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POTOSI , a See also:city of See also:Bolivia, See also:capital of the See also:department of Potosi, 47 M. (See also:direct) S.W. of See also:Sucre, or 88 m. by the See also:post-road. Pop. (1906, estimate), 23,450. Potosi stands on a barren See also:terrace on the See also:northern slope of the Cerro Gordo de Potosi, 12,992 ft. above See also:sea-level, and is one of the highest towns in the See also:world. The famous cerro from which its name is taken rises above the See also:town to a height of 15,381 ft., a barren, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white-capped See also:cone honeycombed with See also:mining shafts. The town is regularly laid out with streets See also:crossing each other at right angles. The See also:smoke-begrimed buildings, many of which are unoccupied and in ruins, are commonly of See also:adobe. A large plaza forms the conventional centre, around which are grouped various religious edifices, the See also:government See also:house, town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, See also:national See also:college, the old " royal See also:mint " dating from 1585, and the See also:treasury. The city has a massive, See also:plain See also:cathedral, which in See also:part See also:dates from See also:early colonial times, and in part from the closing years of See also:Spanish See also:rule. The See also:water See also:supply is derived from a costly See also:system, of reservoirs and aqueducts constructed by the Spanish government during the years of the city's greatest prosperity. There are 27 of these artificial lakes, and the aqueducts originally numbered 32, some of which are no longer serviceable. Rough See also:mountain roads and See also:pack animals are the only means of transportation to and from Potosi, but a railway from See also:Oruro to Tupiza via Potosi, forming part of the projected See also:Pan-See also:American route, was contracted for in 1908. In 1611 the See also:population of Potosi was reported to be 16o,000, which probably included the whole mining See also:district. A part of the diminution since then is explained by the fact that the See also:great See also:majority of the mines on the cerro have been abandoned.
The See also:foundation of the city dates from 1547, two years after the first See also:discovery of See also:silver on the cerro by an See also:Indian See also:herder named Gualci. See also:Charles V. conferred upon it the See also:title of " See also:villa imperial." From 1545 to 1800 the See also:crown tax of one-fifth upon the See also:mineral product amounted to £32,600,000, showing an acknowledged output of £163,000,000. The actual output, however, must have been much greater, as See also:Spain was flooded with See also:contraband silver, and there was a large See also:trade in it at La See also:Plata ports, whence it was taken to See also:Brazil and See also:Portugal. The See also:total output to 1864 has been estimated at more than £400,000,000, but the See also:annual output at the beginning of the loth See also:century barely exceeded 400,000 ozs. The struggle for See also:independence began in Potosi on the 9th of See also:November 1810, but the Spanish forces succeeded in retaining See also:possession down to 1822.
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