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SANTAREM , a See also:city of See also:Brazil in the See also:state of Path, on the right See also:bank of the Tapajos, near its entrance into the See also:Amazon. Pop. (1890) of the See also:town and municipio, 12,062. It is one of the most important towns of the Amazon between Path and See also:Manaos, and is a See also:port of See also:call for all See also:river steamers, and a station on the Amazon See also:cable See also:line. The See also:national See also:government has made it a station in its See also:system of wireless telegraphy in the Amazon valley. Seen from the river the town is attractive in See also:appearance, and consists of a See also:European (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) and an See also:Indian See also:quarter, the latter of See also:palm-thatched huts. Ruins remain of a fort built in colonial times to protect the See also:population against hostile See also:Indians. Its See also:principal public buildings are a municipal 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 and tribunal, a large municipal warehouse, a See also:market (1897), See also:theatre and two churches. The productions of the neighbourhood are cacao, Brazil nuts, See also:rubber, See also:tobacco, See also:sugar-See also:cane and See also:cattle; and the See also:rivers furnish an abundance of See also:fish, which are cured here at the See also:season of See also:low-See also:water, when turtle eggs are gathered up stream for the manufacture of oil and See also:butter. The Tapajos is navigable for steamers to the rapids, 170 M. above Santarem, and for small boats nearly to See also:Diamantino, Matto Grosso, and a considerable See also:trade comes from Matto Grosso and the settlements along its See also:banks. After the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War a See also:colony of Americans settled in the vicinity, but were unsuccessful in See also:founding a permanent colony. Santarem was founded by a Jesuit missionary in 1661 as an Indian aldeia, and became a city in 1848.
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