Eubœa, the largest of the Grecian Isles, skirts the mainland on the SE., to which it is connected by a bridge spanning the Talanta Channel, 40 yards broad; it is about 100 m. in length; has fine quarries of marble, and mines of iron and copper are found in the mountains; Chalcis is the chief town.
Population (circa 1900) given as 82,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Etty, William * Euclid of Alexandria