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Excerpt from Bibliotheca Classica, or a Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms Relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of Antiquity and of the Ancients: With a Chronological Table Asiu, or Am, a mountain of Africa, in that part which is nearest to the 'te moun tain called Cal on the coast 0 Spain, only eighteen miles t. These two mountains are called the columns of Hercules, and were said formerl to be united, till the hero separa ted them made a communication between the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas. Slab. 3. - Mla, l, c. 5, l. 9. C. 6. - Plim. 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.