including Portugal, is a large peninsula of Europe, lying between 10° west and 3° east longitude, and between 36° and 44° north latitude, being about seven hundred miles in length from east to west, and about five hundred in breadth from north to south: it is bounded by the bay of Biscay, on the north; by the Pyrenean mountains, which separate it from France, on the north-east; by the Mediterranean sea, on the south-east; and by the Atlantic-ocean, on the west.

NEW SPAIN. See MEXICO.