Abutment

a term used in architecture to the solid part of a wall, pier, or mound ABUTMENTS (2.2) OF A BRIDGE. which an arch rests. The abutments of a are the supports of its two extremities. Abydos, 9 town situated on the Hellespont, in province of Mysia, Asia Minor, nearly opposite to on the European side. It played an import part in Greek history, for it was the point from Xerxes cro ed on his bridge of boats; and offered a stubborn resistance to Philip of The story of Hero and Leander hag. 18 rendered castle famed sculptures. temples the yielded the the the KE. and N. po e ions the Nile. the Aby in i a lands, rected of chief Lamalmon, towards valley The tains miles reason rises about Bahr-el-Arrek, near through the flows at vince ae The of are Jemon, tailed there is elephant, beasts other and elements: and on ants) east jntruders Aby in i a. (14) me et it still more famous. The old Turkish of the Dardanelles lies a little 8S. Of the same name in the town in Upper Egypt, for its riches in specimens of Egyptological It was at Abydos that the two famous of Seti I. and Kameses IJ. (the Pharach of Captivity) were situated, and which have such valanble information as a result of exp lur a tions of Prof. Flinders Petrie. A sinia, the name of which is derived.rom Arabic word Habesh, a mixture, in reference to mixed population, is a mountainous country of Africa, Pur between 7° 40 and 15° 407 N. lat. 35’ and 40° 40” E, long, It is bordered on the and N.W. by Nubia, on the E. by the African of Italy, on the S. by the territory of Gallas, on the W. by the regions of the Upper The area is about 350,000 square miles, and population between three and four millions. consists of a series of extensive table the average height being 7,000 feet, inter. by deep valleys hollowed out by the action water, and by precipitous mountain ranges, the of which are the Samen (15,000 feet), the and the Lasta. The slope is abrapt the Red Sea, more gradual towards the of the Nile. The principal rivers are tributaries of the Nile.