Celebes, an island in the centre of the Eastern Archipelago, third in size, in the shape of a body with four long limbs, traversed by mountain chains, and the greater part of it a Dutch possession, though it contains a number of small native states; it yields among its mineral products gold, copper, tin, &c.; and among its vegetable, tea, coffee, rice, sugar, pepper, &c.; capital. Macassar.
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,000,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Celæno * Céleste, Mme.