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ADAMSHIDE

Volume 1 · 86 words · 1771 Edition

a district of the circle of Rattenburg, belonging to the King of Prussia, which, with Dombröken, was bought, in 1737, for 42,000 dollars.

ADAM'S peak, a high mountain of the E. Indies, in the island of Ceylon, on the top of which they believe the first man was created; and there is the shape of a man's foot, cut out of the rock, about five or six feet in length, which they pretend is the print of his foot, 80° 50' E. long. 5° 55' lat.