ABBEVILLE, a considerable city of France in Picardy, and the capital of Ponthieu; the river Somme runs through the middle of it, and divides it into two parts. It has a collegiate church and twelve parish-churches, the most considerable of which are St George's and St Giles's, besides a great number of monasteries and nunneries, a bailiwick, and a presidial court. It is a fortified town; the walls are flanked with bastions, and surrounded by large ditches; and it was never yet taken. The country about it is low, marshy, and dirty. It is pretty well peopled, and is famous for its woollen manufactory. It is about fifteen miles east of the British channel, and ships may come from thence by the river Somme to the middle of the town. It is ninety miles almost directly north of Paris. E. Long. 2. 6. Lat. 50. 7.