Adal is the name of the flat and barren country lying between the Abyssinian plateaux and the Red Sea, from Massowa to the Bay of Tajurra, its greatest width being 300 miles. The native tribes are of the same stock as the Danakil, and are Mohammedans.
Adal
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 43
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