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ATLAS MOUNTAINS, the general name for the mountain chains running more or less parallel to the coast of North-west Africa. They extend from Cape Nun on the west to the Gulf of Gabes on the east, a distance of some 1500 m., traversing Morocco, Algeria and Tunis ...

ATLAS, in Greek mythology, the " endurer," a son of the Titan lapetus and Clymene (or Asia), brother of Prometheus. Homer, in the Odyssey (i. 52) speaks of him as " on; who knows the depths of the whole sea, and keeps the tall pillars which hold heaven and ear ...

... and years before the birth of Solon, and its armies had overrun the lands which ATLAS— ATLAS MOUNTAINS bordered the Mediterranean. Athens alone had withstood them with success. Finally the sea had overwhelmed Atlantis, and had thenceforward become unnavigable ...

... s, 3,790,500 sq. m. The same, with the addition of territories east of the Ural Mountains, the portion of the Caspian Steppe east of the Ural river as far as the Emba, and the southern slopes of the Caucasus, 1 At the summit of each of the Trans-Ural railways ...

... able windows and balconies;2 and (3) for the satyric drama, rustic scenes, with mountains, caverns and trees. BIBLIOGRAPHY. — By far the fullest account of the Greek theatre is given in Dorpfeld and Reisch, Das griechische Theater (Athens, 1896). Its main thes ...

... ng the earlier lines or to the survival of the most resistant rocks as residual mountains. The oblique trend of the coast would be even more pronounced but for a comparatively modern crustal movement, causing a depression in the northeast, with a resulting enc ...

... gradually diminishing towards the south, as it is hemmed in by the Arakan Yoma mountains, until, in the extreme south, it tapers away to a narrow strip not more than 15 m. across. The coast is studded with islands, the most important of which are Cheduba, Ram ...

... l are in motion and therefore animate; but the savage does not stop short here; mountains and lakes, stones and manufactured articles, are for him alike endowed with souls like his own; he deposits in the tomb weapons and food, clothes and implements, broken, ...

... wer, tertiary or cretaceous age, are found in the Crow's Nest part of the Rocky Mountains in Canada, and at various points in the Andes in Peru. The principal use of anthracite is as a smokeless fuel. In the eastern United States, it is largely employed as dom ...

... n a strip of country running between the Adriatic Sea and the Sutorman range of mountains, overshadowed by the peak of Rumiya (5148 ft.). At a few hundred yards' distance it is invisible, hidden among dense olive groves. Within, there is a ruinous walled villa ...

... e. For the history of China by the last-named writer he was employed to make an atlas, which was published separately at the Hague in 1737. In i73$and 1736 he brought out two treatises on the figure of the earth; but these attempts to solve geometrical problem ...

AONIA, a district of ancient Boeotia, containing the mountains Helicon and Cithaeron, and thus sacred to the Muses, who are called by Pope the " Aonian maids."

... i, were required to reduce the little army of the heresiarch, entrenched in the mountains in the neighbourhood of Vercelli. Not till the 23rd APOSTOLIC MAJESTY— APOTHECARY of March 1307 were the sectaries definitively overcome. The Catholic crusaders seized Do ...

... t might be associated with this pretended worship. The people, says APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS Suetonius (Jul. Cats. c. 88), fully believed in the divinity of Julius Caesar, hinting at the same time that this was by no means the case with the majority of the apothe ...

... y situated 1060 ft. above sea-level, on the eastern slopes of the Acroceraunian mountains, and near the left bank of the river Dhrynos, a left-hand tributary of the Viossa. It is the capital of a sanjak bearing the same name, and was formerly important as the ...

... M6chain (1744-1804). The two left Paris in 1806 and began operations among the mountains of Spain, but Biot returned to Paris after they had determined the latitude of Fonnentera, the southernmost point to which they were to carry the survey, leaving Arago to ...

... s characterized by extreme heat in the summer and cold in the winter; among the mountains the snowfall is heavy, and thunderstorms are frequent, but there is comparatively little rain. Within a recent geological period, central Aragon was undoubtedly submerged ...

... ff his retreat. Eugenius was captured and executed, but Arbogast escaped to the mountains, where however he slew himself three days afterwards (8th of September 394). Although we have only most distorted narratives upon which to rely — pagan eulogy and Christi ...

... of old authors. It is a native of North America, and ranges from Canada to the mountains of Virginia and Carolina. It is a moderate-sized tree, and was introduced into Britain before 1597, when it was mentioned in Gerard's Herbal. In its native country it att ...

... and Arctic Ocean, W. by Finland and Olonets, S. by Vologda, and E. by the Ural mountains. It comprehends the islands of Novaya-Zemlya, Vaygach and Kolguev, and the peninsula of Kola. Its area is 331,505 sq. m., and its population in 1867 was 275,779 and in 18 ...

... n altitude of 15,792 ft. (Russian triangulation), and on the east by the Talish mountains (9000 ft.). Ardebil has a population of about 10,000, and post and telegraph offices. Its trade, principally in the hands of Armenians, is still important, but is chiefly ...

... s these there are the two small but interesting islands of Staffa and lona. The mountains are so many as to give the shire a markedly rugged character. Some of them are among the loftiest in the kingdom, as Ben Cruachan with its summit of twin pyramids (3689 f ...

... ins an elevation of i So 3 ft. In the western portion of the county are the Few Mountains, a chain of abrupt hills mostly incapable of cultivation. The county is well watered by numerous streams. The principal are the Callan, the Tynan and the Tallwater, flowi ...

... adows in northern and central Europe (but not extending to Britain), and on the mountains of western and central Europe. A closely allied species (A. angustifolia) , with very narrow leaves, is met with in Arctic Asia and America. The heads of flowers are larg ...

... ded from the vegetable to the animal world, to the inhabitants of the woods and mountains. This is clearly expressed in the cult of Artemis Laphria (possibly connected with Xa^upo, " spoils"), at whose festivals all kinds of animals, both wild and tame, as wel ...

... taly, in the province of Rome, situated at the N.N.W. extremity of the Volscian Mountains; it is 36 m. S.E. by rail, and 24 m. direct from Rome. Pop. (1901) 5016. On the mountain above it (2073 ft.) are the fine remains of the fortifications of a city built in ...

... responding foramina in the vertebrae above, lies in a groove on the arch of the atlas, and enters the skull through the foramen magnum, where it joins its fellow to form the basilar artery; it gives off muscular branches to the deep muscles of the neck, spinal ...

... e or asbestoid is a blue or green fibrous amphibole from Dauphiny. The Asbestos Mountains in Griqualand West, Cape Colony, yield a blue fibrous mineral which is worked under the name of Cape asbestos. This is referable to the variety of amphibole called crocid ...

... ing a living as a tutor in Christiania. In his holidays he wandered through the mountains, in the most remote districts, collecting stories. In 1842-1843 appeared the first instalment of the great work of the two friends, under the title of Norwegian Popular S ...

... hed on the surrounding heights. Juniper forests are said to exist on the higher mountains. Three or four days' journey cast and southeast of Besha are the encampments of the Bani Kahtan, one of the most ancient tribes of Arabia; their pastures extend into the ...

... See Washington Irving's Astoria; rr Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia, 1836).

... for determining the points of the compass and time; for ascertaining heights of mountains, &c.; and for construction of horoscopes. The instrument was a marvel of convenience and ingenuity, and was called " the mathematical jewel." Nevertheless it passed out o ...

... wn southern skies, when Johann Bayer published at Nuremberg in 1603 a celestial atlas depicting twelve new constellations formed from the rude observations of navigators across the line. In the same work, the current mode of star-nomenclature by the letters of ...

... bitants. Asturias consists of a portion of the northern slope of the Cantabrian Mountains,and is covered in all directions with offshoots from the main chain, by which it is almost completely shut in on the south. The higher summits, which often reach a height ...

... from Dunkeld to the borders of Inverness-shire. It is traversed by the Grampian mountains and watered by the Tay, Tummel, Garry, Tilt, Bruar and other streams. Glen Garry and Glen Tilt are the chief glens, and Loch Rannoch and Loch Tummel the principal lakes. ...

... ose points insisted upon which give an adequate idea of the country as a whole. Mountains. — Austria is the most mountainous country of Europe after Switzerland, and about four-fifths of its entire area is more than 600 ft. above the level of the sea. The moun ...

... ea Rossica, ou paleontologie de la Russie, 3 vols. (Stuttgart, 1852-1868), with Atlases.

... rail S.E. of the town of Perm, on the Iset river, near the E. foot of the Ural Mountains, in 56° 49' N. and EKATERINODAR— EKHOF 60° 35' £., at an altitude of 870 ft. above sea-level. It is the most important town of the Urals. Pop. (1860) 19,830; (1897) 55,48 ...

... a and Elymais (N.H. vi. 29-31). The Uxii are described as a robber tribe in the mountains adjacent to Media, and their name is apparently to be identified with the title given to the whole of Susiana in the Persian cuneiform inscriptions, Uivaja, i.e. " Aborig ...

... erior ones morallion. In 1830 emeralds were accidentally discovered in the Ural Mountains. At the present time they are worked on the river Takovaya, about 60 m. N.E. of Ekaterinburg, where they occur in mica-schist, associated with aquamarine, alexandrite, ph ...