Pinos, ISLA DE, a Spanish island in the West Indies, south of Cuba, of which it is the largest dependency. It was discovered by Columbus in 1494, has an area of 1200 sq. m., part low and swampy, and part hilly (1500 feet), and is clothed with fine meadows and woods, and produces silver, quicksilver, and iron. It was once notorious as the resort of pirates. Pop. 2200.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 189
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