ADAM'S APPLE, a name given to a species of Citrus. See Botany Index.

ADAM'S BRIDGE, or Rama's Bridge, in Geography, a ridge of sands and rocks, extending across the north end of Manara gulf, from the island of that name, on the north-west coast of Ceylon, to Ramencote or Ramankoil island, off Raman point.

ADAM'S NEEDLE. See Yucca, Botany Index.

ADAM'S PEAK, a high mountain of the East Indies, in the island of Ceylon, on the top of which it is believed the first man was created. It is in the form of a sugar loaf, and terminates in a circular plain about 200 paces in diameter. The summit is covered with trees, and has a deep lake which supplies the principal rivers of the island. The mountain is seen at the distance of twenty leagues from sea. It is situated in N. Lat. 5° 55'. E. Long. 80° 39'. See ADAM.

ADAM or ADOM, a town in the Persea, or on the other side of the Jordan, over against Jericho, where the Jordan began to be dried up on the passage of the Israelites (Joshua).