A mountain in Africa, opposite Gibraltar. This, with Calpē in Spain, 16 m. distant, forms the pillars of Hercules.
“Heaves up huge Abyla on Afric’s sand,
Crowns with high Calpē Europe’s salient strand.”
Darwin: Economy of Vegetation.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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