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CASTELLON DE LA PLANA

Volume 6 · 60 words · 1842 Edition

a city in the Spanish province of Valencia, about a mile from the sea-coast. It is well built, with broad and handsome streets, and contains six monasteries, two hospitals, and five poor-houses, with a population of 10,733 persons. The cultivation of hemp is much attended to, and some of the inhabitants are employed in weaving linen. Lat. 39. 52. N.