ciiy, 

 aud repicfentiiig a river as tlowing from the other. But the 

 extravasjant propofal was not accepted. 



ATHOTIS, orTHOT, m Biography, king of Thebes, 

 and according to the practice of the early ages, prieft and 

 phyfician, is faid to have cultivated, and written on aua- 



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liave conipofed the word tiler, which alfo fignifies gold-dud 

 among tlioie who trade in that commodity. 



ATICHY, ill Geograpky, a town o France, in the de- 

 partment of the Olfe, and chief place of a canton in the 

 dillrid of Novon, eight miles ea!l of Coir.piegne. 



ATICK-OOM-ASHISH, in Omilholo^y, the name by 



tomy. The preclfe time in which he lived is Rot known, which the fpecits of LoxiA //u^^rt/r« is known in Hudfon's 

 though fnppofed to be about 2000 years before the birth of ' - ^ ■' "^ '- " "^ -'''■* - ""-i 



Chrift. 



ATHULIA, in Eiitnmohgy, a very little fpecies of Ya- 

 f iLio {Nymph. Phal. Gmel.) four.d in the northern parts of 

 RnHJa. The wings are fulvous, doited with black, the 

 lower ones white on the under li.le, dotted with black, and 

 marked with two fulvous bands. This is Piipilio Phabc 

 of Efper, and belongs to the family ^atyi'i in the Fabrician 

 fyilem. OhJ. Papilio Athulia minor of Efper, Pap. t. 89. 

 is a variety of the Papilio Dictynna of Fabricius. 



ATHWART, m Navl'^alion, is fynonymoiis v.-rth acrofs 

 Ihe line of the courfe. 



Athwart the fire-fo'J, is a phrafe that denotes the 

 flight of a cannon-ball from one ihip acrofs the courfe of 



bay. Latham. Sonnini, in his " Additions a I'Hiiloire 

 Natuvelle de Buffon," adopts the firll part of this long de- 

 nomination, Atick, as the name of this fpecies. See Huo- 

 SONICA LoxiA. 



ATIENi;A, in Geography, a town of Spain» in Old 

 Callile, with an ar.cient caltle, fituate among the mountains 

 callevi " Sierra d'Atienoa," between Siguenga and Borgo 

 d'Oima. 



ATlMIA, hfamy or d'lfgrace, in Antiquity, a punirti- 

 ment among the Atheniaus, inflidcd for various crimes. 

 A perfmi fnffered this punifliment, when, retaining his pro- 

 perty, he was deprived offome privilege, enjoyed in common 

 with other citizens: and alfo, when he iuilcred a temporary 

 deprivation of the privilege of free citizens, and his goods 



another, to intercept th.e latter, and oblige her to fhorten were confifcatcd. Thofe who were indebted to the public 



fail, that the former may come near enough to examine her. treafury, till their dc-bts were paid, incurred this penalty. 



Athwart-Z'uh/"-, expredes the i'ituation of a fliip, when Alfo, when the criminal and his pofttrity were deprived of 



(he is driven by wind or tide, or any other accident, acrofs every right of a free citizen. Tliis was incurred by thofe 



the fore-part of another. that were guilty of theft or perjury, or other fmiilar of- 



Athwart-//j//)j, reaching acrofs the fhips from one fide fences. Infamous perfons were not allowed to give evi- 



to the other. 



ATHY, in Geography, a town of the county of Kildare, 

 near the borders of the Qiieen's county, 32 miles from Dub- 

 in, at which the affizes are held alternately with Naas. It 

 is fituated on the river Barrow, which is navigable hence to 

 the fea, and which a branch of the grand canal from Dub- 

 lin to the Shannon meets at this town. It was founded in 

 ihe twelfth century, on account of a ford over the river ; 

 and became of importance as a pafs, and fometimes as a 

 frontier town of the Englifli pale, in the difTenfions which 

 haraffed the country for many centuries, whilll the old 

 towns of Ardree and ArdfcuU in its neighbourhood gradu- 

 ally decayed ; and the polition of either can now only be 

 afcertained from a Danifh rath, and iomc ruins. It was 

 early granted the immunities of a merchant or market town, 

 beinsr mentioned as fuch in a llatute of Henry VI.; and it 



dence. 



ATINGA, in Ichthyology, a fpecies of Diodon, of an 

 oblong form, and befet with rounded fpines. Gmelin, SiC. 

 In Muf. Ad. Fr. it is defcribed as oilracion diodon corpora 

 fpinis undique armato; and in Amocn. Ac. oftracion conice- 

 oblongus, aculeis undique longis teretiformibus, in prim.is in 

 lateribus. It is called by Marcgraave guamajacu atiiiga, and 

 is I'alitigue, or po'iffon arme of French writers. In England 

 it is known by the name of porcupine fifti. 



This fpecies lives in the American feas, and about the cape 

 of Good Hope : and keeps the fhores for the fake of its 

 food, which conliils of crabs and tellaeeous vermes or fiiell- 

 fi(h. The length rather exceeds twelve inches; the body 

 is comprciTed at the fides, and bluifli ; the back rather broad, 

 round, and duil<y; belly broad, long, white, and fpotted all 

 over with black. The head is Imall, broad above, and 



was made a borough by James 1. in 1615, in confequence of rather comprefTed on the fides; eyes large, iris yellow; 



which two members were returned to parliament previonfly 

 to the union, under the patronage of the duke of Leinfter. 

 Athy contained 550 houfes in 1793, of which 160 were 

 flated and built of lime and ftone, and 390 thatched cabins; 

 the population of which might be eilimated at about 3300. 

 There were at that time no manufatlorics which defcrved 

 the name, notwithftanding the advantages derived from the 

 canal ; and the unhappy Hate of that part of the countiy 



noftrils fimple and tubular; mouth narrovv; upper jaw 

 rather longed, and angular in the middle; fins yellow, 

 fpotted with black ; margin brownidi, and the rays ramofe. 

 This creature has the power of dilating its body, and erect- 

 ing its fpines at pleafure. It is ufually taken in nets, but 

 will alfo take bait, which is commonly the tail of a crab, 

 faftcned on the hook. The flefli is eatable; but if the re- 

 lation of Pifo may be depended upon, it fliould be pre- 



■fmce gives too much reafon to fuppofe that no improvemennt pared for the table with the utmoft caution ; he tells us that 

 has yet taken place. The exports from the neighbouring the gall is very poifonous, and that (hould the tlefh become 

 country to Dublin, by the canal, confiilcd of coals, corn, impregnated \.'ith it (which mull be the cafe it the gall- 

 flour, butter, and potatoes, to the amount of above 20,000 bladder burll in gutting of the fifh), the moll dangerous 

 pounds per annum. N. lat. 52° 59'. W. long. 7°!'. An- con fequences might enfue to thofe who eat of it; the fenfes 

 tholog. Hibern. vol. i. Dr. Beaufort's Map and Memoir. of the afflidlcd perfons fail, their limbs become languid, and 



ATHYNA, a fmall town of Himgary, in Sclavonia their tongue immoveable, cold fweats fucceed, and in this 



proper, and county of Poflega, beyond the Drave. Hate they die, unlefs feme fpeedy remedy be applieil. 



ATI, or Aty, a fmall canton of Africa, in Guinea, Gmelin deems diodon holocanthus aculeis capitis colloque 



upon the Golden Coait, north of Fantin, and to the eaft 

 of Abramboe. 



ATIA. Sec Odio f/ATiA. 



ATIBAR, a name given by the inhabitants of tlie 

 Itingdoni of Gago, in Africa, to gold-dull ; from 



longioribus of Lin. Syft. Nat. and hiilrix alter of Willughbv, 

 to be a variety of tlie preceding fpecies; it is diftinguifhed 

 by having the fpines of the head and neck longer than in 

 the other. 



ATINGACU Camucu, in Ornithology, the name af- 



■wliieh word the Europeans, and cfpecially the French, figaed by Marcgraave in " The Hiilory of Brafil," Ray, 



« < WiUughby, 



