Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . gists have been connected with A.: Dr. Buckland wasborn liere, and Dr. Conybeare was lord of the manor, and vicar. AXMOUTH, a village at the mouth of tlie Axe, east Devon-shire. A mile east of A. occurred, in 1839, a landslip; an area 300feet wide, for three-quarters of a mile paralel to the shore, havingsunk 350 feet below the sea, with a great noise. The chasm thusformed became a lagoon, while the neighboring sea-bed rose 40feet. Rather more than a mile further east, occurred another butsmaller landslip in 1840. T
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . gists have been connected with A.: Dr. Buckland wasborn liere, and Dr. Conybeare was lord of the manor, and vicar. AXMOUTH, a village at the mouth of tlie Axe, east Devon-shire. A mile east of A. occurred, in 1839, a landslip; an area 300feet wide, for three-quarters of a mile paralel to the shore, havingsunk 350 feet below the sea, with a great noise. The chasm thusformed became a lagoon, while the neighboring sea-bed rose 40feet. Rather more than a mile further east, occurred another butsmaller landslip in 1840. The district around consists of green-sand strata. AXOLOTL, pronounced acliolatl {Gyrinus, or Axolotes edtdis),a remarkable animal, found in great abundance in some ofthe Mexican lakes, and particularly in the lake of Mexicoitself. It is a Batrachian (q. v.) reptile of the family oftheProteido or Perennibranchiate Batrachians in wliich the gils re-main during life, and the lungs are never sufl^ciently developedto maintain respiration by themselves. It is in general form very. Axolotl. like a fish; has a large and broad head; and tapers into a longcompressed tail, which has a thin membranous fin both on itsupper and its lower side. It has four legs, with toes not webbed;and on each side of the neclc tlie gills form three long branched orfeathered processes, which give it a very remaikable is brown, and mottled with small black s])ots. When fullgrown, it averages 8 or 9 inches in length, though sometimesmeasuring 16 inches. It is esteemed a great delicac-j in normally perennibranchiate creatures are capable, undercertain circumstances, of becoming salamandrine, losing theirgills, and so turning into AmUystomas. AXUM, once capital of an Ethiopian kingdom, is now In themodern Abyssinian province of Tigre. It lies mainly in ]). 2000. The former greatness of the city is testified by yet re-maining structures cut in granite, some of wliich have inscri
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