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Volume 5 · 47 words · 1797 Edition

a famous pharos or light-house of France, in Guienne, at the mouth of the river Girond. The architecture is extremely fine; and is placed there to hinder vessels from running on the sand-banks at the mouth of the river. W. Long. 1° 9'. N. Lat. 45° 36'.