Virginia

Virginia, one of the United States of America, a State somewhat larger than Scotland, between Maryland and North Carolina, so named by its founder Sir Walter Raleigh in honour of Queen Elizabeth; is divided from West Virginia by the Appalachians; it is well watered; the soil, which is fertile, yields the finest cotton and tobacco, and minerals, particularly coal and iron, are abundant; the largest city is Richmond, with flour-mills.

Population (circa 1900) given as 1,655,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)