AGADES, a kingdom and city of Negroland in Africa. It lies nearly under the tropic of Cancer, between Gubur and Cano. The town stands on a river that falls into the Niger; it is walled, and the king's palace is in the midst of it. The king has a retinue, who serve as a guard. The inhabitants are not so black as other Negroes, and consist of merchants and artificers. Those that inhabit the fields are shepherds or herdsmen, whose cottages are made of boughs, and are carried about from place to place on the backs of oxen. They are fixed on the spot of ground where they intend to feed their cattle. The houses in the city are stately, and built after the Barbary fashion. This kingdom was, and may be still, tributary to the king of Tombuctoo. It is well watered; and there is great plenty of grass, cattle, senna, and manna. The prevailing religion is the Mahometan, but it is not rigidly practised. N. Lat. 26. 10. E. Long. 9. 10. AGALLOCHUM, a very fragrant medicinal wood brought from the East Indies. See EXCÆCARIA, BOTANY INDEX. AGALMATA, in antiquity, a term originally used to signify any kind of ornaments in a temple; but afterwards for the statues only, which were most conspicuous. AGAMEMNON, the son of Atreus by Erobe, was captain general of the Trojan expedition. It was foretold to him by Cassandra, that his wife Clytemnestra would be his death: yet he returned to her; and accordingly was slain by Ægisthus, who had gained upon his wife in his absence, and by her means got the government into his own hands. AGAN, in Geography, one of the Ladron islands. The circumnavigator, Magellan, was assassinated here in the year 1525. AGANIPPE, in antiquity, a fountain of Bœotia, at Mount Helicon, on the borders between Phœcis and Bœotia, sacred to the Muses, and running into the river Permessus; (Pliny, Pausanias.) Ovid seems to make