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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 769 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DALLAS , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Dallas county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., about 220 M. N.W. of See also:Houston, on the E. See also:bank of the Trinity See also:river. Pop. (1880) 10,358; (1890) 38,067; (1900) 42,638, of whom 9035 were negroes and 3381 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 92,104. See also:Area, about 15 sq. m. Dallas is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the Gulf, See also:Colorado & See also:Santa Fe, the Houston & Texas Central, the See also:Missouri, See also:Kansas & Texas, the St See also:Louis See also:South-western, the Texas & New See also:Orleans, the Trinity & Brazos Valley, and the Texas & Pacific See also:railways, and by interurban electric railways to Fort See also:Worth and See also:Sherman. The See also:lower channel of the Trinity river has been greatly improved by the Federal See also:government; but in. 19o8 the river was not navigable as far as Dallas.

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