62 ' GEOGRAPHY. 



House of Bourbon (now Isabella 11. , born 1830). The constitutional 

 government dates from 1837, although it experienced important modifi- 

 cations in 1844. The Cortes or Chamber of Lawgivers is divided into 

 a Senate and a Congress. 



The revenues of the state amounted, in 1848, to 1,257,780,000 reals, or 

 about 62,890,000 dollars. 



The army consists of 99,000 troops of the line. The navy, in 1846, 

 embraced three ships of the line, six frigates, five corvettes, six brigs, two 

 brig-galliots, six galliots, six steamships, &c. 



Divisions. Since 1833, the monarchy, with the exception of the Canary 

 Islands, has been divided into forty-nine provinces, which, in the following 

 exposition, we shall classify under the arrangement which prevailed prior 

 to 1833. They have most generally names similar to those of their 

 capitals, for which reason the latter are mentioned only when the name is 

 different. 



I. New Castile. 1. Madrid, pop. 320,000, capital and seat of government 

 of the same name, situated on the Manzanares, pop. 200,000 2. Toledo, 

 pop. 282,000. 3. Ciudad-Real (formerly la Mancha), pop. 278,000. 4. 

 Cuen^a, pop. 335,000. 5. Guadalaxara, pop. 159,000. 



II. Old Castile. 6. Burgos, pop. 224,000, 7. Logrono, pop. 148,000. 

 8. Santander, pop. 169,000. 9. Avila, pop. 138,000. 10. Segovia, 135,000. 

 Soria, pop. 216,000. 



III. Leon. 12. Valladolid, pop. 185,000. 13. Palencia, pop. 148,000. 

 14. Leon, pop. 267,000. 15. Salamanca, pop. 210,000. 16. Zamora, pop. 

 159,000. 



IV. Asturia. 17. Oviedo, pop. 435,000. 



V. GaUcia,Wi\h 1,472,000 inhabitants. 18. Corufia, pop. 436,000. 19. Lugo, 

 pop. 357,000. 20. Orense, pop. 319,000. 21. Ponte-vedra, pop. 360,000. 



VI. Estremadura. 22: Badajoz, 306,000. 23. Caceres, pop. 241,000. 



VII. Andalusia. 24. Cordova, pop. 315,000. 25. Jaen, pop. 267,000 

 26. Granada, pop. 371,000. 27. Almeira, pop. 235,000. 28. Malaga, pop. 

 390,000. 29. Seville, pop. 367,000. 30. Cadiz, pop. 325,000. 31. Huelva, 

 pop. 133,000. 



VIII. Murcia. 32. Murcia, pop. 284,000. 33. Albacete, pop. 191,000. 



IX. Valencia. 34. Valencia, pop. 389,000. 35. Alicante, pop. 369,000. 

 36. Castellon de la Plana, pop. 199,000. 



X. Catalonia. 37. Barcelona, pop. 442,000. 38. Tarragona, pop. 

 234,000. 39. Lerida, pop. 151,000. 40. Gerona, pop. 214,000. 



XL Arragon. 41. Saragossa, pop. 301,000. 42. Huesca, pop. 215,000. 

 43. Teruel, pop. 218,000. j: 



XII. Navarre. 44. Pamplona, 231,000. 



XIII. Biscay. 45. Guipuzcoa, pop. 109,000, cap. San Sebastian. 46. 

 Alava, pop. 68,000, cap. Vittoria. 47. Biscaya, pop. 111,000, cap. 

 Bilboa, 



XIV. 48. The Balearic Islands, with 229,000 inhabitants; Majorca, 

 pop. 150,000, cap. Palma ; Minorca, pop. 30,000, cap. Port Mahon ; Ivica 

 or Iv'i-za, cap. Ivica ; Formentera, &:c. 



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