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9° 15′ N., long. 79° 30′ E. gerous shoal, about 30 miles long, northwest of Adams Island. A name of Roa-Poua, one the Marques as Islands. Adam's Peak. A conical mountain, 7,379 feet high, in Ceylon, about lat. 6° 50′ N., long. 80° 30′ E., the seat of Singhalese worship. There is a Buddhist temple on the summit. Adam's Run. A township in Collet on County, South Carolina, about 25 miles west-southwest of Charleston. Population (1890), 4,609. Adams on, John. Born at Gates head, England, Sept. 13, 1787: died at Newcastle, Sept. 27, 1855. An English archæologist and Portuguese scholar. Adams on (ad'am-son), Patrick (originally Const on, Constant, Con steane, or Const an tine). Born at Perth, Scotland, died at St. Andrew's, Scotland, Feb. 19, 1592. A Scottish prelate, made archbishop of St. Andrew's, 1576, and excommunicated on var i ous charges in 1588. Adams on, Robert. Born 1852. A Scottish philosophical writer, profe or of philosophy at Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester, England. He is the author of "Roger Bacon: the Philosophy of Science in the Middle Ages" (1876), "On the Philosophy of Kant" (1879), "Fichte" (1881), etc. Adamsthal (ä'däms-täl). A village 9 miles north of Brünn, Moravia. There are noted caves in the vicinity. Adana (ä-da'nä). A vilayet in Asia Minor, Turkey, corresponding nearly to the ancient Cilicia Campestris. It was ceded by the sultan to Ibrahim Pasha in 1833 (Peace of Kutaya, May of that year). Population (1885), 402,439. Adana. The capital of the vilayet of Adana, situated on the Sihun about lat. 37° 1' N., long. 35° 18′ E. It was colonized by Pompey with pirates about 63 B. C., and was refounded in the time of Harunal-Rashid. It formed the northwestern outpost of Ibrahim Pasha. Population (estimated), 45,000. Adangbe (ä-däng'be). A town of German Togo-land, western Africa. It has about 7,000 inhabitants, whose ancestors were driven from Elmina by the A shanti, in the latter part of the last century. Adans le Roi. See Adenet . Adanson (a-don-son'), Michel. Born at Aix, France, April 7, 1727: died at Paris, Aug. 3, 1806. A French naturalist and traveler in Sene gambia: author of "His to ire naturelle du Sénégal" (1757), "Familles des plantes" (1763), etc. Adar (a'där). [A yro-Babylonian addaru , 'the dark.'] The name of the 12th month (February-March) of the Babylonian calendar from which it was adopted by the Jews, along with the rest of the names of the months, after the