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ABALUS

Volume 2 · 59 words · 1842 Edition

in Ancient Geography, is described by the ancients as an island in the German Ocean, where amber was found in great abundance. It was also called Rau-nonia, and is supposed by Mannert, a learned German writer, to be the narrow peninsula on the Prussian coast which lies betwixt the Baltic and the lakes called the Frisch and Curish Haffs.