Buffalo, a city of New York State, at the E. end of Lake Erie, 300 m. due NW. of New York; is a well-built, handsome, and healthy city; the railways and the Erie Canal are channels of extensive commerce in grain, cattle, and coal; while immense iron-works, tanneries, breweries, and flour-mills represent the industries; electric power for lighting, traction, &c., is supplied from Niagara.
Population (circa 1900) given as 256,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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