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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

city and See also:

PORT

port of See also:

Brazil and See also:

capital of the See also:

state of Rio Grande do Norte, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the Rio Potengy, or Rio Grande do Norte, about 2 M. above its mouth. Pop. of the See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality (1890) 13,725. Natal is the starting-point of the Natal and Nova Cruz railway, and is a port of See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call for See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast-See also:

wise steamers, which usually See also:

ANCHOR (from the Greek ayrcvpa, which Vossius considers is from 6yi17 , a crook or hook)

anchor outside the See also:

bar. It is a stagnant, poorly built See also:

TOWN

town of one-storeyed houses and mud-walled cabins, with few public edifices and business houses of a better type. The only See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of See also:

note is the manufacture of See also:

cotton. The exports are chiefly See also:

SUGAR

sugar and cotton. Natal was founded in 1597 as a military See also:

POST

post to check an illicit See also:

trade in Brazil-See also:

wood. In 1633 it was occupied by the Dutch, who remained until 1654. It became the capital' of a See also:

province in 1820. In See also:

early See also:

WORKS

works it is sometimes termed Cidade dos Reis (City of the See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

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