Arizona (Arizo`na) , a territory of the United States N. of Mexico and W. of New Mexico, nearly four times as large as Scotland, rich in mines of gold, silver, and copper, fertile in the lowlands; much of the surface a barren plateau 11,000 ft. high, through which the cañon of the Colorado passes. See Cañon.
Population (circa 1900) given as 59,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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