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PONCE , a seaport and the second largest See also:

city of See also:Porto Rico, the seat of See also:government of the See also:Department of Ponce, on the See also:south See also:coast, about 50 M. (84 M. by the military road) S.W. of See also:San Juan. Pop. (1899), 27,952, of whom 2554 were negroes and 9942 of mixed races; (1910), 35,027. It is served by the See also:American Railroad of Porto Rico, by a railway to See also:Guayama (1910), and by steamboats from numerous ports; an old military road connects it with San Juan. Ponce consists of two parts: Ponce, or the city proper, and Ponce See also:Playa, or the seaport; they are separated by the Portuguese See also:River and are connected by an electric See also:street railway. Ponce Playa is on a spacious See also:bay and is accessible to vessels See also:drawing 25 ft. of See also:water; Ponce is 2 in. inland at the interior margin of a beautiful See also:plain, with hills in the See also:rear rising to a height of loon to 2000 ft. The city is supplied with water by an See also:aqueduct about 2 M. See also:long. There are two attractive public squares in the See also:heart of the city: Plaza See also:Principal and Plaza de See also:las Delicias. Among prominent public buildings are the city See also:hall, the See also:custom-See also:house, the See also:Pearl See also:theatre, several churches—See also:Roman See also:Catholic (including a finely decorated See also:cathedral) and See also:Protestant; St See also:Luke's See also:hospital and insane See also:asylum, an asylumfor the See also:blind, a ladies' asylum, a See also:home for the indigent and aged, and a military See also:barracks. At the See also:Quintana See also:Baths near the city are thermal springs with medicinal properties. The surrounding See also:country is devoted chiefly to the cultivation of See also:sugar See also:cane, See also:tobacco, oranges and cacao, and to the grazing of See also:cattle.

Among the manufactures are sugar, See also:

molasses, See also:rum, and See also:ice, and prepared See also:coffee for the See also:market. Ponce, named in See also:honour of Ponce de See also:Leon, was founded in 1752 upon the site of a See also:settlement which had been established in the preceding See also:century, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1848, and was made a city in 1878.

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