Athos, Mount (A`thos, Mount) , or Monte Santo (6), a mountain 6780 ft. high at the southern extremity of the most northerly peninsula of Salonica, in Turkey, covered with monasteries, inhabited exclusively by monks of the Greek Church, and rich in curious manuscripts; the monks devote themselves to gardening, bee-culture, and other rural occupations, the more devout among them at one time celebrated for the edification they derived from the study of their own navels.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Athole, Sir John James Hugh Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of * Atlanta