SITUATION AND EXTENT. 



Miles. 



Length 620 > 

 Breadth 5105 Detween 



Degrees. 



9 30 West and 3 20 East longitude, 

 36 and 44 North latitude. 



Containing 144,616 square miles, with 70 inhabitants to each. 



Names. ...Spain formerly included Portugal, and was known to the 

 ancients by the name of Iberia, and Hesperia, as well as Hispania. 

 It was, about the time of the Punic wars, divided into Citerior and 

 Ulterior : the Citerior contained the provinces lying north of the 

 river Iberus, or Ebro ; and the ulterior, which was the largest part, 

 comprehended all that lay beyond that river. The name of Hispania, 

 from which this country has received its different denominations in 

 the modern languages, has been supposed to be derived from His- 

 pan, one of its ancient kings, or from the town of Hispulis, the 

 modern Seville. Bochart derives it from the Phoenician word sftanjah^ 

 a rabbit ; those animals having been formerly very numerous here. 



Boundaries. ...It is bounded on the west by Portugal, and the 

 Atlantic Ocean ; by the Mediterranean on the east ; by the Bay of 

 Biscay, and the Pyrenean mountains, which separate it from France, 

 on the north ; and by the strait of the sea at Gibraltar on the south. 



Divisions.. ..Spain is divided into fourteen provinces, or districts 

 (almost all of which are styled kingdoms by the Spaniards) besides 

 islands in the Mediterranean. 



