an island in the English channel, fifteen miles west of the coast of Normandy, and eighty miles south of Portland in Dorsetshire: W. long. 2° 20', N. lat. 49° 20'.

New JERSEY, a province in North America, which may be bounded on the north by a line drawn from the river Delaware to Hudson's river, which divides it from New-York; by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east; by the same ocean on the south; and by Delaware bay and river, which separates it from Pennsylvania, on the west. It lies between 74° and 76° of W. long. and between 39° and 41° of N. lat. and is about 140 miles in length, and 60 in breadth. It is subject to Britain.