Magdalen Islands
a small group near the center of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 54 miles N. W. of Cape Breton Island. The largest is Coffin's Island. The herring people are supported by by the lobster, cod, herring , and seal fisheries.
MAGDEBURG (mäg'de-börg), a city of Prussia, province of Saxony, on the Vol. VI-Cyc-F MAGELLAN Elbe, 74 miles S. W. of Berlin, and 50 miles E. S. E. of Brunswick; lat. 52° 8' N.; long. 11° 40′ E., a fortress of the first class, and from the recent improvement in its defenses one of the strongest in Europe; one of the most important commercial places of Prussia, it is divided into five parts: the Old Town, the New Market, and the Friedrichstadt, or tower fort, the New Town, and the quarter called Sudenburg. The most remarkable among its public buildings are the cathedral, containing the tomb of Otho the Great, the ducal palace, and the town hall. The citadel, on an island in the Elbe, serves also as a state prison, Baron Trenck and Lafayette having, among others, been confined in it. Manufactures considerable, consisting of silk, linen, cotton, and woolen fabrics, oil cloth, gloves, leather, tobacco, etc., with numerous tanneries, distilleries, etc. A large quantity of salt is made in the neighborhood. The transit and commission trade is very considerable. Magdeburg is a city of old date, having been mentioned as early as the reign of Charlemagne. It suffered greatly in the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries.
In 1806 it was taken by the French, and was annexed to the new kingdom of Westphalia by the treaty of Tilsit in 1807. It was restored to Prussia in 1814.
Pop. about 290,000.
MAGELLAN (ma-jel'an), the incorrect but generally received name of