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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GOYA , a See also:

RIVER

river See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

PORT

port of See also:

Corrientes, See also:

ARGENTINE

Argentine See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic, the commercial centre of the See also:

south-western departments of the See also:

province and See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief town of a See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the same name, on a riacho or See also:

side channel of the See also:

PARANA

Parana about 5 M. from the See also:

main channel and about 120 M. S. of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Corrientes. Pop. (19o5, est.) 7000. The town is built on See also:

low ground which is subject to inundations in very wet See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather, but its streets are broad and the See also:

general See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of its edifices is See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good. Among its public buildings is a handsome See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

church and a See also:

NATIONAL

national normal school. The productions of the neighbourhood are chiefly See also:

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral, and its exports include See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, hides, See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool and oranges. Goya had an export of crudely-made See also:

CHEESE (Lat. caseus)

cheese See also:

long before the See also:

MODERN

modern cheese factories of the Argentine Republic came into existence. The See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place See also:

DATES

dates from 1807, and had its origin, it is said, in the See also:

trade established there by a See also:

SHIP

ship See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain and his wife Gregoria or Goya, who supplied passing vessels with See also:

BEEF (through O. Fr. boef, mod. boeuf, from Lat. bos, bovis, ox, Gr. f3oiir, which show the ultimate connexion with the Sanskrit go, gaits, ox, and thus with " cow")

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