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MONTSERRAT

Volume 3 · 54 words · 1771 Edition

mountain of Spain, in the province of Catalonia, twenty-one miles north-west of Barcelona, where there is a monastery and chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to which there is a great resort of pilgrims.

Montserrat is also one of the smallest of the Caribbean islands; it is situated about thirty miles south-west of Antigua.