VALLADOLID, an ancient, large, and handſome city of Spain, in Old Caſtile, and capital of a principality of the ſame name, with a biſhop's ſee and an univerſity. It is ſurrounded with ſtrong walls, embellished with handſome buildings, large public ſquares, piazzas, and fountains; containing 11,000 houſes, with fine long and broad ſtreets, and high houſes, adorned with balconies. There is a ſquare in the middle of the city, ſurrounded with handſome brick houſes, having under them piazzas, where people may walk dry in all weathers. Within theſe piazzas merchants and tradeſmen keep their ſtore. All the houſes are of the ſame height, being four ſtories; and there are balconies at every window, of gilt iron. In the whole there are 70 monaſteries and nunneries; the fineſt of which is that of the Dominicans, remarkable for its church, which is one of the moſt magnificent in the city. The kings reſided a long while at this place; and the royal palace, which ſtill remains, is of very large extent, though but two ſtories high; within are fine paintings of various kinds, and at one of the corners a curious clock, made in the ſame manner as that of Straſburg. The environs of the city are a fine plain, covered with gardens, orchards, vineyards, and meadows. It is ſeated on the rivers Eſcarva and Peſuerga, in W. Long. 4. 47. N. Lat. 41. 42.