handsome town of Portugal, in Extremadura, seated on a mountain near the river Tajo, 55 miles N. E. from Lisbon, in a country very fertile in wheat, wine, and oil. They get in their harvest here two months after they have sown their corn. It was taken from the Moors in 1447. The population is estimated at 8000. W. Long. 8. 48. N. Lat. 39. 15.
Santa Augustine. See Augustine.