a lake between Cumae and the promontory Misenum, now il Lago della Collucia. (Cluverius). Some confound it with the Lacus Lucernus, and others with the Lacus Avernus. But Strabo and Pliny distinguish them. The former takes it to be an effusion, exundation, or washes of the sea, and therefore called by Lycophron, Αχερονια χωρις.—Also a lake of Epirus, through which the Acheron runs.—There is also an Acherusia, a peninsula of Bithynia on the Euxine, near Heraclea; and a cave there of the same name, through which Hercules is fabled to have descended to hell to drag forth Cerberus.

ACHLAR, is a Malay word, which signifies all sorts of fruits and roots pickled with vinegar and spice. The Dutch import from Batavia all sorts of achiar, but particularly that of BAMBOO, a kind of cane, extremely thick, which grows in the East Indies. It is preserved there, whilst it is still green, with very strong vinegar and spice; and is called bamboo achiar. The name changes according to the fruit with which the achiar is made.