Comacchio, a walled town, 30 m. SE. of Ferrara; famous for fish, specially eel-culture in a large lagoon adjoining, 90 in. in circumference.
Population (circa 1900) given as 10,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Colvin, Sidney * Combe, Andrew, M.D.