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CASTILE

Volume 4 · 228 words · 1797 Edition

(New) or THE KINGDOM OF TOLEDO, a province of Spain, bounded on the north by Old Castile, on the east by the kingdoms of Arragon and Valencia, on the south by that of Murcia and Andalusia, and on the west by the kingdom of Leon. It is divided into three parts; Argaria to the north, Mancha to the east, and Sierra to the south. Madrid is the capital. Both these provinces are very well watered with rivers, and the air is generally pure and healthy; but the land is mountainous, dry, and uncultivated, through the laziness of the inhabitants. The north part produces fruits and wine, and the south good pastures and fine wool. These provinces are divided by a long chain of mountains, which run from east to west.

(Old), a province of Spain, with the title of a kingdom. It is about 192 miles in length, and 115 in breadth; bounded on the south by New Castile, on the east by Arragon and Navarre, on the north by Biscay and Asturia, and on the west by the kingdom of Leon. Burgos is the capital town.

CASTILE-de-Oro, a large and fertile country in South America, lying to the west of Oroonoko. It comprehends eight governments; viz. Terra Firma, Proper Carthagena, St Martha, Rio de la Hacha, Caflillan Venifuela, New Andalusia, Popayan, and the new kingdom of Granada.