Atlas (At`las) , a Titan who, for his audacity in attempting to dethrone Zeus, was doomed to bear the heavens on his shoulders; although another account makes him a king of Mauritania whom Perseus, for his want of hospitality, changed into a mountain by exposing to view the head of the Medusa.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Atlan`tis * Atlas Mountains