Montevideo, on the N. shore of the Rio de la Plata, 130 m. E. of Buenos Ayres; is the capital of Uruguay; a well-built town, with a cathedral, university, school of arts, and museum. The chief industries are beef-salting and shipping, though there is practically no harbour. Nearly half the population are foreigners.
Population (circa 1900) given as 215,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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