a strong town of Italy, in the duchy of Mantua, with the title of a duchy, remarkable for a battle between the French and Imperialists in 1734. It was ceded to the duke of Parma in 1748, by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. It is seated near the river Po, in E. Long. 10. 38. N. Lat. 44. 55.

GUATIMALA, the audience and province of, in New Spain, is above 750 miles in length, and 450 in breadth. It is bounded on the west by Soconjuco, on the north by Verapax and Honduras, on the east by Nicaragua, and on the south by the South sea. It abounds in chocolate, which they make use of instead of money. It has 12 provinces under it: and the native Americans, under the dominions of Spain, profess Christianity, mixed indeed with many of their own superstitions. There is a great chain of high mountains, which runs across it from east to west, and it is subject to earthquakes and storms. It is, however, very fertile; and produces besides chocolate, great quanti- Guatemala ties of cochineal and cotton, indigo, woad, balsam, and honey.