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PAYSANDU, or PAISANOU

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PAYSANDU, or PAISANOU

PAYSANDU, or PAISANOU , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

RIVER

river See also:

PORT

port of See also:

URUGUAY (officially the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, and long locally called the Banda Oriental, meaning the land on the eastern side of the river Uruguay, from which the country takes its name)

Uruguay and See also:

capital of a See also:

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

department of the same'name, on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank of the Uruguay River about 214 M. N.W. of See also:

MONTEVIDEO, SAN FELIPE Y SANTIAGO DE

Montevideo, with which it is connected by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1908 estimate), 15,000. It has railway connexion with Rio See also:

NEGRO (from Lat. eager, black)

Negro and Montevideo to the See also:

south-See also:

east, and with See also:

SALTO

Salto and See also:

SANTA

Santa See also:

Rosa, on the Brazilian frontier, on the See also:

north; it is at the See also:

head of See also:

low See also:

WATER

water See also:

NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation on the Uruguay River, and is in See also:

REGULAR

regular steamer communication with Montevideo and Buenos Aires. There are some See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good public buildings, including two churches, a See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, a See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre and the See also:

government offices. Paysandu exports 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 and See also:

sheep and salted meats, hides, ox See also:

TONGUES, GIFT OF, or GLOSSOLALIA (yXwova, tongue, aXeiv, speak)

tongues, See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool and other See also:

animal products. There is a See also:

MEAT

meat-curing See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment (saladero) at Guaviyfl, in the vicinity. The town was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Pay, or Pai (See also:

FATHER

Father) Sandia, a See also:

PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest who settled there in 1772. It has suffered severely from revolutionary outbreaks, was bombarded by Rivera in 1846, and was partly destroyed in 1865 by a Brazilian See also:

BOMBARDMENT

bombardment, after which its gallant defenders, Leandro See also:

GOMEZ, DIOGO (DIEGO) (ff. 1440-1482)

Gomez and his companions, were butchered in See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

BLOOD

blood. The department of Paysandu—See also:

AREA

area 5117 sq. m.; pop. (1907, estimate), 54,097—is one of the richest stock-raising regions of the See also:

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

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