Port Elizabeth, the third largest town and chief trading centre of Cape Colony; stands on Algoa Bay, 85 m. SW. of Grahamstown; it has magnificent public buildings, parks, and squares, a college, library, and museum. It is the chief port in the E. of the colony and for Natal, the principal exports being wools, hides, and ostrich feathers.
Population (circa 1900) given as 25,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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