[Icc-avr] Data table question

[Ira]

I have an old project based on a 8 pin PIC that has a 1200 byte data 
table I need to update it and add a second copy of that table and it 
doesn't seem that Microchip makes an 8 pin processor with 8K of 
flash. Atmel to the rescue!  But how do I access that string:

can I just do something like this?

_flash char data[] = "dlkflsdjflds"

where the stuff after the equal is 1200 characters long and then 
reference it with

   data[1100]

It would just as easy to do it with 5 strings of 256 bytes it that 
would work better in the world of  ICCAVR.

On the PIC I just had 80 rows starting with dt followed by 16 numbers 
which worked peachy but it's less clear how to do that here.

And if it matters, the tables are generated by a separate application 
and need to be #included into the code by the end user.

Ira