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Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f the coast sugar-cane, cotton,vanilla, tobacco, oranges, and coffee are culti-vated. The maguey plant is one of the chiefproducts of the district of Tequila. The annualoutput of sugar is 11,000 tons of the raw, and15,000 tons refined. The capital of the state,Guadalajara (q.v.), has become in recent yearsone of the chief manufacturing centres in Mex-ico, producing large quantities of manta, or un-bleached cotton, and leather goods. More than$300,000 Mexican silver is appropriated annu-ally for the maintenance of schools, which areattended by 31,725 pupils. Private and churchschools have an attendance of 14,106. The popu-lation of the state in 1900 was 1,137,311. Jallao, a West Indian market-name forthe margate-fish (q.v.). Jamaica, ja-maka, the largest of the Brit-ish West India Islands. It occupies the centralposition in the Antillean region, being nearlyequidistant from Florida and the northern pointof South America; from the mouths of theOrinoco and Galveston; from the head of the
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JAMAICA (iulf of Honduras, on the west, and St. Thomas,on tin- <.-.i^t. lis greatest length is 144 units;greatest breadth, 40 miles; ana, 4,200 to 4,21ssquare miles. The eastern part of the islandhas, as its most commanding feature, the BlueMountain range (highest peak 7,360 feet). The centre and west, an elevated plateau of later geologic formation, show the characteristic An- tillean limestone, and, more perfectly here thanelsewhere in the West Indies, the extraordinaryresults of exposure of that soluble material tothe tropical rainfall. This upland plain, hy theaction of the elements, has been carved intohills, basins, called cockpits,8 500 feet or morein depth, and much larger and deeper valleys,in which the plantations are situated, and fromwhich the numerous streams often find theirway to the sea by underground passages. Oneof these depressions, the Clarendon Valley(drained through a canon), is 25 miles wide and50 miles long; another, St.-Thomas-in-the-Vale,is circular in for

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