PORT SAID 



4777 



PORTSMOUTH 



THE FARM 



Sugar Cane 



Coffee 



Tobacco 



Vegetables 



Bananas 



Milk 



Cattle sold 



Pineapples 



Corn 



Poultry raised 



PORTO RICO PRODUCTS CHART 

 Figures Based on U.S.Government Reports 



Millions of Dollars Annually 

 5 10 15 ZO 



THE FACTORY 



Railroad Cars repaired 



Shoes 



Lumber,Timber 



Printing t Publishing 



Whisky, ,etc. 



Bread .etc. 



Coffee 



Tobacco 



5ugar,Molasses 



occupied most of the island. Peace was signed 

 on August 16, 1898, and the island was evacu- 

 ated by the Spanish and ceded to the United 

 States. In partial return for the cession of 

 Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands the 

 United States gave Spain $20,000,000. B.M.W. 



Consult Wade's Our Little Porto Rican Cousin; 

 Verrill's Porto Rico, Past and Present; Rowe's 

 The United States and Porto Rico. 



Related Subjects. The reader who is inter- 

 ested in Porto Rico is referred to the following 

 articles in these volumes : 

 Banana San Juan 



Coffee Sugfar 



Molasses Tobacco 



Pineapple- 



PORT SAID, pohrt saheed', an important 

 seaport in Egypt, situated at the northern 

 (Mediterranean) entrance of the Suez Canal. 

 town was founded in 1859 as a coaling sta- 

 tion for >lnps passing through the canal, and 

 for several years after its foundation it was a 

 most unattnr'ivc place hot, dirty, noisy, and 

 with many undesirable inhabitants. In 1902, 

 however, it became a center of cotton export, 

 and two years later it benefited by the opening 

 of a standard railway to Cairo, which put it in 

 for a share in the outside commerce of 

 Egypt. New suburbs have been built, and so- 

 .-is well as economic conditions have greatly 

 iiuprovi-il. In 1911 Port Said had a population 

 of 54,400. It is the headquarters of the Gov- 

 ernor for the Suez Canal. Tho harbor 

 has been improved by tin . net ion of hum- 

 piers of concrete, large docks and a lighthouse 

 whose lamp sends out rays visible for over 

 twenty miles. 



PORTSMOUTH, pohrU'muth, a famous 

 English naval station and arsenal, on the south- 

 western part of Portsea Island, which is situ- 

 ated between two inlets of the English Channel, 

 about seventy-four miles southwest of London. 



Portsmouth 'station consists of four towns 

 Portsmouth, the headquarters of the garrison; 

 Portsea, having the naval forces and dock- 

 yards; Landport, the home of the workmen; 

 and Southsea, a residential town and fashion- 

 able summer resort. The entire community 

 constitutes a municipal, county and parliamen- 

 tary borough and covers 6,100 acres. In 1911 

 the population was 231,141. 



The fortifications, wharfage, dry docks and 

 harbor accommodations of Portsmouth are not 

 surpassed elsewhere in Great Britain. The 

 borough is a busy port, and in normal years 

 there is a good trade in coal, timber, fruit and 

 farm produce. Special features of interest are 

 the Church of Saint Thomas a Becket, dating 

 from the twelfth century; Victoria Park, with 

 a monument to Admiral Charles Napier; and 

 the recreation grounds of the naval forces and 

 the militia. Portsmouth is famed as the birth- 

 place of Charles Dickens, George Meredith and 

 Walter Besant. 



PORTSMOUTH, N. H., one of the county 

 seats of Rockingham County and the only sea- 

 port of the state, is situated about three miles 

 from the Atlantic coast, on the Piscataqua 

 River and on the Maine state border. D 

 is twelve miles northwest, Portland is fifty- 

 seven milt -s northeast, and Boston is 57 miles 

 southwest, by the Boston & Maine Railroad. 

 An hue communicates with towns 



south as far as Amesbury, and there is water 

 tr. i importation by ocean and river steamers. 

 The population, largely American, was 11.289 

 MI 1910; in 1916 it was 11,666 (Federal esti- 

 mate). The area of the city is about fifteen 

 square miles. 



Portsmouth has many interesting relics of 

 colonial days. Its delightful location, near pic- 

 turesque islands in the harbor, makes it a de- 

 sirable summer resort. It has three parks and 



