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Volume 14 · 78 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a very high mountain, a part of the mountains of Abarim, and their highest top, whither Moses was ordered to ascend to take a view of the land of Canaan, and there die. Situated in the land of Moab over against Jericho; with a cognominal town at its foot (Niaah) belonging to the Reubenites, which afterwards returned to the Moabites; in Jerome's time desolate; eight miles to the south of Hebron.

or NABO. See Naro.