- HERCULES, THE PILLARS OF
- two mountains on the opposite sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, originally one, but fabled to have been separated by Hercules, Calpë on the Spanish coast and Abyla on the African.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
HERCULES, THE PILLARS OF
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