Jeddah, a town on the Red Sea, 65 m. W. of Mecca, of which it is the port, where the pilgrims disembark for the holy city; is a place of trade, less considerable than it once was.
Population (circa 1900) given as 46,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Jedburgh * Jeejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee