History for ready reference, Volume 1, A-Elba
chapter 3, section 24.
See, also, ALOD, and ETHEL.
ADELAIDE, The founding and naming of.
See AUSTRALIA: A. D. 1800-1840.
ADELANTADOS.-ADELANTAMIENTOS.
"Adelantamientos was an early term for gubernatorial districts [in Spanish America, the governors bearing the title of Adelantados], generally of undefined limits, to be extended by further conquests."
_H. H. Bancroft, History of the Pacific States,