PORTO NOVO 



6274 



PORT PHILLIP 



Porto Maurizio, Italy. Promontory with the old town 

 and the harbour, from the road to Oneglia 



museum, and a Aw.x2K^_x\ undeveloped, 

 cable station. In anFy^^$?ai\ Rly- transport 

 the bay, Porto da j^/y^&^$^\ facilities are al- 

 Praia, an English fjB/y f ttlf Y\* \ mos *' confined to 

 fleet defeated a lufU zx!^-)]* ] ^ e coasta l r ly s -> 

 French one on vrw^^*fcW7/ which nearly en- 

 April 16, 1781. V^WKM circle the island. 

 Pop. 21,000. ^ST^^^r The ca P ital k 

 Porto Rico. ^^t-f/tfr San J uan ; other 

 Island in the W. Njr large towns being 

 Indies, a possession Porto Rico arms Ponce and Maya- 

 of the U.S.A. The , guez. Discovered 

 easternmost and by Columbus in 1493, the island 

 smallest of the was settled by Juan Ponce de 

 Greater Antilles, it Leon in 1510. It remained a 

 lies 75 m. E. of Spanish possession down to 1898, 

 Haiti, and measures when it was ceded to the U.S.A. 

 100m. by 38m. It by the treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 

 1898. Two years later civil 



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is crossed from 



70 m. by rly. S.W. of Genoa. E. to W. by mountain ranges, on government was established. An 

 Picturesquely placed on a pro- either side of which rich alluvial earthquake, Oct., 1918, killed over 

 rnontory, the old part of the town lands stretch down to the sea. The 100 persons, rendered thousands 

 is on a hill, while modern villas, rivers, which flow generally N. and homeless, and caused damage esti- 

 hotels, etc., line the shore. Sur- 

 rounded by olive groves, it exports 

 an excellent oil. It has a fine 

 domed church (1799). Included 

 in the commune is Oneglia, 2 m. 

 N.E. Both towns are frequented 

 for their sea-bathing. Pop. (com- 

 mune) 8,000. 



Porto Novo. Harbour of Mad- 

 ras Presidency, India, on the 

 Coromandel coast, in S. Arcot dist. 

 It is at the mouth of the small 

 Vellar river on the Madras- 

 Tuticorin main rly. The settle- 

 ment was originally made by the 

 Portuguese in the latter part of 

 the 16th century. Here Sir Eyre 

 Coote defeated Haidar Ali in 1781. 



PORTO RICO 



English Miles 



Porto Rico. Map of the island in the West Indies, ceded to the U.S.A. in 1898 



Pop. 15,800. 



Porto Novo, Seaport and 

 capital of Da> /me, French W. S. from the centre of the island, are mated at 800,000. Area, 3,606 

 Africa. The residence of the numerous, among the principal sq. m. Pop. 1,118,000, about two- 

 lieutenant-gof/,-rnor, it is situated being the Loiza, Arecibo, Plata, and thirds being whites. 



at the E. eoi of a lagoon which is Bayamon. 

 in communication with the other 



Portpatrick. Seaport and 



25,000, 180 being Europeans. 

 Porto Praia OR VILLA 



The elevated parts of the island watering-place of Wigtownshire, 

 coastal lagoons. A narrow-gauge are covered with fine forests of Scotland. It is 7 m. from Stran- 

 rly. goes, 50 m., jto Pob6. Pop. palms, sandal- wood, cedar, willow, raer on the Portpatrick and Wig- 



and various fruit trees. The very townshire Rly., and is 21 m. from 

 DA fertile soil produces sugar, coffee, the coast of Ireland. About 1600 it 

 PRAIA. Portuguese port, capital of cotton, bananas, and tobacco, and was made a station for the packet 

 the island of Santiago, Cape Verde cattle-rearing is an important in- service to Ireland, but this ceased 

 Islands. Situated on the S. coast dustry. Exports of fruit are in- in 1849. In 1821-43 large harbour 

 of the island, with a good har- creasing rapidly. Gold and other works were constructed at a cost of 

 bour, it contains a palace of the minerals exist, but are little ex- 500,000, but these were allowed 

 governor-general, an observatory, ploited, and manufactures are to fall into ruin, as the expected 



trade did not develop. It has a 

 little trade, and is visited as a sea- 

 side resort. Pop. 1,100. 



Port Phillip. Harbour of 

 Victoria, Australia. The largest in- 

 dentation on the Victorian coast, 

 it is 30 m. from N. to S., and 30 m. 

 across at its widest part. Melbourne 

 and its suburbs are on the N., and 

 Geelong on the W. Discovered in 



Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. Town and harbour from the west 



1802, and used for three months as 

 a penal settlement in 1S03, it was 

 first colonised in 1835, and gave 

 its name to Port Phillip dist., 

 which in 1851 became Victoria. 

 See Melbourne. 



