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PARAMARIBO

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARAMARIBO , the See also:

capital of Dutch See also:Guiana or Surinam . (see GUIANA), in 5° 44 30" N., 550 12' 54" W., 20 M. from the See also:sea on the right See also:bank of the Surinam, here a tidal See also:river nearly a mile broad and 18 ft. deep. Pop. (1905), 33,821. Built on a See also:plateau about 16 ft. above See also:low-See also:water level, Paramaribo is well-drained, clean and in See also:general healthy. The straight canals See also:running at right angles to the river, the broad, straight See also:tree-planted streets, the spacious squares, and the solid See also:plain public buildings would not be unworthy of a See also:town in the See also:Netherlands. The See also:Indian See also:village of Paramaribo became the site of a See also:French See also:settlement probably in 1640, and in 1650 it was made the capital of the See also:colony by See also:Lord See also:Willoughby of Parham. In 1683 it was still only a " cluster of twenty-seven dwellings, more than See also:half of them grog-shops," but by 17go it counted, more than a thousand houses. The town was partly burned down in 1821,, and again in 1832.

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