ASCHERSLEBEN, a city in the circle of the same name, containing 1214 houses and 12,139 inhabitants. It has an extensive trade in friezes, flannels, and other woollen goods, and in linen, leather, tobacco, and rape-oil.
ASCHII (α, priv. and ὁσία), an appellation given to those inhabitants of the earth who at certain seasons of the year
have no shadow: such are all the inhabitants of the torrid zone when the sun is vertical to them.