in Ancient Geography, a river of Spain rising in the territory of Laminium in the Hither Spain, and now spreading into lakes, again restraining its waters, or, burrowing itself entirely in the earth, is pleased often to reappear. It pours into the Atlantic (Pliny). Now Guadiana, rising in the south-east of New Castile, in a district commonly called Campo de Montiel, not far from the mountain Conqueira, from the lakes called las Lagunas de Guadiana, and then it is called Rio Roydera; and, after a course of six leagues, burying itself in the earth for a league, it then rises up again from three lakes, called los Ojos de Guadiana, near the village Villa Harta, five leagues to the north of Calatrava, and directs its course westward through New Castile, by Medelin, Merida, and Badajoz, where it begins to bend its course southwards, between Portugal and Andalusia, falling into the bay of Cadiz near Ayamonte.