Adelaide, the capital of S. Australia, on the river Torrens, which flows through it into St. Vincent Gulf, 7 m. SE. of Port Adelaide; a handsome city, with a cathedral, fine public buildings, a university, and an extensive botanical garden; it is the great emporium for S. Australia; exports wool, wine, wheat, and copper ore.
Population (circa 1900) given as 133,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
A`delaar * Adelaide