or AMHARA, a province of Abyssinia, said to extend 40 leagues from east to west. It is considered as the most noble in the whole empire, both on account of its being the usual residence of the Abyssinian Amhurft byllfian monarchs, and having a particular dialect different from all the rest, which, by reason of the emperors being brought up in this province, is become the language of the court and of the politer people. Here is the famed rock Amba-geffen, where the young monarchs were formerly confined. See Amba and Abyssinia.

Amhurst, Nicholas, an English poet and political writer of the 18th century, was born at Mar- den in Kent, and entered of St John's college, Oxford; from whence he was expelled for irregularity of conduct and libertine principles. Retaining great resentment against the university on this account, he abused its learning and discipline, and some of the most respectable characters in it, in a poem published in 1724 called Oculus Britanniae, and in a book entitled Terre Filius. He published, A Miscellany of Poems, sacred and profane; and, The Convocation, a poem in five cantos, which was a satire on the Bishop of Bangor's antagonists. But he is best known for the share he had in the political paper called The Craftsman: though, after having been the drudge of his party for near 20 years, he was as much forgotten in the famous compromise of 1742 as if he had never been born; and, when he died in that year of a broken heart, was indebted to the charity of his bookseller for a grave.