El Dorado (lit. the Land of Gold), a country which Orellana, the lieutenant of Pizzaro, pretended to have discovered in S. America, between the Amazon and Orinoco, and which he represented as abounding in gold and precious gems; now a region of purely imaginary wealth.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Eldon, John Scott, Lord * Eleanor