a seaport-town of Spain, province of Coruña, and one of the first naval arsenals in the kingdom, is situated on the N. arm of the bay of Betanzos, 12 miles N.W. of the town of Coruña. The harbour, which is one of the best in Europe, is deep, capacious, and secure; but the entrance, which is a strait about two miles in length at the narrowest part, only admits one ship at a time, and is commanded on either side by strong forts. The town is protected on the land side by a wall, on which 200 cannon might be mounted. The dockyard is divided into two parts, the outer being the smaller, and the whole occupying a space of more than 115,000 square yards. Behind the inner dock are the dwellings of the operatives, and in the N. angle are the foundries, rope-walks, and magazines. They are all, however, as well as the arsenal, in a neglected and ruinous condition. The old town is very irregular, but the new town is a parallelogram of seven streets in width by nine in length, intersecting each other at right angles, and has two squares, in one of which is a fountain, erected in 1812 in honour of Cosme Churruca, a naval officer, killed at Trafalgar. The Alameda, or public walk, is between the new town and the Astillero or dockyard. Ferrol contains two hospitals, three large churches, a monastery, consistory, prison, naval barracks, academies of navigation and mathematics, and has 16,641 inhabitants.