Palos, a small Spanish port at the mouth of the Rio Tinto, and 5 miles SE. of Huelva. Once an important place, from whence Columbus started on his great voyage, it has now sunk to a village of 1200 inhabitants.
Palos
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 729
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