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mont, bounded on the west and north by the
Alps, or rather on the north by the Valais, for
the mountains run from north to south into Aoust,
which may be considered altogether as a moun-
tainous district. Pop. about 05,000. The princi-
pal city of the same name, which is a bishop’s see,
is situate about the centre of the province, be-
tween two streams of the Baltea River, which
falls into the Po, and on the great high road from
the pass of St. Bernard to Turin. It contains sev-
eral monuments of the Romans. Pop. 5,500.
Apalachian Mountains, the name given to the
immense chain extending along the whole At-
lantic coast of the U. States, from Alabama to
Maine. In the Southern Stales they are 200 m.
from the sea, but as they extend northward ap-
proach near the coast. They run generally in
parallel ridges and their various divisions go by
different names. These are the Cumberland
mountains of Tennessee, the Blue mountains of
Virginia, the Alleghany and Laurel mountains
of Pennsylvania, the (Jatskill mountains of New
York, the Green mountains of Vermont, and
the White mountains of New Hampshire. They
are sometimes broken into groups and isolated
chains. Their highest summits are in N. Hamp-
shire ; and are between 6 and 7,000 ft. above the
level of the sea. East of the Hudson they are
granitic. In the W. and S. they consist of gran-
ite, gneiss, mica and clay slate, primitive lime-
stone, Ac. Their name in the language of the
Indians signified endless.
Apalachicola, a river of North America, formed
by the junction of the Chatahooche and Flint, at
an old Indian fort of the same name on the south
confines of Georgia, and thence flows between
West and East Florida into Apalache bay, in the
gulf of Mexico, east of Cape Blaize.
Apanormia, a town seated on the N. W. coast
of the island of Santorin, 7 m. N. N. W. of
Scauro, at the entrance of the Grecian Archipe-
lago.
Apee, one of the New Hebrides, near Malicollo,
in the Pacific Ocean. Long. 168. 27. E. lat. 16.
46. S.
Apenrade, or Aapemradc, a sea-port of Denmark,
in Sleswick, with a citadel. It is a place of consid-
erable trade, seated at the bottom of a gulf of the
Little Belt, 27 m. N. N W. of Sleswick. Long 9.
38. E. lat. 55. 8. N.
Aphiom, or Afium-kara-hissar, a town of Asiatic
Turkey, in Natolia, built round a high rock, on
the top of which is a fortress. It is 3 m. in
circumference, and has a considerable trade. The
chief manufacture is carpets; and the country
around produces much opium, called aphiom by
the Turks. It stands on the Mindra, 150 m. E.
A Smyrna. Long. 31. 10. E. lat. 38. 35. N.
Apolda, a town of Upper Saxony in Thuringia,
S m. N. of Jena, and 40 S. W. of Leipsic.
1 Apenniius, a chain of mountains, in Europe
!* which begins near Oneglia, on the gulf of Genoa,
passes round that gulf at no great distance from
the sea. then proceeds east to the centre of Italy,
and afterward divides that country in a mediate
| south-east direction to the extremities of the
i kingdom of Naples. Hence proceed all the rivers
which water Italy. The Apennines are at first a
branch of the Alps, but, in general they may rather
be regarded as hills than as mountains. |
Appenzel, a canton in the N. E. part of Switzer-
land, bordering on Tyrol. It is divided into 12
communities : six called the interior, are Roman
Catholic, with a population of 16,000, subsisting
chiefly by agriculture; and six exterior, bordering
on the canton of St. Gall, are Protestant, with a
population of 40,000, a great portion of which are
employed by the manufacturers of the city of
St. Gall.
Appenzel, the chief town of the above Canton,
is situate on the bank of the river Sitter, on the
interior side, and containing about 3,000 inhab.
Appia Via, or Appian Way, a celebrated road
from Rome through Capua to Brundusium. It
was begun by Appius Claudius Ccecus, and con-
tinued by Julius and Augustus Caesar.
Appii Forum, a town in the south west of Italy,
about 50 m. S. of Rome, and 18 from the Three
Taverns ; where the Christians of Rome came to
meet Paul in his journey from Puteoli to that me-
tropolis of the world.
Applety, a borough in Eng. returning twin mem-
bers to parliament, and the county-towin of West-
moreland, with a market on Saturday. It wins a
Roman station, and has been twice destroyed by
the Scots, and it now consists of only one broad
street of mean houses. At the upper end or south
part is the castle, and at the lower end is the
church. The town is governed by a mayor, and
almost encircled by the Eden. It is 20 m. N. N.
E. of Kendal, and 270 N. N. W. of London. Pop.
in 1821, 824, and Bongate, which forms part of
the town, 637 more.
Applecross, a parish extending for about 20
miles along the western coast of Ross-shire, Scot-
land. Pop. in 1821, 2,793, who subsist mainly by
the herring fishery. There is a town of the same
name, in which the population is principally con-
centrated.
Appledore, a village of England in Northam,
Devonshire, situate at the mouth of Towuidge, in
Barnstable bay, three miles north by east of Bid-
ford. Here the Danes landed, under Hubba, in the
time of Alfred. It is now resorted to for bathing.
Appleton, t. Waldo Co. Me. Pop. 735.
Appling, a Co. of Georgia, in the S. E. part of
the state, upon the Altamaha. Pop. 1,468.
Applingrille, the chief town of Columbia Co.
Geo. 93. m. from Milledgeville.
Appollonia, a district extending about 100 miles
on the S. W. coast of North Africa. Cape Appol
Ionia is in 5. N. lat. and 3. 57. W. long.
Appolobamba, a town in La Paz, one of the
united provinces of Paraguay, on the border of
Peru.
Appomattox, a stream of Virginia, falling into
the James from the S. near City Point.
Appoquinimink, a stream in the state of Dela-
ware, running into Delaware Bay, a little below
Reedy Island.
Appoquinimink, t. Newcastle Co. Del.
Apt, a town of France, in the department of
Mouths of the Rhone. It has a trade in prunes,
coarse serges, and wax chandlery ; and contains
many Roman antiquities. It is seated on the
Calaron, 20 m. N. of Aix.
Apulia, p.v. Onondaga Co. N. Y. 129 m. W,
Albany.
Apure, a river of Colombia rising from various
sources on the E. side of the eastern range of the
Andes and falling into the Oronoko.
Apurimae, a river of Peru, which rises 10 miles
N. of Arequipa, and flows N. about 430 miles;
receiving the Paucartambo, and Pilcomayo from
the E. and the Jauja or Mantaro from the W. It
then takes the name of Ucayale, and continuing
its course 470 miles further, enters the river Ama-
zon, in long. 72. 46. W. |
