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BURDEGALA

Volume 3 · 61 words · 1797 Edition

or Burdigala, (anc. geogr.) a trading port town of Aquitania, situated on a lake of the sea, formed by the mouth of the Garumna. It was a famous seat of the Muses, as appears by Auso- nius's book entitled Proserpina; and birth-place of Aufonius; now Bordeaux, capital of the Bourdelois, on the river Garonne. W. Long. 4° 54'. Lat. 44° 54'.