in Geography, a district of Abyssinia, near the province of Walduaba, containing several considerable villages, that are inhabited by Mohammedans; who by their number and strength contribute to the safety of the monks in that part of the country. It is so called from Adama, which in the Amharic dialect signifies pleasant, the name of an adjacent mountain. The river Anzo runs in a contiguous valley. (Bruce's Travels, 4to, vol. iii. p. 179).

ADAMIC EARTH, a name given to common red clay, alluding to that species of earth of which the first man is supposed to have been made.