Usage examples (31)

• Abyla to the eminence in Africa on the opposite side of the strait, and both of these eminences formed the renowned Pillars of Hercules.
• The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla, or Apes 'Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.
• (Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta) -- by rending asunder the one mountain these two rocks are said to have formed, although now they are eighteen miles apart.
• It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is...