Akenside, Mark

an English poet and physician, the son of a butcher, born at New Castle-on-Tyne, 1721. In 1744 he published his Pleasures of Imagination, a poem which at once attained celebrity, and proved him a true poet. D. in London, 1770. Akerman, (ancient Tyrus ,) a fortified town of Ru ia in Europe, province of Be arabia, near the junction of the Dniester with the Black Sea; Lat. 46° 12′ N.; Lon. 30° 22′ E. As the basin of the Dniester has only from 5 to 7 feet of water, the larger cla of ve els anchor in the Black Sea, about 16 m. from the town. In 1826 was concluded in A. , between Ru ia and Turkey, a treaty by which Wall a chia, Moldavia, and Servia were emancipated from all but a nominal dependence on the Ottoman Porte. Pop . (1895) 45,598. Akhi ar', (the anc. Thyatira , a town of Turkey in Asia, Anatolia, 58 miles N.E. of Smyrna, on the direct road between Constantinople and Smyrna. Exp . , cotton goods. Pop . 6,000. Akhlat, a town of Turkey in Asia, Kurdistan, on the shore of lake Van, formerly a place of great importance, known under the name Argish ; but now greatly decayed. Lat. 38° 35' N.; Lon. 41° 22′ E. Pop . 6,000.