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Anguilla [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In zoology, an eel; also the name of a Mediterranean fish used for food, called also hospetus and atherina.

Anguilla Encyclopedia Britannica

ANGUILLA, or Snake Island, a small British West Indian island, one of the Lesser Antilles, situated 8 miles north of the island of St Martin, in lat. 18° 12' N., and long. 63° 8' W. Its chief products are salt, which is manufactured from a lake in the interior, sugar, cotton, maize, and tobacco, but the soil is comparatively barren, and there is a great deficiency of water in the island. Population, 3000.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, p. 46
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