PUDSEY 



Pudsey. Mnn. borough of York- 

 shire (W.R.), England. It is 3 m. 

 from Bradford, with a station on 

 the G.N. Rly. The industries in- 

 clude the manufacture of woollens 

 and worsteds, iron and brass found' 

 ing, and the making of machinery. 

 S. Lawrence's Church is a fine, 

 modern building, and the town has 

 a mechanics' institute and a public 

 park. The borough, which was in- 

 corporated in 1899, includes Ful- 

 neck, where a party of Moravians 

 settled in 1745. Market day. Sat. 

 Pop. 14,000. 



Pudukkottai. Native state and 

 town of Madras Presidency, India. 

 The state is entirely inland, and is 

 surrounded by the dists. of Tanjore, 

 Trichinopoly, Madura, and Ram- 

 nad. The rulership was given to a 

 Tondeman chief as a reward for 

 assistance against the French and 

 Haidar Ali in the 18th century. 

 The town is centrally situated, and 

 is the only urban area of any size. 

 Area, 1,178 sq. m. Pop., state, 

 412,000 ; town, 26,900. 



Puebla. Inland state of Mexico. 

 It occupies one of the highest parts 

 of Mexico, the centre being part 

 of the Anahuac plateau, and lies be- 

 tween the states of Vera Cruz on 

 the E. and Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, 

 Mexico, and Morelos on the W. 

 It is drained by the Atoyac, Sala- 

 do, and other streams. The soil 

 of the river valleys is fertile, and 

 rice, sugar, coffee, cotton, etc., are 

 cultivated. Cattle are reared, and 

 minerals found, but not exploited 

 to any extent. Cotton thread, 

 calicoes and printed goods are 

 manufactured in considerable 

 quantities at the capital, Puebla, 

 and at Atlixco. The area is 12,992 

 sq. m. Pop. 1,119,200. Prow. Pway- 

 blah. 



Puebla. Third largest city of 

 Mexico. The capital of the state 

 of Puebla, it stands on the Atoyac 

 river, 65 m. S.E. of Mexico city, at 

 an alt. of 7,200 ft. In the locality 

 are several lofty mountains, among 

 them Orizaba and Popocatepetl. 

 One of the oldest and finest cities 

 of the republic, Puebla has a 

 handsome cathedral, little inferior 

 to that in Mexico city, a state gov- 

 ernment building, the palace of 

 justice, a state college, an epis- 



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copal palace, the Palafoxiana 

 library, and an academy of fine 

 arts. The industries include iron- 

 founding, distilling, flour-milling, 

 and the manufacture of cotton and 

 woollen goods, tobacco, bricks, 

 glass, and boots and shoes. The 

 town is an important rly. junction 

 having connexions with Mexico 

 city, the port of Vera Cruz, and 

 Oaxaca and other towns of the S. 

 Founded in 1530, Puebla was occu- 

 pied by the Americans in 1847, 

 besieged by the French in 1862, and 

 captured by them in 1863. It 

 figured in the revolutionary troubles 

 of 1914-15. Pop. 96,100. 



Pueblo. City of Colorado, 

 U.S.A. The second largest city of 



PUEBLO 



Puebla, Mexico. 



General view of the 

 Top, right, facade 



Pueblo. Colorado. 



the state, and the co. seat of 

 Pueblo co., it stands on Arkansas 

 river, 122 m. S.S.E. of 

 Denver, and is served 

 by the Atchison, Tope- 

 ka, and Santa Fe and 

 other rlys. The city 

 possesses a state mineral 

 palace, containing a col- 

 lection of Colorado's 

 mineral productions. An 

 important distributing 

 centre, Pueblo is cele- * 

 brated for its iron and steel indus- 

 tries, and has large smelters, foun- 

 dries, and boiler works, great stock- 

 yards, and furniture and firebrick 

 factories. It is the market for the 

 cattle, alfalfa, and sugar-beets pro- 

 duced on the great irrigated dist. 

 which extends :>'>() 

 ! m.alongthe Arkan- 

 sas, and of which it 

 is the centre. In 

 the neighbourhood 

 are deposits of coal 

 and otherminerals, 

 and large oilfields. 

 Pueblo was found- 

 ed in 1859, and 

 became a city in 

 1873. Heavy loss 

 Ihe state mineral palace of life and great 



city, with the cathedral on the left, 

 of the cathedral 



damage to property were caused 

 by floods due to a cloudburst in 

 June, 1921. Pop. 43,000. 

 Pueblo Indians (Span., 

 village). Term denoting 

 various North American 

 Indian tribes in Arizona 



Pueblo Indians. Old hunter from 



New Mexico. Top, left, head of a 



chief from uio Grande 



