Arkansas (Arkans`as) , one of the Southern States of America, N. of Louisiana and W. of the Mississippi, a little larger than England; rich in metals, grows cotton and corn.
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,128,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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