[Athlone] (7), a market-town on the Shannon, which divides it, and a chief military station.
[Athole], a district in the N. of Perthshire, which gives name to a branch of the Murray family.
[Athole-brose], oatmeal, honey, and whisky mixed.
[Athole, Sir John James Hugh Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of], honourably distinguished for having devoted years of his life to editing the records of the family and the related history; b. 1840
[A`thos, Mount], or Monte Santo (6), a mountain 6780 ft. high at the southern extremity of the most northerly peninsula of Salonica, in Turkey, covered with monasteries, inhabited exclusively by monks of the Greek Church, and rich in curious manuscripts; the monks devote themselves to gardening, bee-culture, and other rural occupations, the more devout among them at one time celebrated for the edification they derived from the study of their own navels.
[Atlanta] (65), the largest city in Georgia, U.S.; a large manufacturing and railway centre.
[Atlantes], figures of men used in architecture instead of pillars.
[Atlantic, The], the most important, best known, most traversed and best provided for traffic of all the oceans on the globe, connecting, rather than separating, the Old World and the New; covers nearly one-fifth of the surface of the earth; length 9000 m., its average breadth 2700 m.; its average depth 15,000 ft., or from 3 to 5 m., with waves in consequence of greater height and volume than those of any other sea.
[Atlan`tis], an island alleged by tradition to have existed in the ocean W. of the Pillars of Hercules; Plato has given a beautiful picture of this island, and an account of its fabulous history. The New, a Utopia figured as existing somewhere in the Atlantic, which Lord Bacon began to outline but never finished.
[At`las], a Titan who, for his audacity in attempting to dethrone Zeus, was doomed to bear the heavens on his shoulders; although another account makes him a king of Mauritania whom Perseus, for his want of hospitality, changed into a mountain by exposing to view the head of the Medusa.