Adair, John

an American general, b. 1757, d. 1840. He was a representative from Kentucky in the U. S. Congre , and commanded the troops of that state in the battle of New Orleans. Adair', in Iowa , a southwestern county; area, 576 sq. m. It is drained by the Middle and Grand rivers, and by the headwaters of the Nodaway river. Surface , undulating; soil , fertile a very productive agricultural section. Products, corn, wheat, butter, hay, wool, . Cap. Greenfield. Pop . (1895) 15,504. Adair, in Kentucky , a southern county, organized in 1801. Area , 450 square miles. Prod ., Indian corn, tobacco, gra , and wool. The county po e es abundant water-power, and numerous manufactories. Cap . Columbia. Adair, in Mi ouri , a county in the N.N.E. part of the State, organized in 1840. Area, 570 square miles; county-seat, Kirksville. It is drained by Char it on river, and by the north fork of Salt River. Soil productive.-A twp. of Camden co. Adair's ville, in Georgia , a twp. and vill. of Barton co., 69 miles N.W. of Atlanta, on the Western and Atlantic railroad. Adair's ville, in Ky., a twp. and vill. of Logan co., 180 m. S.W. of Frankfort. A'dal, or ADEL, a country inhabited by the Affar , or Arabs Danakil, on the eastern coast of Africa, between 11° 30 and 15° 40 N. lat. The length of Adel along the Red Sea is about 300 miles, and its width 40 miles. The country is varied with hill and dale, but, on the whole, barren. It contains plains of salt, which is cut into pieces, the size of a whetstone, and used in Aby in i a as a currency. The tribes by which this region is traversed live a nomadic life, and their only commerce is this of the salt, which they collect on the Bahr A al, and transport along the caravan-road to Shoa. Annexed to Egypt in 1875, as the province of Harrar. ( q . v .) Ad'am, the first man, and progenitor of the human race, whom God formed of the dust of the ground, on the sixth and last day of the creation, as related in the first and econd chapters of Genesis. The whole of the authentic history of Adam is contained in the first five chapters of that book. His lo of the state of innocence and felicity which he originally enjoyed, is commonly known by the name of the Fall . It was after this event, and his expulsion from the Garden of Eden, or the terrestrial Paradise, that his sons Cain, Abel, and Seth, or Sheth, were born. He is also stated to have had other sons and daughters, whose names are not given. He died at the age of 930, and therefore, according to the commonly received computation, in the year 3074 B. C. The word Adam means "to be red," and it is supposed that in allusion to the signification of this Hebrew verb, the earth out of which Adam was made was called Adamah ; while others think that the name Adam contains an allusion to the reddish color of a healthy person. (See the use of the word adom in the Song of Solomon, v. 10.) According to Ludolf, Adamah, in Ethiopic, means "beautiful," denoting man to be the chief work of God. In the New Testament, the second Adam signifies our Saviour.