Biscay, Bay of, a bay in the Atlantic, extending from Cape Ortegal, in Spain, to Cape Finisterre, in France, and 400 m. broad, of depth varying from 20 to 200 fathoms, and, under SW. winds particularly, one of the stormiest of seas.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Biron, Duc de * Bischof, Karl Gustav