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Klein a sien.] A peninsula of William and Lady Ashton. Betrothed to Edgar other, and dies, a maniac, on her wedding-night. (See Ravens wood, she forced by her mother to marry Ravens wood .) The leading characters of this novel also appear in Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammer moor," and in several dramas founded upon the incidents of the story. Ashland (ash'land). The capital of Ashland County, Ohio, 52 miles southwest of Cleveland. father of Lucy. Population (1900), 4,087. Ashton, Sir William. In Scott's "Bride of Lammer moor," the Lord Keeper of Scotland, Ashton-in-Maker field (ash'ton-in-mak'er- Ashland. A city in Boyd County, northeast-feld). A coal-mining and manufacturing town ern Kentucky, on the Ohio River. Population in Lancashire, England, 15 miles northeast of (1900), 6,800. Ashland. A borough in Schuylkill County, Ashton-under-Lyne (ash'ton-un'der-lin'). A. Pennsylvania, 40 miles northwest of Reading. It has various manufactures, and is the center of portant anthracite coal region. Population (1900), 6,438. Ashland. The capital of Ashland County, Wisconsin, situated on a bay of Lake Superior 62 miles southeast of Duluth. It is an important port and railroad terminus of recent growth. Population (1900), 13,074. Ashley Cooper. See Shaftesbury . Ashley (ash'li), Chester. Born at West field, Ma ., June 1, 1790: died at Washington, D. C., April 27, 1848. An American politician, Democratic United States senator from Arkansas 1844-48. Ashley. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, south of Wilkesbarre. Population (1900), 4,046. Ashley River. A small river in South Carolina, at whose mouth Charleston is situated. Ashmodai. See As mode us . Liverpool. Population (1891), 13,379. town in Lancashire, Lancashire, England, 6+ miles east of Manchester, noted for its cotton manufactures. Population (1891), pulation (1891), 40, 494. Ashtoreth (ash'to-reth). The godde of fecundity and love of the Can a a nites, equivalent to Ishtar of the A yro-Babylonians, the female counterpart of Baal: the Greek Astarte. These two deities held the first place in the Phenic i an pantheon. Baal was identified with the sun, and Ashtoreth with the moon, and she is often represented under the symbol of the crescent. The chief seat of her worship was Sidon. The pomegranate and the dove were sacred to her. In Ascalon she was worshiped under the name of Derceto. (See Ascalon .) The favorite places of her worship were sacred groves, and she herself was often adored under the symbol of a tree, the asherah (translated 'grove') often denounced in the Old Testament. Hercult in later times was combined with immorality. western Asia which lies between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora on the north, the Egean Sea on the west, and the Mediterranean Sea on the south. The eastern boundary is vague. The chief divisions in ancient times were Mysia, Lydia, Caria, Lycia, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Bithynia, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Cilicia, Cappadocia, and Pontus. (See these namesily It is port of Asiatic Turkey and corresponds generally to Anatolia. The surface is in the main a plateau, traversed by the Taurus and other ranges. The chief Sarabat. It w rivers are the Sakaria, Kizil-Irmak, Sihun, Mendere, and powers, and of Ionian Greek civilization; and its po e ion has been disputed by Persia, Macedon, Syria, Rome, the Byzantine empire, Parthia, the Saracens, the Seljuks, and the Turks. was the seat of Troy, Lydia, and other ancient Asia Minor contained anciently, according to Hero dot us, fifteen races or nations. Of these four occupied the southern region; namely, the Cilicians, the Pamphylians, the Lycians, and the Caunians; four lay to the west of the great table-land, either upon or very near the coast, the Carians, the Lydians, the Mysians, and the Greeks; four bordered on the Euxine, the Thracians, Mariandynians, Paphlagonians, and Cappadocians; and three, finally, dwelt in the interior, the Phrygians, the Chalybes, and the Matièni.