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ANABOA

Volume 1 · 74 words · 1778 Edition

a small island situated near the coast of Loango in Africa, in E. Long. 9°. N. Lat. 1°. Here are several fertile valleys, which produce plenty of bananas, oranges, pine-apples, lemons, citrons, tamarinds, cocoa nuts, &c. together with vast quantities of cotton. In this island are two high mountains, which, being continually covered with clouds, occasion frequent rains.

ANABOLÆUM, or ANABOLI, in antiquity, a kind of great or upper coat, worn over the tunica.