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CARDONA (perhaps the anc. Udura)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARDONA (perhaps the anc. Udura)  , a See also:town of See also:north-eastern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Barcelona; about 55 M . N.W. of Barcelona, on a See also:hill almost surrounded by the See also:river Cardoner, a See also:branch of the Llobregat . Pop . (Igloo) 3855 . See also:Cardona is a picturesque and old-fashioned town, with Moorish walls and citadel, and a 14th-See also:century See also:church . It is celebrated for the extensive See also:deposit of See also:rock See also:salt in its vicinity . The salt forms a See also:mountain See also:mass about 300 ft. high and 3 M. in circumference, covered by a thick See also:bed of a reddish-See also:brown See also:clay, and apparently resting on a yellowish-See also:grey See also:sandstone . It is generally more or less translucent, and large masses of it are quite transparent . The hill is worked like a mine; pieces cut from it are carved by artists in Cardona into images, crucifixes and many articles of an ornamental See also:kind .

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