don in 1822, is a copy of the celebrated Temple
of the Winds which adorned Athens; and it is
proposed to erect in Westminister a fac simile of
the Parthenon, an edifice which has delighted the
eye of every beholder, through a period of 2,500
years, the fatter part of which it has been a prey
to every species of spoliation. In 1808, lord El-
gin, then ambassador from England at Constan-
tinople, ransacked the Parthenon of the choicest
vestiges of its friezes, &c. which now adorn the
national Museum in London. Athens was besieged
by the Greeks in the early part of their revolu-
tionary struggle, and the acropolis fell into their
hands in 1822. Since which time they have been
masters of the city. It stands in a spacious plain ;
the hill of Mars, on the summit of which stood the
temple, dedicated to the idol of that name, was,
during the zenith of its greatness, in the centre of
the city, but now, at some distance from the pre-
sent town, which is bounded on one side by Mount
Hymettus, deservedly celebrated for the honey
which it produces. On the sea side it has three
ports; the Phalereus, Munchyia,and Pirseus,about
5 miles distant from the town, and through which
it carries on some little external traffic in honey,
wax, oil, olives, silk, &c. in exchange for the
manufactures of Western Europe generally, but
for which, its chief means of payment consist in
the bills of exchange, drawn to defray the Ex-
penses of its numerous visitors; it is in lat. 37.

58. N. and 23. 46. W. long. Pop. 12,000.

Athens, p.t. Somerset Co. Me. Pop. 1,200.

Athens, t. WTndham Co. Vt. 25 m. N. Brat-
tleboro. Pop. 415.

Athens, p.t. Greene Co. N. Y. or the E. bank
of the Hudson, opposite Troy. 26 m. below Al-
bany. Pop. 2,425.

Athens, p.t. Bradford Co. Pa. on the Susque-
hannah.

Athens, p.t. Clarke Co. Geo. 68 m. N. Mil-
ledgeville, contains the university of Georgia,
which has a President and 6 Professors ; the libra-
ries contain 4,500 vols.; the students in 1831
were 95. Pop. 1,100.

Athens, a Co. of Ohio, in the S. E. part. Pop.
9,763. Athens is the chief town.

Athens, p.t. capital of the above Co. belongs to
the Ohio university. The college at this place com-

rises 2 buildings, and had in 1831, 57 students.

ts annual revenue is 2,300 dollars. Athens is 70 m.
S. E. Columbus.

Athens, t. Harrison Co. Ohio, 125 m. E. Colum-
bus.

Atherston, a town in Warwickshire, Eng., with
manufactures of hats, ribands, and shalloons.
Richard III. held a council with his nobles here,
the night before the battle of Bosworth. It is seat-
ed near the Anker, on the high road from Lon-
don to Holyhead, by Chester. 13 m. N. of Cov-
entry, and 108 N. W. of London. Pop. in 1821,
3,434.

Athlone, a borough of Ireland, partly in the
Co. of Westmeath, and partly in Roscommon.
It stands on both sides of the Shannon, over which
is a long bridge that is the grand pass between
the provinces of Leinster and Connaught. It is
60 m. W. of Dublin. Pop. in 1821, 7,543, and
of the parishes of St. Mary and St. Peter
in which the town is situate, 6,270 more. This
is now one of the most extensive military sta-
tions in all Ireland; and sends one member to
the parliament of the United Kingdom.

Athol, p.t. Worcester Co. Mass. 70 m. W. Bos-
ton. Pop. 1,325.

Athol, p.t. Warren Co. N. Y. 81 m. N. Albany.
Pop. 909.

Athos, or Monte Santo, a high mountain of
Greece, Macedonia, on a peninsula at the en-
trance of the gulf of Contessa. It has been cele-
brated in all ages for its singular locality, and the
majesty of its appearance, and became an object
of such great attraction to the Greeks, as to draw
devotees from all parts of Eastern Europe, who
have interspersed it with numerous churches,
monasteries, and hermitages ; hence it has acquir-
ed the name of Monte Santo, or the Holy Moun
tain. The monks amount to about 6,000; who sub
sist chiefly by preying on the numerous devotee?
whom their affected sanctity and craft continuar
ly draw around them; they however cultivate tfa.
olive and the vine to some extent, and there are four
establishments of education for Greek ecclesias-
tics ; there is a fortified town called Kareis, about
half way up the mountain, at which a Turkish aga
resides. It is about 70 m. E. of Salonica, and in lat.
40. 7. N. and 24. 15. E. long.

Alky, a borough of Ireland, in the county of
Kildare. It is seated on the river Barrow, 12 m.

S. of Kildare, and communicates with Dublin daily
by passage boats, by the line of the grand canal.
Pop. in 1821.3,693. The remains of an old castle
now serve for a county jail, and there are ruins
of two monasteries in the vicinity.

Atkinson, p.t. Rockingham Co. N. Hampshire,
36 m. fr. Boston : 30 fr. Portsmouth. Pop. 555.

Atlantic, or Atlantic Ocean, takes its name from
mount Atlas in Africa, and lies between the west
continents of Africa and Europe, and the east
continent of America. Its least breadth from
Guinea in Africa, to Brazil in South America, is
2,300 miles. On one side of the equator, it is call-
ed the North Atlantic Ocean, and on the other
the South Atlantic Ocean.

Atlas, a chain of high mountains, in Africa,
separating Barbary from Biledulgerid, and extend-
ing east from the coast of the Atlantic to the bor-
der of Egypt, upwards of 2,000 m.; their greatest
altitude is about 13,000 ft. above the level of the
sea. Silver, copper, iron, lead, and antimony, are
found in different parts of these mountains.
Another chain, called the Little Atlas, extends
from the strait of Gibraltar to Bona in the state
of Algiers. These mountains have different
names, according to the various countries they
pass through, and the plains and valleys by which
they are intersected. They are inhabited almost
in every place, except where the extreme cold
will not permit.

Atlisco, a town of Mexico, in Tlascala, seated
in an extensive plain of its name, 20 m. W. S. W.
of Puebla de los Angelos.

xe2x80xa2 Atooi, one of the Sandwich islands, in the North
Pacific Ocean. It is 30 m. long, and contains a
great portion of gently rising land. On the S.
W. side is a good road and anchoring place, called
Wymoa. Long. 159. 40. W. lat. 21.57. N. Pop.
about 55,000.

Atoyaque, a town of Mexico, south of the river
Zacatula, and a few miles inland from the Pacific
Ocean in lat. 18. N.

Atrato. a river of Colombia, which rises be-
tween the first and second ridge of the Andes,
and runs from south to north about 250 rn. into
the gulf of Darien, in lat. 8. N. and W. long.

77. 6.

Atri, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ulteriore,
on a craggy mountain. It was the birthplace of
the emperor Adrian. It is about 4 m. from